JOE Hits 3.0

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Posted by timothy on Monday April 26, 2004 @10:19PM 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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Cool! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-26 22:21 · Score: -1, Troll

Thanks Slashmeat, you utter waste of electrons!
1. Re:Cool! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-26 23:57 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  It's interesting to see what goes through the little chicken brain sized minds of these LINUX fanatics.
  
  When I edit something I use notepad or Word, without giving it a second though.
  
  Yet Slashdot faggots have to make the matter a whole fucking holy war, over products inferior to both notepad and Word! I almost feel sorry for them for having such a pathetic loser view on the world.
2. Re:Cool! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-27 02:41 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  you are 100% right dude. i remember the first time i was introduced to unix in college. the first thing the professor told us about was how great these text editors were! he spent a whole class session telling us about the wide wide world of typing! woo hoo!
  
  i remember thinking to myself. geez, in other operating systems things like audio/video, 3d graphics, cad/cam, games, etc... are the norm, yet unix's "strong points" were fucking text editors?
  
  say that out loud to yourself. "text editor".
  
  i couldn't believe it. it just had to be a joke.
  
  nope, it was the truth. this OS had been around since the 1970's, and all it had to show was that you could type things on a keyboard, and they would show up on the screen.
  
  fucking amazing!!!!!!
Just what I need by Magickcat · 2004-04-26 22:22 · Score: -1, Troll

Yep, just what Linux needs - another editor.

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anyone really care? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-26 22:25 · Score: -1, Troll

there must be what? 0.001% of the readership who care. What a waste of time
1. Re:anyone really care? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-26 23:38 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  Helo! I'm Ratshnevspsul Hindurishnevstas, I live in NuDelhee and I must strongestly contradict you.
  
  For our work with American banks, we use Jed for text-editioning of account-datas, which is very fast because we being very big compny.
  
  So, in the real wrold, ther are examples of using Jed.
  
  Thank you.
Required Slashdot reading list by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-26 22:37 · Score: -1, Troll

did you hippies know that windows has, gasp, Word? Thats right, a nice, user-friendly editor. Emacs/Vi are more horrible then edit.com
Re:Fanboy......but...... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-26 23:19 · Score: -1, Troll

There's some man-juice dripping from your chin. You might want to wipe that off, before your parents notice it.
Re:VI is everywhere. by cheekyboy · 2004-04-26 23:58 · Score: -1, Troll

So we have distros that take up 500-1.5 GIG, but the stupid (oldfarts) cant find the time to include 150kb editor?

Yes I know how to use VI in emergency, but id rather spend the extra 3mins downloading joe, coz I hope to death that vi goes away with CPM/128. Who ever thought of that moronic interface should be shot. It reeks of 1974.

google returns 50% more hits for "joe editor" compared to "vi editor" btw.

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