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From: robertre@microsoft.UUCP (Robert Reichel ms2)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: PE (Personal Editor), nice, but where is it available?
Message-ID: <60371@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 91 17:03:07 GMT
References: <15796.2780ada0@levels.sait.edu.au> <581@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Reply-To: robertre@microsoft.UUCP (Robert Reichel ms2)
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In article <581@cadlab.sublink.ORG> staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli) writes:
>I recall huge,
>powerful E3 (I think its developer later left IBM and for a while
>marketed a similar program on its own... maybe someone can followup on
>this?), and tiny, brilliant T, the 9-Kbyte wonder.

I believe the editor you're describing is called Slick, and it is alive
and well.  I don't know the torrid history of IBM editors, but having used
Slick a lot and PE a little I find them very similar.  For example, the
funky expand/contract tabs behavior described by another poster is there
exactly.

Slick is huge, and has a REXX-like macro language that I find very easy
to use.  Key bindings are similar to Emacs, and it supports Emacs and
Brief emulation modes (not being an Emacs or Brief user, I don't know how
good they are).  It's very fast, and I haven't been able to create a file
too big for it to handle.  It works under OS/2 and Dos.

I don't remember what it costs.

Slick is available from many retail outlets, or directly from:

MicroEdge, Inc
Calibre Chase Dr  Apt 100-307
Raleigh, NC  27609
(919) 831-0662

The guy answering the phone is the author, so support is pretty good :-).

This is not an endorsement by Microsoft or anyone else but me.
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Robert Reichel		 {decvax,uunet,uw-beaver}!microsoft!robertre