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Stop or Start Editing is like EDITC
Save Edits (As) is like SAVE. You can then continue editing.
Undo is like OOPS. Redo 'undoes' your undo.
Cut is like DELETE, but you can Paste the lines back in if you change your mind.
Builder is like the ARC command BUILD, only much slower and not quite as powerful.
Draw Survey does not have a direct analogue in ArcEdit, but it can be approximated by using COORD KEY and then ADD, and entering survey coordinates in the format 2 p: n33^12'30"e 320.5 -- you can also enter survey coordinates using COGO (TRAVERSE, etc.). You need to enter a survey text file using the Survey Entry Dialog which you can launch from the Main Menu. Enter the survey, save it, then click the 'Draw Survey' button on the Parcel Editor and choose the file you entered.
Snapping is nearly identical to NODESNAP CLOSEST * and NODESNAP OFF although the ArcView snapping environment can behave slightly differently. It is best to zoom in and use the smallest possible snapping radius to avoid undesirable effects, and to turn snapping off when not in use. ArcView doesn't generally let you snap a single line's two endpoints together; you need to split the line first to close it into an island. Several tools on the dialog will turn snapping off when used.
Markers (on the Options dialog) is kind of like DRAWE NODE ERRORS; it turns the dangle and pseudonode markers on and off. It is recommended that you leave it on unless it slows you down too much. The Parcel Editor dialog also makes the selected arcs draw as yellow (or whatever the selection color is currently)--ArcView usually draws selected features in an editable theme as their normal color but with 'selection boxes' or 'handles' around them. When Markers is checked, the display will redraw very frequently, which can be slow, but it makes sure that the selection and node markers are kept up to date.
Advanced (also on the Options dialog) toggles between user levels--regular users (leave it unchecked) get more helpful message boxes, advanced users get fewer, which is faster but can be confusing. Leave this unchecked until you are very familiar with the dialog.
The Editing panel contains the tools you need for editing polylines:
Select Feature combines many commands like SEL, SEL MANY, UNSEL, and so on. Click on features to select them, drag a rectangle to select a group of features, hold down Shift and click on several features to select many and hold down Shift and click on a selected feature to unselect it. As in ArcEdit, most tools and buttons operate on the selected set of features.
Clear Selected Features is like UNSEL ALL. If you hold down Shift and click it, it's like SEL ALL; if you hold down Ctrl, it's like NSEL.
The Draw Line tool is like ADD (after COORD MOUSE), except you double click to end a line and you don't need to do anything special to add the first 'node.'
Vertex Edit puts you into a special selection/editing mode that gives you the ability to edit vertices; it gives you the functionality of VERTEX MOVE, VERTEX ADD, and VERTEX DELETE. The way it works is different; you click on a line segment to add a vertex along it; click and drag an existing vertex to move it (this is incredibly useful for snapping to another line's node), and hold the mouse over a vertex and hit the delete key to delete it. In this mode, the way the lines look is very different (they won't be yellow (or whatever the selection color is) and you won't see the node markers--instead each vertex will have a hollow black box around it). When you set the Snapping on, this tool will become selected automatically. To get out of this mode, click on the Select Feature tool (these two tools activate ArcView's two selection modes).
Splitter is like SPLIT, except you have to have to specify whether you want to split the line at a vertex or along a segment. To split along a segment you need to drag a line segment across the selected line, crossing it at the point where you want to split it.
Rotator works just like ROTATE; click on it and you will be prompted for the number of degrees to rotate, then click on the display to indicate the pivot point.
Mover works like MOVE, except you have to choose if you want to have one of the selected arc's nodes snap to an unselected arc's node or not. Mover, Splitter, Draw Survey, and Rotator all turn Snapping off so as not to have vertices snap unexpectedly.
Grab lines from background theme is a substitute for SNAP (to background themes). Instead of snapping lines to a background theme, you can simply bring those lines (or polygon boundaries) into the edit theme and manipulate them from there. It also functions like PUT and GET.
Mark Intersections will tell you where lines intersect--it only works on the selected lines and can be very slow for large numbers of lines. In ARC/INFO, the BUILD function will warn you about intersections.
Select Previous/Next allows you to select the previous or next line in the order of the attribute table. This is especially useful when you have two lines right on top of each other that you cannot select individually; click one of these to select only one of them.
The rest of the tools and buttons are for zooming.
Full Extent is like MAPE DEF; it zooms to the extent of the edit coverage. If you hold down shift and click it, it will zoom to the extent of all themes in the view.
Zoom to Sel works like MAPE SEL.
Saved Extent allows you to save one extent and zoom to it later; Shift-click Saved Extent when you are at the extent you want to save and click Saved Extent any time you wish to return to that extent.
Zoom In and Zoom Out (the buttons with arrows) zoom slightly in or out (like pressing Ctrl-I or Ctrl-O in ArcEdit).
The Zoom In tool (magnifying glass with a plus sign) allows you to zoom to a user-specified rectangle that you drag on the display (this is like pressing Ctrl-E in ArcEdit).
The Zoom Out tool (magnifying glass with a minus sign) allows you to zoom out a distance relative to a rectangle you drag on the display.
The Pan tool allows you to change the area shown by the display (but not the scale) by 'dragging' the display around. This is similar to clicking Ctrl-A in ArcEdit, but you use the mouse to drag the display instead of just clicking once.
The Measure tool works like DIST.
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