Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Subject: Re: A question for developers Message-ID: <8763cseo4b.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <1d7089c40908121249u75b97303xde1269985f0055e8@mail.gmail.com> (Henry Olyer's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400") References: <4A6A72A6.1030009@ibctech.ca> <4A820F9C.8030709@ibctech.ca> <4A8210D8.4050601@ibctech.ca> <200908111840.05008.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <1d7089c40908121249u75b97303xde1269985f0055e8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Look, use Joe.
>
> You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about
> meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the
> while wishing you had three hands.
That's not a very good way of describing editors/joe. It is unfair both
to other editors and to joe itself.
There *are* good points about joe, eg.:
- It works very well even with pretty dumb terminals.
- It has a very small footprint
- It supports many features a `coder' expects (auto indentation,
custom tab sizes, macros, etc.)
It is much nicer to describe the *good* points about joe, instead of
making silly jokes about keyboard shortcuts in other editors.
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