Pe (text editor)

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Pe
Developer(s) Maarten Hekkelman
Initial release1998
Stable release
2.4.3
Repository
Written in C / C++
Operating system BeOS, Haiku
Type Text Editor
License MIT
Website https://github.com/olta/pe

Pe, short for Programmer's Editor, is an open source text editor for the Be Operating System (BeOS), Haiku [1] and other BeOS-like operating systems, targeted towards source-code editing. [2] It is conceptually based on the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop and BBEdit, both of which are editing programs for the Mac OS. [3]

It can work as a basic source-level HTML editor, with some HTML auto-completion support, automatic updating of files included within other files, and direct FTP integration. [4]

Pe was written by the Dutch programmer Maarten Hekkelman, who also wrote BDB, the source-level debugger for the BeOS, and the spreadsheet Sum-It!, first for classic Mac OS and later BeOS where it was packaged by Beatware as half of BeBasics. [5] Originally it was a commercial product sold on BeDepot for $50. [6] Later after being open sourced, it came preloaded with the first alpha release of Haiku in 2009. [7] Hekkelman also ported Pe to Macintosh under the name Pepper, until he ended development in 2002. [3]

Pe was used to write the BeOS Bible, as well as In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson, both of which mention it. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Pe".
  2. ↑ Kenlon, Seth. "Experience alternate computing with the Pe text editor | Opensource.com". opensource.com. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  3. 1 2 "Pepper Author Maarten Hekkelman". Daring Fireball. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  4. ↑ Tappe, Oliver (December 16, 2014). "BeOS". Pe on Github. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Hekkelman Programmatuur", hekkelman.com/index.html, November 24, 2013, archived from the original on April 2, 2012, retrieved January 30, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Pe, a new editor for BeOS". Archived from the original on 1998-12-05. Retrieved 2023-11-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ↑ "BeOS-Nachfolger Haiku: Altes System, neue Technik". Der Spiegel (in German). 2009-09-18. ISSN   2195-1349 . Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  8. ↑ Stephenson, Neal (1999). In the Beginning... Was the Command Line . Neal Stephenson. ISBN   9780380815937.
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