Talk:Programmer's File Editor

Notability
Agreed on notability insufficiency. A freeware text editor that was last updated in 1999 hardly qualifies for inclusion.71.202.23.39 00:23, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I think PFE is notable. It was and I think still is very popular.  I still use it along with other editors.  (Maybe *that's* notable, that it still runs fine after 8 years.) :-) Scott Carpenter 04:09, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I found a news article saying "Alan Phillips has won awards for earlier versions of this program, which can edit multiple large files.", which may establish notability, although I'm not sure what the awards actually are. +1 programmer who still uses it, here. --McGeddon (talk) 12:03, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

I do think it has historical value and having a wiki page on it to trace that history and its impact is important. I think for a lot of people that were stuck on Windows it was a good, free editor and enabled me to do meaningful web application programming (HTML, Javascript, Perl, etc.) On Windows if you were not programming in Microsoft's walled garden using an approved and expensive editor there were not a lot of choices in the mid to late 1990's  This probably helped a lot of people get into web programming that didn't have money for those tools or were interested in open source, which at the time did not have great interoperability with Windows. In the 1990s Linux was new and not approachable to people that didn't have time to master it (and was a forbidden install on my work machine anyway). Mac was nearly dead and a special request on the job (and you needed to prove you needed a Mac to do your job). I think this was my editor of choice for about 5 years. I bet my experience is similar to others. I'm sad the code was never released under an open source license. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.195.144.153 (talk) 18:47, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Other users
Here is another one using it after 8 years. It is still going strong. Someone should port it to Linux also, it is _that_ good. //M. Adler.

Ditto. Tom Haws 15:11, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, I'm still using it every day. It has outlasted every IDE I've tried. NeilFraser (talk) 22:49, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Make that eleven years, and still my preferred editor; despite fooling around with many of the other Windows text editors listed. Possibly because it hasn't expanded to encompass email. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.155.173.230 (talk) 02:30, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I've not found an easy way to search for a "word" or "identifier" - to find "end" but not "ending". I use PFE for all Web and general editing. 82.163.24.100 (talk) 22:11, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

I used it for years, then switched to Notepad++, which I think is a worthy successor. It handles Unicode and has better language specific colour display options. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jp-hickson (talk • contribs) 12:29, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Still using it, 13 years on. Classic software. -- John (Daytona2 &middot; &#32; Talk &middot; &#32; Contribs) 18:51, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Wow, I must have been this for more than 15 years. I remember being disappointed when he dropped support in 1999! Great editor for html. Although nowadays I find it most useful for stripping formatting out of stuff I want to copy/paste. Briginsh (talk) 04:26, 31 October 2013 (UTC)