JOVE
| JOVE | |
|---|---|
Jove running on a Debian system | |
| Developer(s) | Jonathan Payne, Hugh Redelmeier |
| Stable release | 4.16
/ March 19, 1996 |
| Preview release | 4.17.5.3
/ March 21, 2023 |
| Repository | |
| 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) 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. 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.