![]() Luckily, JOE lets you cheat on keyboard shortcuts. Editing operations were just as likely as application options to require an escape sequence or not, and few of the letter associations made sense to me ( Ctrl+K D for save as, for instance). Some are prefixed with Ctrl+K as an escape sequence, while others use Esc as the prefix, and still others require no escape sequence at all. I’d never heard of WordStar until I read about it in JOE’s documentation, and to me, it seemed to have a completely arbitrary keyboard shortcut scheme. Keyboard shortcutsįor all the pride JOE’s author takes in simulating a WordStar user experience, I have to admit it’s lost on me. This is a toggle, so once you activate it, the help screen remains displayed at the top of your editor window until dismissed with the same key combo ( ^KH in JOE’s keyboard notation). In the top right corner of JOE’s interface, there’s a persistent reminder that you can press Ctrl+K followed immediately by H to view a help screen. The important thing is that JOE offers help, and it’s easy to reach. This mix of two sources of inspiration can sometimes be disorienting, but then again, weaning yourself off Emacs (or your usual text editor of choice) under any circumstance can be disorienting. JOE also has some of the key bindings and features of GNU Emacs. ![]() Most of its basic editing keys are the same as WordStar shortcuts, and the editor itself strives to approximate WordStar. Welcome to the communityĪccording to its author, JOE takes inspiration from an application called WordStar and from GNU Emacs.
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