I am not as interested in memory usage as I am in ease of programing. I understand that using database codes may not be as efficient, but unless you are really approaching memory limits, using individual codes seems like the way I will go. Unless you have an extremely complicated system, memory usage and speed of macro execution is really not the primary concern.

Personally, I like the paradigm from the old 850 editor, although I understand that may follow the correct current programming paradigm.

By the way, I used to write assembler code for huge programs for 16 bit computers, so I am well aware of memory usage issues. I understand well the tradeoffs of complexity of coding versus resource usage.

Thanks for your comments. I think I am all set on the direction to take for my particular situations.