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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. Joe vs. vi vs. GUI based editors by Bapu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Everyone should use Joe because CTRL-k-d is so much easier and more intuitive than ESC :wq!

    Joe was a nice alternative for DOS refugees when vi was the only other choice, but X-windows based editors make everything nicer...try middle click cut-and-paste for starters.

    Unless we are all sitting at green Wyse 50 terminals, why are we still so married to command line editors? I am guilty of it too. vi is my God.

  2. Re:Anyone have a replica of MS-DOS EDITOR? by Scott+Robinson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Have you tried using Jed?

    For the record, I'm was leaving Joe *right now* for Jed.

    With version three, I think I'll take another look at my favourite editor.

  3. Re:VI is everywhere. by CoolGopher · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I know what you mean. When I was dropped into doing system development on a Solaris based product I initially set out with the intention of finally learning emacs.

    Well, long story short, I couldn't the sucker to compile/run/whatever (I've forgotten the details by now), so I decided not to waste any more time and instead improve my vi skills.

    Best decision ever. Easily.
    Now I have an extremely powerful, usable, lightweight editor that is available on every *nix under the Sun (ha ha).

    Not to mention that starting up emacs on my old 386 would not be a pretty sight, considering that just doing "vi /etc/fstab" takes ~8secs before I can start editing...

    This is not to say that Joe is bad/useless. I wouldn't say that, especially since I haven't used it. However, for me, and many others, it's not the most practical choice :)

  4. Re:Great news, but.. by Alan+Cox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I for one use joe. It does what I need and it does it fast. More to the point I suspect it uses the same keystrokes I learned back in prehistory (before DOS!) from VDE and Wordstar on CP/M.

    Joe 3 will be most welcome here.