GNU Moe 0.8 RC1 review

GNU Moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean, text editor for ISO-8859-15 and ASCII character encodings. GNU Moe project has a modeless, use

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 56K Developer: Antonio Diaz Diaz

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GNU Moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean, text editor for ISO-8859-15 and ASCII character encodings.

GNU Moe project has a modeless, user-friendly interface, online help, multiple windows, unlimited undo/redo capability, unlimited line length, global search/replace, block operations, automatic indentation, word wrapping, directory browser, duplicate removal from prompt histories...

Moe tries to rationalize the keyboard commands. The Alt key is used for harmless commands like cursor movements and scrolling. The Control key is used for more "dangerous" commands like copying text blocks, deleting lines, or exiting.

The Tab key is used for filename completion and also shows/hides the directory browser. In any case, the unlimited undo/redo capability of Moe makes very difficult to accidentally cause an irreparable damage to your files.

Moe uses the function keys, so that the most frequent commands can be issued with only one finger. The function key F1 shows the online help, and F10 allows you to change the options.

Believe it or not, this paragraph and some experience with text editors is all you need to use Moe just as well as an expert. Forget about `learning curves'; there is nothing to learn.

What's New in 0.7 Stable Release:
A menu of buffers has been added.
A new chapter "Basic concepts" has been added to the manual.
A buffer around "getch()" has been added to speed up pastes.
The efficiency of "append_record" has been improved for consecutive overwrites.
The efficiency of replaces has been improved, especially consecutive ones.
This release allows "reformat paragraph" to be interrupted with Control-C.
A bug has been fixed that showed some special character sequences incorrectly.
A new argument parser that replaces "getopt_long" has been added.

What's New in 0.8 RC1 Development Release:
Rectangular block mode has been added.
Encoding/decoding for Base64, Rot-13, and Rot-47 have been added.
Decoding of Quoted-Printable text has been added.
Decoding of UTF-8 text to ISO-8859-15 and ISO-8859-1 has been added.
A new help key "C-h" has been added. "C-q F2" now shows the number of buffers saved.
The "goto_matching_delimiter" keys were changed to "A-f" and "A-g".
The status line now shows the end of long filenames.
The "configure" and "Makefile.in" files have been modified to be more GNU-standards compliant.