Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:53:41 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Subject: Re: A question for developers Message-ID: <20090813035341.4b82842d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <8763cseo4b.fsf@kobe.laptop> 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> <8763cseo4b.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > 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.) Syntax highlighting! Syntax highlighting! :-) Other points are automatic file backups, different modes (depending on $0) and so on. > It is much nicer to describe the *good* points about joe, instead of > making silly jokes about keyboard shortcuts in other editors. If you make jokes, use the recommended ones, such as the well-known escape-meta-alt-control-shift key combinations. :-) (Finally, I'm the wrong person to have an opinion here, because I never used emacs much; its magic didn't open up to me. But joe is really a great editor, powerful, and still easy to use.) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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