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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.

3 of 519 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Value by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I was browsing this article armed with moderator points, but...

    Get a life!

  2. Re:VI is everywhere. by smittyoneeach · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Emacs has vi modes.
    I don't think vi can emulate Emacs.
    Therefore, Emacs seemed the wiser route, IMHO.

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  3. Re:Value by mpmansell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Get a name :)

    If you have something to say, then at least have the courage to use your login name.

    As regards getting a life, I have one. But, I appreciate having a valuable discussion community like /. and using my mod points allows me to give something back to the community even when I don't feel I have anything else of value to contribute to a discussion. The same with metamoderation. I just hope that my participation be constructive