Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

On 2025-05-20, Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> wrote:

On 5/20/2025 1:25 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 20 May 2025 07:54:59 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

     Microsoft also wanted to avoid the “how do I exit vim?” meme, so it
     built its own text editor instead of relying on other available
     options.

 
I'll admit I wondered how to exit vim, or the original vi to be specific,
but that was 45 years or so ago.

In the early 1980s (approximately when you were trapped in the vim maze)
an excited colleague told me I just had to try out some new version of
EMACS running on our PDP10 farm at ISI - I had been using some other
editor. I was having some fun figuring out a few simple commands; then I
tried to exit: ctr x, ctr q, etc. After 15 minutes I screamed for help.
I avoided EMACS after that until a few years latter when I was using the
grown up adult version integrated into the Symbolics Lisp Machine's
development environment. Life had changed for the good.

I'd install "joe" since I'm a WordStar fan.

From the joe manpage....

syntax
       joe [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
       jstar [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
       jmacs [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
       rjoe [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...
       jpico [global-options] [ [local-options] filename ]...

Description
       JOE  is  a powerful console screen editor. It has a "mode-less" user in‐
       terface which is similar to many user-friendly PC editors. Users of  Mi‐
       cro-Pro´s WordStar or Borland´s "Turbo" languages will feel at home. JOE
       is  a full featured UNIX screen-editor though, and has many features for
       editing programs and text.

       JOE also emulates several other editors. JSTAR is a close  imitation  of
       WordStar  with  many "JOE" extensions. JPICO is a close imitation of the
       Pine mailing system´s PICO editor, but with many extensions and improve‐
       ments. JMACS is a GNU-EMACS imitation. RJOE is a restricted  version  of
       JOE,  which  allows  you to edit only the files specified on the command
       line.

       Although JOE is actually five different editors, it still requires  only
       one  executable, but one with five different names. The name of the edi‐
       tor with an "rc" appended gives the name of JOE´s  initialization  file,
       which determines the personality of the editor.

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It does not seem to have vi(m) in there....oh well.

pH in Aptos