Pe (Text Editor)

Pe
	Pe logo, introduced in 2005
Developer(s)	Maarten Hekkelman
Initial release	1998
Stable release	2.4.3
Written in	C / C++
Operating system	BeOS, Haiku
Type	Text Editor
License	MIT
Website	https://github.com/olta/pe

Short description: Open-source text editor

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

↑ "Pe". http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications/pe.html.
↑ Kenlon, Seth. "Experience alternate computing with the Pe text editor | Opensource.com" (in en). https://opensource.com/article/20/12/pe.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "Pepper Author Maarten Hekkelman" (in en). https://daringfireball.net/2002/08/pepper_author_maarten_hekkelman.
↑ Tappe, Oliver (December 16, 2014). "BeOS". https://github.com/olta. https://github.com/olta/pe.
↑ "Hekkelman Programmatuur", hekkelman.com/index.html, November 24, 2013, http://www.hekkelman.com/software.html/, retrieved January 30, 2014 .
↑ "Pe, a new editor for BeOS". https://web.archive.org/web/19981205074439/hekkelman.com/pe.html.
↑ "BeOS-Nachfolger Haiku: Altes System, neue Technik" (in de). Der Spiegel. 2009-09-18. ISSN 2195-1349. https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/beos-nachfolger-haiku-altes-system-neue-technik-fotostrecke-46788.html.
↑ Stephenson, Neal (1999). In the Beginning... Was the Command Line.. Neal Stephenson. ISBN 9780380815937. https://archive.org/details/inbeginningwasco00step.

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[1] "Pe". http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications/pe.html.

[2] Kenlon, Seth. "Experience alternate computing with the Pe text editor | Opensource.com" (in en). https://opensource.com/article/20/12/pe.

[:0-3] 3.0 ^3.1 "Pepper Author Maarten Hekkelman" (in en). https://daringfireball.net/2002/08/pepper_author_maarten_hekkelman.

[4] Tappe, Oliver (December 16, 2014). "BeOS". https://github.com/olta. https://github.com/olta/pe.

[5] "Hekkelman Programmatuur", hekkelman.com/index.html, November 24, 2013, http://www.hekkelman.com/software.html/, retrieved January 30, 2014 .

[6] "Pe, a new editor for BeOS". https://web.archive.org/web/19981205074439/hekkelman.com/pe.html.

[7] "BeOS-Nachfolger Haiku: Altes System, neue Technik" (in de). Der Spiegel. 2009-09-18. ISSN 2195-1349. https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/beos-nachfolger-haiku-altes-system-neue-technik-fotostrecke-46788.html.

[8] Stephenson, Neal (1999). In the Beginning... Was the Command Line.. Neal Stephenson. ISBN 9780380815937. https://archive.org/details/inbeginningwasco00step.