#macroblog #lelelele after a while of looking for GNU Emacs alternatives and simply learning more about editors surrounding me, since I was kind of getting annoyed with Emacs' performance and my Elisp file was messy beyond repair, I decided to visit a very old friend of mine: Joe.

I remember I used Joe with the wordstar bindings when I was a wee lad and somehow they still seem to click, just need to peep the Help pane again. No real reason why, I think i just didn't like Vi keybinds and Emacs was overwhelming at the time (I never liked Vi, personally. I am less efficient in Vi and I much prefer a mode-less environment). Wordstar keybinds are IMO a little bit nicer than Emacs, because I can still throw in any Emacs habits I developed, but Joe doesn't rely as much on sequential bindings for essentiall-er things, or rather, things that I often do. Most it uses is Ctrl-k, but a lot of commonly done things are a single keystroke, whereas with Emacs some commonly done things required pressing Ctrl-x or Ctrl-space (for marking)

All the little tiny things that I truly care about are 100% supported in Joe, mainly... to read man pages + I can pipe in any unix command i want. The config syntax is ugly, much like Vimscript; but I suppose it's because it's not designed to be heavily scripted. It even has compiling which is perfectly all I need :hapyday:, although usually I just compile straight from the term...

There'll probably be a thing or 2 of slops that I'll miss from GNU Emacs, but there are some things I won't miss: it being a fucking OS. Unfortunately I fell for the org-mode meme so that's gonna hurt. GNU Emacs feels (unironically saying this btw) like you're kind of locked down to it with things like Org-mode and GDB. I also spent a little bit of time procrastinating by editing my configs, but... with Emacs there's too much to edit and too much I want to do that it actually distracts me from getting work done

I'll still keep GNU Emacs so I can read my emails. Yeah, I don't even want to use it as a text editor any more :catCry: