Programmer's File Editor
Better known as simply PFE, the Programmer's File Editor is a fairly simple freeware Microsoft Windows programmer's editor that has an avid cult following even though the program has not seen an update since 1999, with a small number of OS/2 users running the Windows 3.x version as a WinOS/2 task, but it is also available in a 32 bit version.
Features
Although the software had a number of innovative features in its day, understanding what exactly makes it worthwhile today is not all that easy, but it may be that in addition to inertia and the relative simplicity of the tool, that it has a few nifty features where it senses what sort of file it is dealing with and that may be a real time saver for some people.
PFE has no macro language or support for the use of external language for such use, but it does have a fairly good keyboard recording, playback and macro editing support. It also has a rather unusual automation feature in that it allows the external processing of a text file by another program, the output of which PFE then opens up in another window and diffs.
License and availability
- Closed source freeware, available from the author's homepage.
Author
- Alan Phillips
Publications
- Reviews
- David Mertz: A review of PFE (2000)