IBM Personal Editor: Difference between revisions

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IBM Personal Editor was written by Jim Wyllie and released in Spring 1983.

History

The development was started in 1982 as ED Version 0.1 - a program for IBM internal use by Jim Wyllie (IBM Research, San Jose).

Functions

PE is a full-screen editor that edits standard DOS files. It tries to take advantage of the characteristics of the IBM PC to provide a powerful editing environment. For example, when the cursor is positioned on the top line of the screen and the up arrow key is pressed, the cursor does not wrap around to the bottom of the screen, but rather remains stationary and the data on the screen scrolls down one line, bringing one more line of data into view. As many functions as possible have been assigned to single keystrokes to improve the efficiency of a skilled user.

Block editing
Editing buffers (up to 20 files)
Directory
KEYDEFS
Macros

Version

1.0 (1983)

The enhanced IBM Personal Editor II was released in 1986.

Links

Manual PDF (Nov 1982)

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-IBM Personal Editor was written by Jim Wyllie.
+[[Image:IBM-PE.png|thumb|Start screen]]
+IBM Personal Editor was written by Jim Wyllie and released in Spring 1983.
+==History==
+The development was started in 1982 as ED Version 0.1 - a program for IBM internal use by Jim Wyllie (IBM Research, San Jose).
+==Functions==
+[[Image:IBM-PE-1.png|thumb|Edit]]
+PE is a full-screen editor that edits standard DOS files. It tries to take advantage of the characteristics of the [[IBM PC]] to provide a powerful editing environment. For example, when the cursor is positioned on the top line of the screen and the up arrow key is pressed, the cursor does not wrap around to the bottom of the screen, but rather remains stationary and the data on the screen scrolls down one line, bringing one more line of data into view. As many functions as possible have been assigned to single keystrokes to improve the efficiency of a skilled user.
+*Block editing
+*Editing buffers (up to 20 files)
+*Directory
+*KEYDEFS
+*Macros
+[[Image:IBM-PE-Help3.png|thumb|Help screen]]
 ==Version==
-*1.0 (1982)
+*1.0 (1983)
+The enhanced [[IBM Personal Editor II]] was released in 1986.
 ==Links==
-*Manual [http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/pc/apps/6936761_Personal_Editor_Nov82.pdf PDF] (Nov 1982)
+*Manual [http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/pc/apps/6936761_Personal_Editor_Nov82.pdf PDF] (Nov 1982)
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