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Comment by nkkollaw | Hacker News Reader

Very cool. I thought Nano would perform much better..?

A problem with some fast editors might be ease of use. For instance, I would have loved to try out JOE editor, but I couldn't find builds, the code is hosted on Sourceforge, etc. etc.

I think a huge feature for an editor is usability: is there a website where I can download a build for my OS? Does it update by itself? Is it easy to configure, install plugins, etc.?

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Assuming you are on a proper OS, it comes with your distribution, e.g. via Ubuntu it's just

  $ apt install joe

And it's ready (obviously you might want to configure it differently than the default).

I agree with you about a package manager being a good OS feature, but this is unnecessary snark when the two most popular operating systems don't come with a package manager (of this sort, at least).

For what it's worth, `sudo apt install joe` works fine on my windows machine. :)

Joke aside, that didn't install a Windows program, and I'm willing to bet the WSL wasn't installed by default either, and I'll also bet that didn't work in a Windows command prompt.

So "proper" as in "the one(s) almost no one uses"?

You can install JOE on macOS through homebrew. Running "brew install joe" begins installing version 4.4

Nice.

Thanks.

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