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I was old enough back then that I remember actually paying for the shareware version of FrexxEd [1]. I just learned from that page that it's open source now, cool!

[1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/opensource.html (yes, by the author of curl).

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FrexxEd is beautiful, and scripted with C-like programming language (FPL), or Arexx, and it has fun features such as giving access to the buffers of your running instance via a filesystem, so you can e.g. call the compiler directly on your open buffers (a lot more useful on a limited RAM system with floppies, granted)

Yes, FrexxEd is great. I've done quite a bit of work on the source code to extend it a little, and have overhauled the scripts also.

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