On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keram...@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, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
