Re: Data Keeps Piling Up

[Fraser Farrell <fraser@trilobytes.com.au>]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 05:05, Chris Albertson wrote:
> Other then that I use "nedit" which BTW comes from Fermi Lab.
> The text files don't care what you used
>
> If you could learn DOS and (what was it called) "edline"? you
> can learn UNIX and vi.  They are not that much different.

Or, if you cut your wordprocessing teeth on WordStar or its many clones 
(including the code editors in Turbo Pascal, Turbo C etc) a few years ago, 
then you may prefer "joe". Which uses almost all the same CTRL-whatever 
keystrokes to do things. 

Joe needs only a text-mode terminal, works fine through Telnet or SSH 
connections, and can edit big files even in low-memory systems. It is 
included with most Linuxes but it may not have got installed by default.

I liked joe well enough to get rid of vi (and emacs) on the systems I 
administer.


cheers,
Fraser Farrell