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JOE Hits 3.0

Posted by timothy on from the tap-tap-clicka-tap dept.

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.

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  1. hmm.... by k0d0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    does it have a calendar, calculator, email-client and of course tetris build in?

  2. Re:Windows is everywhere. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, if Windows is everywhere you go, I simply don't want to hang out with you.

  3. Hey! Where are the pretty pictures? by Kaemaril · · Score: 3, Funny

    What, no screenshots? :)

  4. Re:Fanboy......but...... by FatAlb3rt · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:Oh boy... by Ice_Balrog · · Score: 2, Funny

    less arcane than vi

    Yeah, because Ctrl+KX is so much less arcane than :wq or just :x...

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  6. Re:Great news, but.. by evilviper · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yes I've used wordstar in past. And Joe as well. But it seems to me the world has moved far far ahead in the last few years.

    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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  7. The issue now is DTD'd browser editing by kale77in · · Score: 3, Funny

    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