LPE - Lightweight Programmer's Editor

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LPE is a small, efficient programmer's editor for UNIX systems. It has grown from the result of a single night of hacking into a very capable and very versatile editor that defines it's own philosophy of text editing. That philosophy is that awk and sed are the right tools for most advanced editing jobs, and a text editor should make simple operations easy and make text look good.

LPE does that with support for visual features like automatic indentation, brace flashing, and syntax highlighting. The editor includes a generic plug-in architecture supporting a variety of languages with "modes" that can be added at any time. It also supports easy commands to run the current buffer through an awk or sed script, and a macro recorder and command repeater to ease repetitive editing.

With all of this, LPE is still one of the smallest, most efficient, and least cumbersome editors available for UNIX systems!

Lpe is free software, but unlike most other software here, it is not in the public domain. It is distributed under version 2 of the GPL. As is normal, you may choose to distribute it yourself under a later version of the GPL, if you wanted to for some reason. I would like to eventually put it in the public domain, but realistically I am not going to track down all of the contributors and ask their permission, so it won't happen.

To find out more about lpe, you can try it out, subscribe to the mailing list, or take a look at some screen shots.