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Pe (text editor)
Pe grammer’s Workshop and BBEdit, both of which are edit-
ing programs for the Mac OS.
Pe boasts features such as function autocompletion,
powerful search-and-replace options, and syntax high-
lighting for several programming languages. Pe was port-
ed to Mac OS X, Linux and Windows under the name Pep-
Written in C / C++
per, and the original BeOS code was open-sourced.
Operating system BeOS like Pe was written by the Dutch programmer Maarten
Hekkelman, who also wrote bdb, the source-level debug-
Type Text Editor
ger for the BeOS, and the spreadsheet Sum-It!, first for
License MIT classic Mac OS and later BeOS where it was packaged by
Website http://pe-editor.berlios.de/ Beatware as half of BeBasics; a lightweight office suite,
which was also open-sourced.
Pe short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text
Pe, Pe was used to write the BeOS Bible and possible oth-
editor for the Be Operating System (BeOS). It is targeted er similar-era Scot Hacker works, as well as In the Begin-
towards source-code editing, and features syntax high- ning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson; both
lighting for a large number of programming languages. of which works mention it.
It also works as a basic source-level HTML editor, with
some HTML autocompletion support, automatic updat- External links
ing of files included within other files, and direct FTP in-
• Pe at BerliOS
tegration. It is conceptually based on the Macintosh Pro-
• Pe’s website
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