Quoting Assistant Systems Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Thanks for all the answers. I think I'll stick to Pico for now, it does
> the job well. I forgot that word processors like WordStar have their own
> format of text files, which I thought other Word Processors would have. :)
^^^^^^
Joe for Unix (joe-2.8.tar.gz on many mirrors) is a Wordstar workalike
because as originally configured the command keys are just like
Wordstar's. But that is all the similarity. It is multi-buffer, multi-file,
multi-screen, split-screen, cut and paste between buffers, macro programmable,
global-search/replace, small, and unlike Wordstar, writes its output as PLAIN
TEXT file. It can spawn a compiler and capture the error messages, So you can
make it somewhat like an IDE, a primitive one. You can even reprogram its
keystroke command set, and make it work somewhat like emacs.
It does not have color highlighting, chokes on extra large files ( >10MB),
is not a browser, does not have a calculator, etc. In simple language,
it is not emacs.
It works for me because its keystroke command set is familiar and it is
difficult to "teach an old dog a new trick".
//pmana
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