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I think it’s a reference to Alan Dye, who screwed design and usability of xOS 26 so epically that an app like Alan became necessary.

Pretty close if you start it with `jstar` instead of `joe`


JOE is pretty nice https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/ — a hybrid of WordStar and Emacs, and if you run it with `jstar` you get a pretty authentic WordStar experience which also feels like the earliest Borland Turbo IDEs.


I used to love JOE! Maybe that's why, because it had echoes of WordStar. I just wrote an article about how I still use the "WordStar Diamond" keys in Linux today: https://benhoyt.com/writings/wordstar-diamond/


Yes! The first word processor I used was Wordstar (under CP/M). My first programming environment was Borland Turbo Pascal. Later, I used "QEdit", which was configurable to use the wordstar keys.

When I finally migrated from DOS to Unix, in the early 90s, I was delighted to discover JOE. It is the first program I install on any new Linux or *BSD box or VM.

JOE has syntax highlighting and several other nice features these days. I have therefore never felt the need to get proficient with vi or emacs.


Great memories there, back in the 90s I used to use joe for everything that wasn't editing code. Mainly because it just isn't good at that, it's more of a "word processing" model, with word wrapping and lack of syntax highlighting, etc.

But for writing text documents? Lovely little editor.


You should try a more recent version of it: sudo apt-get install joe

JOE has syntax highlighting, UTF-8, regex, shell windows, hex editing, incremental search, column/rectangular block, macros..


Are the differences between the modes and their keybindings not documented in the manual?

Probably I'm just stupid and overlooked them, but I really don't see anything.


Yup! I often invoke it with "jmacs" to get the emacs keyboard shortcut set.


native-mode joe is closer to zde/vde than wordstar, although jstar obviously slides that closer to wordstar.


Marked 2 https://marked2app.com/ is a dedicated viewer for Markdown and other text formats, but it's Mac only.


You wouldn't want to get your expensive Vision Pro all sweaty now, would you


But it should be sweat resistant, no? All the top VR games involve movement.

If Apple really is going to treat the headset’s gaming story as connect a PlayStation controller and play Apple Arcade games on a virtual screen I’ll be disappointed


That's what I did and this was the reply: "For now, we are gradually providing the community license to existing applicants, so currently we cannot say how soon we start giving the x86 license to new users. Still, we recommend you to wait until the new form is available and apply for a personal license."



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