JOE is where I started my Unix editor journey, the Wordstar bindings were familiar coming from DOS and Borland tools. From there I went on to jed which also had

JOE is where I started my Unix editor journey, the Wordstar bindings were familiar coming from DOS and Borland tools. From there I went on to jed which also had Wordstar support and it gave me a taste for extensibility. Jed's native keybindings were based on Emacs though so I eventually arrived to the real deal and it has been Emacs ever since then. But also learned vi basics along the way of course. :)