Quoting pmana:
> 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.
multi-screen? Hmmm... I didn't know that... That's interesting. Thanks.
> 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.
Hehehe. I should've known. =) How is it done such that to print to
a printer, such formatting would come out - bold, italics, underline. Is
this were TeTex, LaTex, and others come in? Or can joe handle it?
> It works for me because its keystroke command set is familiar and it is
> difficult to "teach an old dog a new trick".
lol
> //pmana
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