masinick
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 Posted: Sat May 08, 2024 6:07 pm Post subject: Joe, classic command line text editor |
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Joe has been around for quite some time. It is a very easily customized text editor, and it comes with at least three different keyboard mappings to emulate other existing editors, including jstar to emulate the ancient WordStar editor, jpico to emulate the easy to use Pico editor, and jmacs to emulate the powerful Emacs editor.
Linux Magazine has a quickly downloadable .pdf file that contains a nice article about Joe. You can find it on the page http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/06/Joe.pdf
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Joe/NotesJoe.NM.html also has a very nice tutorial on using Joe.
If you want something simple, you can invoke Joe as jpico and end up with an editor that's very similar to nano and pico, quite an easy to use command line text editor.
If you've been around a long time and remember how to use the old DOS WordStar editor, then type in jstar as the editor and you'll end up with an interface that's similar to WordStar.
If you are an experienced geek and like Emacs but you want something much smaller and lighter, try typing in jmacs. You'll end up with a Emacs interface to the Joe editor.
Joe is therefore very configurable, yet it's approachable and fairly easy to use. It runs on lots of systems and doesn't take up many resources.
Joe has been around a long time and it is not changed very often. Recently some syntax highlighting features were added, the first change in years. Joe has aged well. If you want a fast, flexible editor, Joe is it.
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