JOE Reviews and Details

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• WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

  Just use any linux or bsd, install joe editor package, disable graphical desktop and boot to console only. Done. https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu

  Or they should just make sure emacs can work with the machine thru ssh, then there is nothing to install ;) if no ssh, then nano is not a bad option, though I would go with joe (https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/) which can also show the shortcuts, but much much more powerful, yet it's just a single ~700kbyte exe (or 1.5MB with some optional syntax highlighting grammars and docs). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster

  Allow me to introduce you to WordStar, in the "modern" context of Joe's Own Editor. https://gizmodo.com/sci-fi-writer-releases-free-archive-of-legendary-word-processor-used-by-george-rr-martin-2000484618 https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Own_Editor. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• WordStar – A Writer's Word Processor (1990)

  The Joe editor has "jstar" where if you invoke the editor as this command it loads the Wordstar keymapping and looks/operates with the WordStar keybindings and screen interface. https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

  > Unlike emacs or vim or even nano, it didn't have a bunch of invisible shortcut keys, just a Windows-like drop-down menu system (but rendered in DOS). You might like "joe", which was inspired by WordStar: . - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• WordStar: Arrogant, Difficult, Powerful (2022)

  I actually have a bound set for WordStar 4. If you want to use something similar on modern systems, try "Joe's Own Editor." https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Micro – A Modern Alternative to Nano

  JOE is pretty nice https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/ — a hybrid of WordStar and Emacs, and if you run it with `jstar` you get a pretty authentic WordStar experience which also reminds of the earliest Borland Turbo IDEs. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• RAM requirement for a cyberdeck for writing

  If you want to change your workflow, you might consider using a terminal based text editor though. There are many out there, the most famous being vi or emacs (though both a bit hard to use) and packages specifically for word processing exist as well (for example https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/). It will need more getting used to, but this will pretty much run on a potato and you could use a pi zero or any... Source: almost 4 years ago

• Resolving the Great Undo-Redo Quandary

  JOE [1] has worked this way as long as I remember (which is close to 20 years). [1] https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• How do you uninstall compiled and installed things?

  I installed joe's own ediot https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/ by compiling it and using install script. I used it few times before going back to vim. Now I wanna uninstall it. Is there any 'automatic' way of uninstalling it? Source: about 4 years ago

• That Time When the Only Test and Development Environment Was Production

  Once on the machine within a machine within a machine, I could use vim or joe; at the time, I had only minimal familiarity with either one. I chose vim because it was modal. I had less of a chance of “making a change and accidentally saving it” with vim. For those not familiar, in this instance of PHP, whatever change you made to the file immediately took effect. There was no need to restart the web-server. It... - Source: dev.to / about 4 years ago

• The question is what and the answer is vim - that one guy

  If you do have a reason to open up a giant file (like a huge database dump or something), the only editor I've found that can truly handle them with ease is "Joe's Own Editor": https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/. Source: over 4 years ago

• List of CLI programs (follow-up to GUI). Feel free to make suggestions.

  My favourite editor is JOE - mainly cos I am an old git and it uses a lot of the Wordstar key bindings. Source: over 4 years ago

• Defrag Like It's 1993

  Joe's Own Editor is a thing since 1988 https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago

• Fedora: Why it became a distro that worked for me. (Leaving Windows, entering Linux)

  I understand why people do it — it's fun, and you don't have to convince anyone else of your decisions. You want to make the default text editor joe, the default shell nushell, and every single gui element a shade of purple? You can! Without anybody to say no! Source: almost 5 years ago

• Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

  For a couple of decades, my go-to terminal-based editor has been JOE (Joe's Own Editor). [1] JOE has everything I need — it's fast, it has syntax highlighting, multiple buffers, etc. Also, it uses the WordStar key bindings, which are the same bindings used by Turbo Pascal and the other Borland IDEs that I grew up with. But Micro looks great, too. [1] https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/ [2]... - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago

• Lesser Known Terminal Editors

  Joe needs to be on that list. probably. https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 5 years ago

• WordTsar, a WordStar Clone

  The venerable joe editor (https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io) is apparently very comfortable for Wordstar users. I used it for a few years in college before I could afford enough RAM to run emacs and although I never actually used Wordstar myself and cant compare it that way, I really liked using joe and can still remember a lot of the keybindings 20+ years later. - Source: Hacker News / over 5 years ago

• WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

  For a long time, I used Joe's Own Editor [1], which featured a WordStar keybinding mode. I still use it from time to time. [1] https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 5 years ago