Comment by mschuster91
8 hours ago
> These days JOE (Joe's Own Editor) still uses a similar keyset.
joe is definitely among the easiest CLI/TUI editors there are.
8 hours ago
> These days JOE (Joe's Own Editor) still uses a similar keyset.
joe is definitely among the easiest CLI/TUI editors there are.
I remember finding joe back in the 90s, having come to Linux from mainly DOS, and bring overjoyed. The little Unix I'd used up to that point (mainly Xenix and a little SCO) had me using ed, which was enough like old DOS EDLIN that I could manage. When I found myself in vi I'd just hang up the modem because I never could figure out how to get out of it. >smile<
Back in the 90's, "pico" was always the go-to editor for those who didn't want to mess around with emacs or vi.
Jove was the big editor on campus at the University of Rochester back in the very early 90's, mostly because Jonathan Payne, who wrote it, attended the school. When I got there I pushed for Joe adoption because it was a simpler editor for the less geeky undergraduate users to use. Pico never really was a phenomenon there at the time.