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Does anyone have tips for using the linux text-editor joe? is it available on ssh?

Does anyone have tips for using the linux text-editor joe? is it available on ssh?

"I found a few great features in the joe text editor for the command window:
You can:"

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Guest [Entry]

"So typically, is joe easily available
on many systems?

Easily available? definitely. There are joe packages available for most major distributions. It doesn't usually come preinstalled though so you'd need to install it yourself. I know you want to keep other editors out of the discussion, but vi and nano are much more commonly found on systems. I'd practice one of those as it would be more beneficial to you if you are ever stuck with only command line access to a system. Your chances of one of the two being available are much higher than the joe editor, but it doesn't hurt to expand your knowledge and learn your way around multiple editors."
Guest [Entry]

To echo John's answer, I can tell you that Joe is not on any of the RHEL4, RHEL5 or Solaris10 boxes I administer. Now, I'm the one who set all those up, so that's not a terribly diverse sample. But I would have had to go out of my way to get Joe on there. A quick check indicates it's certainly included in the RHEL5.3 setup discs, but probably not installed without choosing some additional checkboxes during installation. So I wouldn't personally expect to find it on any random machine I came across.