The features of Qedit that I liked had more to do with editing functions and keybindings than suspending any processes, and running concurrent applications is s

The features of Qedit that I liked had more to do with editing functions and keybindings than suspending any processes, and running concurrent applications is sort of a non issue in BSD/Linux. The default Qedit settings made columnar editing as easy as linear editing... You could copy/paste in a vertical manner, as well as the more normally seen horizontal method. This facilitates ease of copying/pasting/deleting blocks of code without picking up, or affecting, other portions of code, whereas horizontal oriented block editing does not allow multi-line editing within set columns. You get every column within a set of copied lines even though you only want a smaller block of text. Perhaps emacs can do column based edits, or some other editor?