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Digital (scholarly) editions are considered to be imperfect tools that are unable to meet the expectations of their users. Based on a previous study with expert users and literature research, tasks and challenges in the process of creating a digital (scholarly) edition were identified. Referring to the term computer-aided digital humanities, we looked into the different tasks and how tools could provide the required “computer-aided” support. In the context of text-based tasks, we identified several support levels from simple syntax checks in XML-Editors, to WYSIWYA-Editors, and finally to context-sensitive support, which utilises data from the same context, e.g., documents of the same author, or from the same writing date. Furthermore, we present concepts and prototypes as work in progress, which focus on support of editors of digital (scholarly) editions.