Terminal Multi-Line Command Editor

Terminal Multi-Line Input with Edit, Insert, Delete, Print extension for IRIS
IRIS and Caché have just single command lines in terminal available
This Multi-Line Commands Editor also will execute the Multi-line Commands.
In addtiion, it is independent of access to %SYS and can be installed in any namespace

This broad range of terminal emulations required navigation without any <ESC> sequences
as some of them are quite restrictive on input. So it got a little bit feeling like vi.

After the first start you can trigger a system-wide installation in %SYS as %zme
in combinatin with a Command Extention ZME for simplified use (added to %ZLANGC00.mac)

At first run and if not a Command Extention just call it from terminal command prompt

  USER>do ^zme  

Usage

at the prompt USER:zme>1
enter commands as usual in terminal
trigger execution by an empty line with <enter>

These Editor Commands are implemented:

    USER>zme
Entering multi line mode.

<enter> => Run multi-line command.

. => Stop multi-line mode

.i, .i<line> => Insert new empty line after <line>

.d, .d<line>, .d<linefrom>:<lineto> => Delete lines

.p, .p<line>, .p<linefrom>:<lineto> => Show lines

.? => show this help
.e, .e<line> => Edit line

***** line editing commands *****

.+ => move edit cursor forward

.- => move edit cursor backward

.nn => move edit cursor to position nn

.r => set mode replace at cursor

.i => set mode insert after cursor

.d => delete character at cursor

<enter> => teminate line editing

<any character> => replace / insert after cursor

.. => input single .

***** line editing commands *****
USER:zme>1

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