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 opf 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, which means that you are free to use, modify, or redistribute the software as long as you keep it free for other people. It is distributed under the GPL, which is a license designed by the Free Software Foundation to ensure these rights.