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@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. > >
