[cmrdporcupine]

Great memories there, back in the 90s I used to use joe for everything that wasn't editing code. Mainly because it just isn't good at that, it's more of a "word processing" model, with word wrapping and lack of syntax highlighting, etc.

But for writing text documents? Lovely little editor.

[jhallenworld]

You should try a more recent version of it: sudo apt-get install joe

JOE has syntax highlighting, UTF-8, regex, shell windows, hex editing, incremental search, column/rectangular block, macros..