Command-line tool

joe

brew/joe

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Full featured terminal-based screen editor

At a glance

Windows

scoop bucket add extras; scoop install extras/joe

macOS

brew install joe

Linux

brew install joe

Open a new file in JOE

joe

Open a specific file

joe path/to/file

Open a specific file, positioning the cursor at the specified line

joe +line path/to/file

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