This episode features Atari Program Text Editor, released in 1981 by APX. It was developed by Mike Lorenzen.

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APX Catalog PageCatalog page presenting Atari Program Text Editor from the APX Fall 1982 issue. Note the Atari Staff Premium award:

Atari Program Text Editor in ActionBooting

• Command / Usage

• Editor in command mode.

• Starting a search command
• Found match!
• Cancel marker.
• Block marker set.
• Block copy.
• Block delete.
• Block print.
• Block write.
• Proof block was written.
• Contents of the block that was written. Matches!
• Set left margin to 4.
• Set left margin to 1.
• Goto line 1000!

• No line 1000! Editor / Usage

• Basic editing window with focus (not command mode). Errors Ruh roh! Files Customizer*** Booting (with BASIC!)

• Defining per file type (C).
• Defining per file type (ACTion!)
• Customizer Menu
• Modified tab stops to be at 4 character increments.
• Maximum line length.
• Margins.
• Screen colors. Want Assembler red? Go for it.
• Space tabs. Always!
• Instructions.
• Print OutputPrintout of an entire program:

S8E06-prt-PrtPLDownloadPrintout of a selected block:

S8E06-prt-BlockPrintDownloadShow Links* AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-atari-program-text-editor_18535.html * AtariWiki: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Programm%20Text%20Editor * Antic Pix: https://www.atarimagazines.com/v1n6/tenbestfromapx.html * Microsoft Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/ * Atom Editor: https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/ * Sublime Editor: https://www.sublimetext.com/ * Inverse ATASCII S2 E18 Antic Family Tree: https://inverseatascii.info/2016/06/14/s2e18-antic-publishing-the-family-tree-supplement/

Intro music is an excerpt from a chip tune by Wizwars named 8 Bit Raceway. It is used under Creative Common license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.