Pe, short for Programmer's Editor, is an

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for the Be Operating System (BeOS), Haiku and other BeOS-like operating systems. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages. It also works 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. It is conceptually based on the

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and

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, both of which are editing programs for the

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. Pe was written by the Dutch

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Maarten Hekkelman, who also wrote BDB, the source-level

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for the BeOS, and the

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Sum-It!, first for

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and later BeOS where it was packaged by Beatware as half of BeBasics; a lightweight

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, which was also open-sourced. Pe was used to write the BeOS Bible and possible other similar-era Scot Hacker works, as well as In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by

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; both of which works mention it.

Features

Pe boasts features such as function auto-completion, powerful search-and-replace options, and

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for several

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s. Pe was then ported to

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and

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under the name

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, and the original BeOS code was open-sourced. It has been included in the early builds of

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. Code from Pe was also incorporated into PalEdit, the editing component of the Paladin IDE. General features include: *

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* Find and Replace (Multiple File Search) * Zooming *

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editing and synchronized scrolling * Open and Save directly from/to Server * Find Functions * Change Encoding * Go to line (By line number)

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