Joe on debian?

grilledsalad · 01-01-2005, 10:37 PM

I've got debian 3.0 installed on my x86 and the only text editor i can run from the command prompt as far as I know is vi. I hate vi, I think its a pain to use. I've used Joe a ton on the Unix lab computers at school. Is there a version of Joe or even somethign similar I can get on Debian? i tried apt-get install joe on a hunch but nothing came up. haha

Thanks in advance!

sls · 01-01-2005, 10:50 PM

Hi

I use nano, pretty easy to use.

Sls

Axo · 01-01-2005, 10:54 PM

Strange, joe came up on my system when I checked apt's cache

Code:

 apt-cache search joe
cl-ubf - Common Lisp Universal Binary Format Library
flight-of-the-amazon-queen - a fantasy adventure game
gidentd - RFC1413 compliant IPv4/IPv6 ident daemon
jftpgw - Joe's FTP Proxy/Gateway
joe - user friendly full screen text editor
lg-issue14 - Issue 14 of the Linux Gazette.
lg-issue60 - Issue 60 of the Linux Gazette.
lg-issue98 - Issue 98 of the Linux Gazette.
libftw0 - Joel's File Tree Walk library
libftw0-dev - Development files for Joel's File Tree Walk library
newbiedoc - Documentation by and for newbies
ttmkfdir - Utility used to create fonts.scale files for TrueType fonts

Maybe try "apt-get update" then check apt's cache again.

Slayer097 · 01-01-2005, 11:03 PM

From the console try mc or pico. Pico is a very simple text editor, and mc isn't much more complex. Both are very common among Linux distributions.

grilledsalad · 01-01-2005, 11:16 PM

Thats very strange..... I did the update for apt-get, but still didn't see Joe in the cache. I tried nano and it works well. I guess i'm going with that from noww on.

Thanks guys =)

heema · 01-02-2005, 04:35 AM

nano is based on pico which are very easy to use
they are the easiest that i used