JOVE

Jove running on a Debian system

Developer(s)| Jonathan Payne, Hugh Redelmeier
Stable release|

4.16 / March 19, 1996; 30 years ago (1996-03-19)

Preview release|

4.17.5.3 / March 21, 2023; 3 years ago (2023-03-21)

Operating system| Cross-platform
Type| Text editor
License| Permissive
Website| Stable JOVE FTP site
JOVE Development FTP site

JOVE (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)[1] is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems. It also supports MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. JOVE was inspired by Gosling Emacs but is much smaller and simpler, lacking Mocklisp. It was originally created in 1983 by Jonathan Payne while at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts, United States on a PDP-11 minicomputer.[2] JOVE was distributed with several releases of BSD Unix, including 2.9BSD, 4.3BSD-Reno and 4.4BSD-Lite2.

As of 2022, the latest development release of JOVE is version 4.17.4.4; the stable version is 4.16. Unlike GNU Emacs, JOVE does not support UTF-8.[3]

## See also

* List of text editors
* Comparison of text editors

## External links

* GitHub repository
* JOVE Development FTP site
* FSF Free Software Directory entry

## References

1. ↑ "JOVE - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs". AuditMyPC.com. http://www.auditmypc.com/acronym/JOVE.asp.
2. ↑ Jonathan Payne (1983-04-04). "Weird file names and ..." Newsgroup: net.unix-wizards. Retrieved December 5, 2014. "message-id:bnews.sri-arpa.940"
3. ↑ Jove doesn't support utf-8, feature request from Debian's Bug Tracking System.

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