From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis) Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) Date: 28 Sep 1993 12:47:08 GMT
khockenb@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes:
>In article <WESCOTT.93Sep27114652@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu>, wescott@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu (Jeffrey Wescott '95) writes:
>>>>>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 1993 23:20:02 GMT, las@whome.uucp (Laszlo Herczeg) said:
>>
>>> For really small jobs, I am not using the emacs-like editor called
>>> Joe which is absolutely wonderful, and does things like underlining
>>> and centering. It suffices for quick jobs, and has support for 7-bit
>>> and 8-bit characters.
>>
>> Emacs-like!?!? Hahahah! Maybe I am wrong, but isn't JOE ==> "Joe's
>> Own Editor" which is distributed w/ SLS? If so, it is HARDLY like
>> Emacs and more closely resembles Wordstar for DOS. Sorry, I am just a
>> big Emacs fan.
>Maybe he meant "jove", which is an emacs-like editor.
Since joe, jove and emacs are all insert-mode editors that understand
^F,^B,^N,^P,^A and ^E, I would arrange them like:
vi--elvis-----vile-----------------------joe-------------jove---------emacs
(I left out uemacs on purpose because the last couple of versions I tried
did idle-waiting and mucked with the permissions of the files I edited with
it.)
In the above scheme joe would be (sorta) emacs-like.
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