JOE is a powerful ASCII-text screen editor. It has a
"mode-less" user interface which is similer to many user-
friendly PC editors. Users of Micro-Pro's WordStar or
Borland's "Turbo" languages will feel at home. JOE is a
full featured UNIX screen-editor though, and has many fea
tures for editing programs and text.

JOE also emulates several other editors. JSTAR is a close
immitation of WordStar with many "JOE" extensions. JPICO
is a close immitation of the Pine mailing system's PICO
editor, but with many extensions and improvements. JMACS
is a GNU-EMACS immitation. RJOE is a restricted version
of JOE, which allowes 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 editor with an "rc" appended gives
the name of JOE's initialization file, which determines
the personality of the editor.

JOE is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation. I have no
plans for turning JOE into a commercial or share-ware
product. JOE is available over the Internet by anonymous
FTP from ftp.std.com, file: src/editors/joe*.tar.Z.

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