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PE : Pete's Editor (or Programmer's Editor if you wish)

PE is a small and fast old-school text editor for Windows. Although its a full W32 application it feels more like a shell programmer's editor.  The default keyboard mapping is very Brief like, but its not a Brief clone.  

PE Features Include

· Small and Fast

· Minimilistic User Interface

· File Size only Limited by Memory

· Can Load and Edit Multiple Files

· Unlimited Undo/Redo

· Keyboard Remapping

· Keystroke Recording and Playback

· Extendible Syntax Highlighting (Pre configured for: C, C++, Java, Ruby, Python, Batch files)

· Tabbed UI

PE UI

PE is different.  If you want Menu bars and Tool bars, look elsewhere.   PE is designed to be used from the keyboard.  If you don't like the default key assignments I've choosen you can easily change them.

Note, if you really. really need to see a menu, you can right-click the PE window to open up a configuration aware context menu.






PE Configuration

Everything in PE is configured by one simple text file called pe.cfg: key associations, font face and size, colors, everything. To change how PE works, just edit the file, save it, and reload PE.  Pe.cfg contains instructions for setting all the options.  It's old-school I know, but who needs a stinking dialog box anyway.

BIND <alt-u> Undo
BIND <ctrl-alt-u> Redo
BIND <ctrl-z> Undo
BIND <ctrl-y> Redo
BIND <alt-w> SaveFile
BIND <alt-shift-w> SaveAll
BIND <ctrl-s> SaveFile

SET PE.FONT.FACE = "Lucida Console"
SET PE.FONT.SIZE = 8
SET PE.FONT.COLOR = black
SET PE.FONT.HIGHLIGHT = system
SET PE.FONT.COLOR.KEYWORD=darkblue

PE History

I wrote PE for two reasons. First, back when I was starting to write Java I needed an editor that could handle long file names. My favorite quick and dirty editor of the day, Brief, couldn't do it, I tried Codewrite and it was just too slow for quick open and close edit sessions; I had no desire to learn Emacs or VI; and Notepad and its host of extended clones all irked me.
The second reason was as an experiment in user interface design. I like minimalist applications and I wanted a minimalist programmers editor that broke with the Windows standard of menu bars, tool bars and dialogs for everything. Instead I wanted something more like my original DOS editors PE (the old IBM version) and Brief.
So I wrote PE. Keep in mind, its called PE for a reason.  It's Pete's Editor.  Its the way I like it.


PE is a work in progress but its very stable and me and many co-workers use it every day in our work.
PE is free (as in no cost)


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