Josip Rodin wrote: > It is THE worst editor to use when you have a terminal with any kind > of illness (and that is my most common situation, for example, I'm typing > this now through Telemate for DOS, and no kind of $TERM can make joe work > without garbling the text).
The reason it has this problem is because it uses its own special terminal data files (/etc/joe/terminfo) instead of the standard ones. This, FYI, is why I sopped using joe. Not only is it buggy if used from a buggy terminal emulator like windoze telnet, it had occasional bugs running in an xterm (not screen display, but failure to reset the terminal properly on exit). -- see shy jo
