> These days JOE (Joe's Own Editor) still uses a similar keyset.

joe is definitely among the easiest CLI/TUI editors there are.

EvanAnderson 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I remember finding joe back in the 90s, having come to Linux from mainly DOS, and bring overjoyed. The little Unix I'd used up to that point (mainly Xenix and a little SCO) had me using ed, which was enough like old DOS EDLIN that I could manage. When I found myself in vi I'd just hang up the modem because I never could figure out how to get out of it. >smile<

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icedchai 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Back in the 90's, "pico" was always the go-to editor for those who didn't want to mess around with emacs or vi.

	▲	technothrasher 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Jove was the big editor on campus at the University of Rochester back in the very early 90's, mostly because Jonathan Payne, who wrote it, attended the school. When I got there I pushed for Joe adoption because it was a simpler editor for the less geeky undergraduate users to use. Pico never really was a phenomenon there at the time.