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JOE Hits 3.0
orasio writes " Joe's Own Editor , a unix editor very much like the old Turbo-Pascal 4 editor, or WordStar, used and enjoyed by us console freaks who still miss the old DOS days, and cannot finish understanding vi's modes, has been revamped, adding syntax highlighting and internationalization support after many years without new features. The Sourceforge project is open for contributors since a year ago, but this is the first major feature improvement, that brings new life to JOE as a neat console-based programmer's editor." Joe is one undervalued program -- less arcane than vi, less cumbersome than emacs.
does it have a calendar, calculator, email-client and of course tetris build in?
Dude, if Windows is everywhere you go, I simply don't want to hang out with you.
All that is very nice, but everyone knows real programmers use MS Word.
What, no screenshots? :)
Or is it just a slow news day?
That, and the fact that it's 5:00 in the freakin' morning! Man, give it a few hrs - you'll get your SCO update.
less arcane than vi
:wq or just :x...
Yeah, because Ctrl+KX is so much less arcane than
#include "sig.h"
Shouldn't every reply to this subject be flamebait?
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
Yes, the world is marching ahead. Now instead of Wordstar/Joe, most people are using vi.
Instead of crufty old DOS/Windows/OS2/Mac, the up-and-comming OS is Unix.
Hooray for progress!
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It's probably on one of the install CD's lying in front of the computer then, retard.
There was a thread months back about getting a package picked up by the major Linux distro's. The funniest response said "Write a text editor, man -- there just aren't enough text editors in Linux".
After 300 odd posts, the only point worth saving that I've thus far seen is that Joe is friendly to people who still think in terms of some program they used in the eighties.
So how about somebody writes the kind of editor we need NOW?
The biggest challenge over the past few years has been editing *ML text on servers via browsers, and making it BOTH XHTML (or some subset thereof) and user-friendly. I've seen 20-odd attempts to do something *like* this, but nothing that actually puts the two together.
IMHO then, the #1 most helpful thing that could be written at the moment is a browser-mod for Mozilla that would allow a web form to attach a DTD (and a stylesheet) to a TextArea, which the browser would then respect by firing up an XML editor that followed the given XML definition. Xopus could be a good model for how this might work.
I won't say there hasn't been progress -- I'm writing and spellchecking this HTML in gVim via Mozex at this moment. We're getting there! But the DTD linking can only really occur in the browser.
(Write it myself, I hear you say? I don't have 3 months free to get my C up to speed. Anyone want to code this in exchange for a website?) :D
So you ran "urpmi joe".
No? I guessed not.
So much for your comment then...