For embedding in applications Phedit has the following attributes:
To satisfy the needs of programmers, software engineers and network or system administrators, Phedit comes with features such as cut, copy and paste using paragraph or columnar blocks, changing blocks to upper case, lower case or capitalizing, single key access to online help, search and replace, macros, configurable keys, multiple windows, word wrapping, bracket matching, autosave (you specify the number of minutes) and others.
Phedit was originally ported from QWEdit, an editor written for QNX Windows by Klondike Software. It has been enhanced very much since it was ported.
The best that can be done is to give an explanation of how Phedit works as delivered from the factory and then give details about Phedit in the form of reference material.
The section called Default User Interface describes Phedit as it is when run with no configuration.
The section called Default Menus goes through all of the items on the default menus that are built into Phedit.
You will see frequent mention troughout this documentation of something called Primitives. For details on just what those are see the section called Primitives.