Joe is world-famous Wordstar like text editor.
Development has moved to Github (link in the toolbar), however Sourceforge still hosts downloads, issues, and mirrors.
License
GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)
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User Reviews
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I love Joe's Own editor, especially Joe's default and Jstar. I love it because I'm not a programmer , I don't code except for some silly, basic bash script (and for this I confess I use nano most of the times), but I write novels, poetry, essays... Jstar is my definitive choice! Sorry to see that this project is no longer updated. Are you planning to carry on the project? Thank you!
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One of the most advanced text editor for console mode.
1 user found this review helpful.
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I use the Jstar variant of JOE for just about all my writing. My fingers are hard-wired for WordStar keystrokes and JOE is about perfect. The only feature I would like to see added is soft (dynamic) carriage returns -- so text would flow for PDF or importing into word processors. Using the "flowed" option in the configuration file (then replacing space/carriage returns with spaces) is a pretty good workaround for this (at least for writing, not sure how well it would work for programming). Still I'll take Jstar with no "dynamic" carriage returns over anything else.
4 users found this review helpful.
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It was my preferable text editor under Linux. Wonder it is available for Windows too.
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Easy, fast and small.
1 user found this review helpful.