A question for developers

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 01:57:10 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Polytropon<freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>> There *are* good points about joe, eg.:
>>
>>   - It works very well even with pretty dumb terminals.
>>
>>   - It has a very small footprint
>>
>>   - It supports many features a `coder' expects (auto indentation,
>>     custom tab sizes, macros, etc.)
>
> Syntax highlighting! Syntax highlighting! :-)
>
> Other points are automatic file backups, different modes
> (depending on $0) and so on.
>
>
>
>> It is much nicer to describe the *good* points about joe, instead of
>> making silly jokes about keyboard shortcuts in other editors.
>
> If you make jokes, use the recommended ones, such as the
> well-known escape-meta-alt-control-shift key combinations. :-)
>

Don't forget about:
C-x M-c M-butterfly [1]

:-)

[1] - http://xkcd.com/378/

-- 
Glen Barber


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