XAP alters a few Xedit session characteristics, and the entire screen becomes mouse clickable. A menu across the top gives quick access to instructions, help, a bookmark facility, 63 mouse-controlled subcommands, libraries of code fragments which can be inserted with a mouse click, and several other useful functions. Scroll by clicking on the prefix area (yes, prefix commands still work).

Start by editing any file, and then enter the command "xap" on the Xedit command line.

Note that the top and bottom lines have been reserved by XAP. The top line is the XAP Menu Bar. The bottom line is the XAP Status Line. That red number to the right on line 2 is the XAP Timer, which gives you an idea of how long it takes XAP to perform a function. And if your regular PROFILE XEDIT defines some reserved lines on the screen (as in the example below), you can now click on those labels instead of pressing the PF keys.

Selecting the Menu option from the XAP Menu Bar pops up a table of functions and file fragment libraries. Add, delete, copy, move, clear or modify characters, phrases, lines, columns, or blocks of lines by clicking with your mouse. 63 useful functions!

Selecting a file fragment library pops up a list of specific file fragments from which to choose. Select a fragment with one click; insert it into your file with a second click. Build and change fragment libraries on the fly.

XAP makes editing files quicker and more accurate. You spend more time thinking about what you want to do, and less time pressing keys.

--rick ellis