Personal Editor

Personal Editor (PE) and Personal Editor II (PE2) was a text editor developed by IBM for IBM PC DOS and MS-DOS in the 1980s. It became popular because of its easy, fast, and programmable (custom keyboard shortcuts) user interface.^[2][3] PE influenced its successor text editors, such as Personal Editor 32, a modern 32-bit editor with a user interface based on PE2, and QE, a text editor for Linux systems.^[4][5] Personal Editor 3 (PE3) is an open source implementation for 64 bit Linux and Windows 10+ running Intel compatible processors, implemented using the SNOBOL5 programming language.

Personal Editor

Developer(s)	IBM
Initial release	1982; 43 years ago (1982)[1]
Operating system	PC DOS, DOS/V
Platform	IBM PC compatible
Type	Text editor
License	Proprietary software

For Asia-Pacific region, IBM Japan released a DBCS version of Personal Editor for IBM 5550 and PS/55.^[6][7] It was available in IBM's lineup over the years,^[8] although the E editor came with PC DOS since version 6.1.

See also

• E (PC DOS)