JOE (Joe's Own Editor) is a freeware ASCII editor for UNIX. Joe is similar to most IBM PC text editors. The keyboard combinations are similar to WordStar[tm] and Turbo C. Some of Joe's features include:
-full support of termcap/terminfo (useful for device independent description to control screen output). -optimizing screen refresh even as GNU Emacs (Joe can even be used at 2400 baud). -easy installation. All features for UNIX integration of the VI: a marked block of text can be filtered through a UNIX command; and wherever JOE accepts a filename parameter the following can also be substituted:
!command :to redirect from/to another command
>>filename :to append onto an existing file
filename,start,size :to edit a part of a file/device
- :to use standard input/output
When JOE has several files opened at the same time, each file is displayed in its own window. Additionally, JOE allows for shell-windows whereby the output of the executed commands are saved in a buffer, automatic filename completion (via TAB), help windows, undo-redo, search and replace using regular expressions.