joe editor

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2015–2017), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with joe editor, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Brace jump ignores nesting and tab inserts random space counts, so editing goes wrong2017-09-24
Couldn't find builds of the editor; code is hosted on SourceForge2017-08-08
Users can't find how to save and exit; help hint is overlooked and Wordstar bindings are hard to learn2015-11-15
Users can't notice the help hint, so they can't figure out how to save and exit2015-11-15