Moe - A powerful and user-friendly text editor

Introduction

GNU Moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean, console text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII character encodings. It has a modeless, user-friendly interface, online help, multiple windows, unlimited undo/redo capability, unlimited line length, global search/replace (on all buffers at once), block operations, automatic indentation, word wrapping, file name completion, directory browser, duplicate removal from prompt histories, delimiter matching, text conversion from/to UTF-8, romanization, etc.

UTF-8 is a great tool for tasks like writing books of mathematics or mixing Greek with Chinese in the same document. But for many other everyday computing and communication tasks, an 8-bit code like ISO-8859-15 is much more practical, efficient and reliable. There is no such thing as an "invalid" or "out of range" ISO-8859-15 character.

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 file name completion and also shows/hides the directory browser when moe asks for a file name to save or load. 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 almost as well as an expert. Forget about "learning curves"; there is nothing to learn.

Documentation

The manual is available in the info system of the GNU Operating System. Use info to access the top level info page. Use info moe to access the moe section directly.

An online manual for moe can be found here.

Download

The latest released version of GNU Moe can be found at http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/moe/ or in the subdirectory /gnu/moe/ on your favorite GNU mirror. For other ways to obtain moe, please read How to get GNU Software. The latest released version will be the most recent version available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/moe/.

Old versions and testing versions can be found at http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/moe/.

How to Get Help

For general discussion of bugs in moe the mailing list bug-moe@gnu.org is the most appropriate forum. Please send messages as plain text. Please do not send messages encoded as HTML nor encoded as base64 MIME nor included as multiple formats. Please include a descriptive subject line. If all of the subject are "bug in moe" it is impossible to differentiate them.

An archive of the bug report mailing list is available at http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-moe.

How to Help

To contact the author, either to report a bug or to contribute fixes or improvements, send mail to bug-moe@gnu.org. Please send messages as plain text. If posting patches they should be in unified diff format against the latest version. They should include a text description.

See also the moe project page at Savannah.

Licensing

Moe is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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Updated: $Date: 2015/05/06 12:14:34 $ $Author: antonio $