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Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

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Re: Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

#2
Full windows support? Yay!

joe was the first editor I used when I tried Linux for the first time. vim and Emacs seemed terrifying back then, and I needed very little features. Just being able to edit config files.

The Wordstar shortcuts somehow are still in my muscle memory. I will definitly try and see how joe fares under my current requirements for a text editor.

This is exciting!

Re: Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

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post #2

Full windows support? Yay! joe was the first editor I used when I tried Linux for the first time. vim and Emacs seemed terrifying back then, and I needed very little features. Just being able to edit config files. The Wordstar shortcuts somehow are still in my muscle memory. I will definitly try and see how joe fares under my current requirements for a text editor. This is exciting!

I can't believe how long muscle-memory can persist!

I started programming in DOS in the 90s, and just hitting Ctrl-H in joe makes my muscles remember the most-used chords... A very funny flashback.

Re: Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

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I haven't seen a live project on SourceForge in over a year. FWIW, Homebrew is still at Joe 3.7. The 4.0 source release compiles fine on MacOS/Homebrew if you set LC_ALL=C to work around some sed problem.

I haven't seen joe for over a decade, got ya beat :)

Re: Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

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I haven't seen a live project on SourceForge in over a year. FWIW, Homebrew is still at Joe 3.7. The 4.0 source release compiles fine on MacOS/Homebrew if you set LC_ALL=C to work around some sed problem.

I certainly thought about migrating, but not sure it's worth the trouble. SourceForge does have a fork-project button, but I've not tried it and all patch submissions have been in the form of conventional patch files. It sure would be nice if they came in as branches we can merge.

Hmm, I used autoconf from Ubuntu 14.04. Maybe there is an issue with it in MacOS.

Re: Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

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That was the first editor I ever used in Linux back at the university. It was convenient because I had experience with Wordstar in DOS (3.0).

I stopped using it when I had to telnet frequently to a server to do some remote work (circa 1998) and the only editor that was installed was vi. As vi was everywhere and joe wasn't I just switched to vi (and eventually to vim).

I'm happy joe is still around :)

Re: Joe's Own Editor 4.0 Released

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I haven't seen a live project on SourceForge in over a year. FWIW, Homebrew is still at Joe 3.7. The 4.0 source release compiles fine on MacOS/Homebrew if you set LC_ALL=C to work around some sed problem.

Debian Wheezy: just ./configure, make and sudo make install from within the source directory.
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