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- From: jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.os.linux,alt.religion.emacs
- Subject: JOE 1.0.0 IS FINALLY DONE
- Message-ID: <Bxty5C.CL1@world.std.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:22:24 GMT
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- The rewrite of JOE is finally done. JOE Version 1.0.0 is here!
-
- You can get it from:
-
- tsx-11.mit.edu in pud/linux someplace
- world.std.com in the incomming directory
- VWIS Linux BBS (508)793-9568 in packages/joe.tar.Z
-
- I'll post again as soon as I know where it is exactly :-)
-
- Send email to 'jhallen@word.std.com' or to 'rcarter' on the VWIS Linux BBS
-
- I apologize to all those people who I promised that joe would be done
- real-soon-now. I knew that it only take me a few weeks to finish it, but I
- could never seem to get down to it... things like work school and
- procrastination kept interfering... 2000 lines of JOE took a year and a
- half and the remaining 18000 took the last month.
-
- This release is kind of a beta test of the rewrite. Not everything I
- promised to implement is done yet, but most things are.
-
- These are the new features:
-
- TERMCAP/TERMINFO support
-
- Joe will now work on any termcap terminal (except for
- overstrike terminals). A new termcap library is supplied which can use an
- index file to make it faster than terminfo. A number of terminfo extensions
- are supported and the GNU extensions to the termcap language are supported.
- JOE is not picky about the completeness of the termcap entries. It should
- work even better than vi in this respect.
-
- Improved scrolling
-
- Necessary scrolling is detected at a lower level in the
- editor. All edit commands will scroll if they need to.
-
- Better UNIX integration
-
- Every place in joe which accepts a file name (including the
- command line) will also accept:
-
- !command to pipe into or out of a command
- >>filename to append to a file
- filename,start,size to edit a portion of a file/device
- - to use stdin or stdout
-
- Also, filenames on the command line may be preceeded by +nnn
- to start editing at a specified line.
-
- Improved orthoganality
-
- Each prompt is actually a normal edit buffer and a copy of a
- history buffer. You can use all of the normal edit commands to edit the
- file names and search strings. You can use the up arrow key (and search
- backwards or any other normal edit command) to get back previous responses.
-
- New buffering system
-
- Joe now uses a doubly linked list of gap buffers which can
- spill into /tmp directory files. You can edit files of any size up to the
- amount of free disk space and there are no line length restrictions.
-
- 16-bit system support
-
- This is not quite done, but joe was written so that it will
- eventually work well on xenix 286 and msdos.
-
- File name selection menus
-
- If you hit tab in a file name prompt, a menu of matching
- names will appear.
-
- New help system
-
- When you ask for help, you get a menu of help screens to
- choose from (all definable in the .joerc file). Also in certain places
- the help is context sensitive.
-
- The edit commands are improved:
-
- - search and replace system uses powerful regular expressions
- including matching of balanced C expressions
-
- - undo and redo now apply to complete edit commands. If you
- accidently reformat paragraph on your C code, you only
- have to hit undo once.
-
- - a position history is supplied so you can to next/prev. place
-
- - multiple keyboard macros can be defined
-
- Many options are supplied:
-
- row and column numbers can be shown on status line
- emacs style cursor recentering on scrolls
- characters between 160-254 can be shown as-is
- Ctrl and Meta chars can be displayed in joe or emacs style
- Final newline can be forced on end of file
- Can start with help on
- No. pgup/pgdn lines to keep can be specified
- Left margin as well as right margin can be specified
-
- Joe will soon have:
-
- Hex dump edit mode
- Fixed record length edit mode
- Rectangular blocks
- Tag search and goto line with error
- and maybe xedit style folding commands
-
- /* jhallen@world.std.com */ /* Amazing */ /* Joseph H. Allen */
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-