LSE provides the following commands for creating and manipulating language elements: DEFINE ALIAS [/LANGUAGE=name] specifies the alias name to be defined in the specified language. DEFINE LANGUAGE name specifies characteristics for the current language. DEFINE PLACEHOLDER [/LANGUAGE=name] specifies placeholder characteristics for the specified language. DEFINE TOKEN [/LANGUAGE=name] specifies token characteristics for the specified language. DELETE ALIAS [/LANGUAGE=name] cancels the effect of a DEFINE ALIAS command used for the specified language. DELETE LANGUAGE name cancels the effect of a DEFINE LANGUAGE command. DELETE PLACEHOLDER [/LANGUAGE=name] cancels the effects of a DEFINE PLACEHOLDER command used for the specified language. DELETE TOKEN [/LANGUAGE=name] cancels the effect of DEFINE TOKEN command used in the specified language. DO executes LSE commands or VAXTPU program statements. END DEFINE terminates a DEFINE TOKEN or DEFINE PLACEHOLDER command. EXTRACT LANGUAGE language-name selects the definition of the named language and formats it as a command. HELP/LANGUAGE [name | * ] displays help information about the specified language. MODIFY LANGUAGE name modifies the characteristics of a specified language. SAVE ENVIRONMENT file-spec writes all user-defined languages, tokens, and placeholders to a specified file. SHOW ALIAS name [/LANGUAGE=name] displays the characteristics of the specified alias for the specified language. SHOW LANGUAGE [ name | * ] displays the characteristics of the specified language. SHOW TOKEN name [/LANGUAGE=name] displays the characteristics of the specified token for the specified language. SHOW PLACEHOLDER name [/LANGUAGE=name] displays the characteristics of the specified placeholder for the specified language.