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Just for fun, I have installed "Joe's Own Editor" by running "yum install joe" from Oracle's EPEL mirror. Then I ran "joe /etc/passwd" (after exiting root) the
by chasil 5y ago
Just for fun, I have installed "Joe's Own Editor" by running "yum install joe" from Oracle's EPEL mirror.
Then I ran "joe /etc/passwd" (after exiting root) then pressed ^K-h, and Wordstar's help menu appeared.
Wordstar and the vi editor share evolution on serial terminals of the 70s (vi specifically on the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A). They were designed for a minimal number of keys, and thus keeping the hands on the home row, away from the function keys.
Some people grow very much accustomed to this.
$ rpm -qi joe
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URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/
Summary : An easy to use, modeless text editor
Description :
Joe is a powerful, easy to use, modeless text editor.
It uses the same WordStar keybindings used in Borland's development
environment.
- colanderman 5y agoI use JOE as my daily driver. I grew up on Borland Turbo C, so it was an easy transition for me when I picked up Linux circa 2000. JOE ships with several keybinding variants as well. E.g. `jstar` launches JOE with more WordStar-like bindings.
- EvanAnderson 5y agoI'm in a similar boat. I used a lot of Turbo Pascal and EDIT.COM/QBASIC.EXE (which has some similar keybindings). Joe was the natural editor to use when I started with Slackware back in the early 90s. It's really a pleasure to keep using 30 year old muscle memory.
- dugmartin 5y agoI still use the muscle memory gained using Turbo Pascal 3 at 15 in 1986 in VSCode at 50 in 2021 as it maps _similar_ shortcuts using ^K-...