
                        Personal Editor 32
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                  Home Page: http://www.pe32.com
                       e-Mail: pe32@pe32.com


            Personal Editor 32 - The new age Personal Editor
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  Personal Editor 32 is a powerful ASCII file editor with a console interface.
  It is the only real 32 bit upgrade of the Dos IBM Personal Editor and all
  its revisions called PE2 and PE3.

  Personal Editor 32 (also called PE32) maintains the same user interface,
  the same profile file syntax and it executes all the original commands to
  update the old editor at no cost.
  It, however, uses a complete 32 bit core thus removing all DOS limitations,
  it adds many new powerful features like the multi language support, the
  syntax coloring and a lot of setting commands.

  Personal Editor 32 is the best editor for editing large amount of data,
  for professional programmers and to simplify complex editing tasks.

  Personal Editor 32 new release features are:

    . NEW: Autocomplete for commands and filenames in the command line!
    . NEW: Commands to count file lines, words and characters!
    . NEW: The calc command can use and set numbers in the data file!
    . NEW: Messages file to modify or translate all editor messages!
    . NEW: Timed automatic save of all modified files!
    . NEW: Export the syntax coloring in HTML and Rich Text Format!
    . NEW: 9 improved syntax coloring files!
    . NEW: 9 new national dictionaries for the spell checker!

  Personal Editor 32 main features are:

    . 200 editing commands and more than 40 setting commands.
    . Different profile files for every file extension.
    . Workspaces management to save and restore editing sessions.
    . Codepages management for the international symbols.
    . Menu to execute all PE32 commands and instructions.
    . Open up to 1024 files in the same working session.
    . The size of editable files is limited only by the amount of memory that
      Windows can allocate.
    . Configurable syntax coloring for C/C++, Java, HTML, BASIC, ASM and .BAT.
    . Autocomplete for all languages keywords and spelling checker using
      many national dictionaries.
    . Pop-up commands history, recently used files and directories dialogs.
    . Regular search expressions with substitution.
    . Support for line marking, block marking and stream marking.
    . Many block operations: move, copy, delete, overlay, fill and shift.
    . Fully remappable keyboard and keystrokes macro available.
    . Multiple ftp files editing and directories browsing.
    . Send e-mail from the editor.
    . Visual Basic Script commands and file execution inside PE32.
    . Get and set PE32 attributes from Visual Basic Script commands.
    . PE32.VBS file to load Visual Basic Script procedures.

    . Full 32-bit program, Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000 and XP compatible.
    . Fat, Fat32, NTFS, long file name and network path compatible.
    . Timed autosave and backup copies on configurable files.
    . Console interface with unlimited lines and columns.
    . Bookmarks enhanced: saved, restored and a dialog to manage them.
    . Sort all or a block of lines using different comparisons.
    . Edit and save ascii files compressed in a zip archive.
    . User defined synonyms to execute a sequence of commands.
    . Open multiple files matching a wildcard specification.
    . Save, load and run macro keystrokes.
    . Creation a file containing all occurrences of a string.
    . Commands to move the cursor simultaneously in all opened files.
    . Command line and status line presence is configurable.
    . Calc command to evaluate expressions.
    . Encryption/Decryption password for each file.

    . Window update is now two times faster.
    . Search and replace simultaneously on all opened files.
    . 26 bookmarks management: set, goto and remove commands.
    . 255 levels undo and redo facility.
    . Word wrap management, overstrike and insert typing modes.
    . Restores the last cursor position on previously opened files.
    . Block or word change case (upper, lower, invert and capitalize).
    . Configurable format for date and time insertion instructions.
    . Configurable context help on the current word.
    . Instructions to divide the screen in multiple views.
    . Instructions to open files in view mode (read only).
    . Instructions to reformat lines and paragraph into margins.
    . Full mouse management (wheel included).
    . Clipboard and internal buffer copy, append and paste operations.
    . Multiple files management and files merge and append options.
    . Program execution without leaving the editor.
    . Full file or block of lines printing on local or network printer.

  Personal Editor 32 is completely customizable:

    . Each keystroke can be assigned to one or more commands.
    . Syntax coloring is modifiable and updatable by the customer.
    . Different configurations (profiles) can be created and invoked.
    . The editor can be adapted to the GUI style of another editor and
      can be integrated in the programming environments.
    . Commands can be created for specialized editing tasks.
    . All the languages, dictionaries and messages files can be modified
      and updated by the customer.

  To install it run the Install.bat program included in the pe32.zip file or
  execute the installation program called Setup.exe, setup your profile file
  in order to assign all functions to the keystrokes you need, add the C:\PE32
  dir to the current path if necessary and run the program using the syntax:

    PE32 [switch] [commands] <pathname> [commands] ... <pathname> [commands]

  See the included PE32.HLP help file for more information, the PE32.PRO
  sample profile file and the ORDER.TXT file for the program registration.

  Please send an e-mail to pe32@pe32.com to receive more information.

