Re: Joe's editor, anyone?

Carl Spitzer wrote:

Wordstar for DOS, Carl?????

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 08:21 -0600, Didier Juges wrote:

Newby again :-)

I hope I won't offend anyone (probably too late) but I never got used
to vi and without joe's editor, I am lost.

Why not just install joe? It's the editor I always use from a terminal :-)

$ apt-cache policy joe
joe:
Installed: 3.5-1.1
Candidate: 3.5-1.1
Version table:
*** 3.5-1.1 0
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
--
derek


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