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 Jove running on aDebian system | |
| Developer(s) | Jonathan Payne, Hugh Redelmeier |
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| Stable release | 4.16 / March 19, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-03-19) |
| Preview release | 4.17.5.3 / March 21, 2023; 23 months ago (2023-03-21) |
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| 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 anopen-source,Emacs-liketext editor, primarily intended forUnix-likeoperating systems. It also supportsMS-DOS andMicrosoft Windows. JOVE was inspired byGosling Emacs but is much smaller and simpler, lackingMocklisp. It was originally created in 1983 by Jonathan Payne while atLincoln-Sudbury Regional High School inMassachusetts, United States on aPDP-11minicomputer.[2]JOVE was distributed with several releases ofBSD 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. UnlikeGNU Emacs, JOVE does not supportUTF-8.[3]
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