Found my favorite DOS editor

[Tony Aiuto]

I used pmate in my early DOS years (1982-83) eventually switching back to
vi when it was available. That might have been the MKS (Mortice Kern
Systems) version.
I have a copy of pmate but its two or three files are tangled up on a disk
image with some unrelated .com files. When I can sort them out and find the
cheat sheet, I'll make them available.

On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 2:46 AM Steve Malikoff via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> In the late eighties I used to use E, an editor developed internally at
> IBM. My dad had retired from there by then but got it from
> ex-colleagues. I see you can get it from here now
> https://winworldpc.com/product/ibm-e-editor/3x
>
> Already mentioned is Brief, I still have the light green box on the shelf.
> This was ultra customisable but like many, just used it as-is.
>
> A super compact and snappy editor was the one built into Turbo Pascal.
> IIRC it used WordStar bindings. It was so compact on CP/M that I
> kept the whole integrated editor/Pascal compiler on my 8" floppies just
> for editing my COBOL assignments, later on using the DOS version
> in Turbo C / C++.
>
> I also used WordStar on those OSs and I'm sure lots of you will fondly
> remember the LIST viewer by Vernon Buerg. I loved that program.
>
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