Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released • Hacker News Board

nimz wrote: post #14

toast0 wrote: post #12

Thank you Joe! I've been using your editor since maybe 1996; it's the first thing I install on a new system. :)

Hmm, random question, did you work at Yahoo around 2005-08?

Yes, I am who you think I am. I'm sure I wasn't the only one using joe there, though :p

Re: Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

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Post by bri3d » Mon, Mar 23, 2015, 1:35 AM UTC

My parents gave me a copy of Slackware Linux when I was a kid and it has shaped my editor choices every since.

I used Joe a lot, then Nano. Yes, Nano. I once had a (prominent?) figure in the startup community walk past my desk and tell me he'd fire me if I worked for him, because it couldn't be productive to work in an editor like that. To this day I think it's fine, although I've moved on to favor IDEs for static analysis friendly languages (Java, C#, and friends) and Sublime Text for everything else.

Anyway, thanks for Joe. It was instrumental in getting me into programming and I think I very well might have been scared off if I had to use Emacs or Vim to start. I just downloaded 4.0 and tried it out. Like others in the thread, it's come right back to me. I might switch for a while!

Re: Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

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Post by cgatesman » Mon, Mar 23, 2015, 1:54 AM UTC

bri3d wrote: post #16

My parents gave me a copy of Slackware Linux when I was a kid and it has shaped my editor choices every since. I used Joe a lot, then Nano. Yes, Nano. I once had a (prominent?) figure in the startup community walk past my desk and tell me he'd fire me if I worked for him, because it couldn't be productive to work in an editor like that. To this day I think it's fine, although I've moved on to favor IDEs for static an…

Similar story for me. I pretty much started with joe on Slackware and later switched to jed as my main editor where I learned and wrote a lot of C and C++ through college. Of course there was always a sprinkle of vi in there for systems that just didn't have other options.

Earlier in my professional career, I resisted IDE's in favor of a customized nedit. I have since moved on to Eclipse, WebStorm and Sublime Text.

I do have fond memories of coding with joe and jed on VT terminals, though.

Re: Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

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Post by nimz » Mon, Mar 23, 2015, 2:50 AM UTC

toast0 wrote: post #15

nimz wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, random question, did you work at Yahoo around 2005-08?

Yes, I am who you think I am. I'm sure I wasn't the only one using joe there, though :p

You weren't, you got me addicted to Joe too!

Re: Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

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Post by diydsp » Mon, Mar 23, 2015, 3:04 AM UTC

jamespo wrote: post #4

Love joe to quickly edit something (with jmacs alias). At Uni we were brought up on JOVE (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs).

Yes! Just in case anyone doesn't know, when you install joe, it adds a soft link to /usr/bin/jmacs. When you run 'jmacs', joe checks argv[0], and if it's jmacs, it binds all the functions to familar emacs commands.

This is very convenient, as joe/jmacs is about 1/16th the binary size of emacs.

There are also soft links to jpico and jstar and rjoe. jpico and jstar I assume run with bindings for pico and wordstar. I don't know what rjoe does.

Re: Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

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Post by dragonquest » Mon, Mar 23, 2015, 3:54 AM UTC

This is fantastic news! Joe is a great editor, thank you Joe Allen.

It has got just the right set of features to be a proper Unix editor that is good at editing and delegating other stuff to other utilities. I love the run shell in this buffer feature. The only thing I wish for is a soft-wrap feature, since I deal with long lines quite a lot.