BlackBeard (and later CaptainBlackBeard) was a powerful TextEditor for the IBMPC running PCDOS/MSDOS.
Author: James K. Powers Homepage: http://www.users.cts.com/crash/j/jkpowers/ (last known) (404, alas.) Download: http://www.revobild.net/dos-loads/utils.htm Blackbeard and Captain Blackbeard MS-DOS http://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/editors/bb2_120.zip OS/2Alternative: http://www.inti.be/hammer/revobild.htm for both BB and CB
Family: MsDosEditors OS/2EditorFamily License: Commercial Platform: MSDOS, Windows, OS/2
Written by James K. Powers in San Bernadino, CA.
In particular, it had features such as:
Review: (by RonPerrella)
Personally, I used BlackBeard a number of years in college to produce documentation for programs as well as the programs themselves. BlackBeard has a very cool ASCII line-drawing capability which allows you to draw diagrams into your text files by using the IBM-PC character-set. Though this might seem primitive by modern standards, it made documents seems pretty cool at the time.
Blackbeard was small and fast. It also has a formatting tool to allow you to markup text files and generate good looking documents.
All in all, a solid tool. It never crashed and had loads of power. If it was available with support today, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
There was even rumored to be a Windows compatible version coming out Real Soon.