When one runs joe, it clears the screen and deletes any text that appears, unlike ncurses programs like 'less' which save the screen. This is a bug because I like to use the same virtual console to run joe after I run make and ger errors, for example, then I refer back to the error messages that were printed. I believe the latest joe-2.8-24 still has this problem. Thanks.
I've added it, and it should show up in the next rawhide snapshot It sure needs some testing, though, as I use ncurses to save/restore the screen while joe itself doesn't.