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JOE-2.9.8

Introduction to JOE

JOE (Joe's own editor) is a small text editor capable of emulating WordStar, Pico, and Emacs.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/joe-editor/joe-2.9.8.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.uni-koeln.de/editor/joe-2.9.8.tar.gz
Download size: 284 KB
Estimated Disk space required: 4.3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.11 SBU

Installation of JOE

Install JOE by running the following commands:

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Configuration files

JOE can make use of several configuration files. Information about these files may be found in the joe man page. These files are /etc/jmacsrc, /etc/joerc, /etc/jpicorc, /etc/jstarrc, and /etc/rjoerc. JOE can also make use of ~/.joerc, which may be copied from /etc/joerc and customized for each user's taste.

The JOE package contains jmacs, joe, jpico, jstar, rjoe and termidx.

Description

jmacs

jmacs is a symbolic link to joe used to launch Emacs emulation mode.

joe

joe is a small text editor capable of emulating WordStar, Pico, and Emacs.

jpico

jpico is a symbolic link to joe used to launch Pico emulation mode.

jstar

jstar is a symbolic link to joe used to launch WordStar emulation mode.

rjoe

rjoe is a symbolic link to joe that restricts JOE to editing only files which are specified on the command-line.

termidx

termidx is a program used by joe to generate the termcap index file.

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