A question for developers

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer <henry.olyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Look, use Joe.
>
> You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about
> meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the
> while wishing you had three hands.

That's not a very good way of describing editors/joe.  It is unfair both
to other editors and to joe itself.

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.)

It is much nicer to describe the *good* points about joe, instead of
making silly jokes about keyboard shortcuts in other editors.