Hello again all.
Here's another exclusive for our friends: the JOE editor, v. 4.4, the latest
as of this writing. Compiled on this Puduan 6 Pup, so the same remarks
apply as for the grep-3.0 compilation described in the post above.
For those of you who may not know this great text editor, there's quite
a good article at
LinuxInsider.
For more info generally about JOE:
url]
http://www.ask.com/web?qsrc=1&o=0&l=dir ... archTopBox[/url]
The interest of having an editor like JOE as a tool on your Puppy system
is that it can be called both from the command line and from your WM
menu as a window (please see illustration attached).
Once you're accustomed to JOE's key combos, you can use it in both
environments quite efficiently. This way, you can even use it if you're
stuck at the initial black console and need to modify something in a script.
You can use it to compose a program in bash or several other languages,
as well as to whip up the text of an e-mail for your club members.
It's so evolved as an editor that it even has a quick "math service" line if
you need one! But please read some of the reviews mentioned above:
they'll explain JOE's features much better than I could.
Any constructive feedback about this compilation and pet archive is
welcome, of course.
Enjoy!
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Various Notes --
1) The help panel shown in the illustration below is activated by typing
Cntrl-K-H, and the text features panel is activated by typing Cntrl-T.
2) The DOC archive contains a menu item that when clicked will bring up
joe's three (3) docs in your html viewer (such as dillo or links2).
3) In WM use, a small console will show up next to the main joe window.
It's meant to help you do file management or change directories easily
without disturbing your writing in joe.
4) To reassemble the 2 parts of the pet of the JOE exec attached below,
please open a terminal in your download directory and type
Code: Select all
cat xa* > joe-4.4_exec.pet
petget joe-4.4_exec.pet
Or cliick on the re-assembled pet from within a ROX-Filer panel to install it.
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