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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Decent Unix Editors!! (one man's opinion, anyway)
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Date: 25 Apr 91 15:46:00 GMT
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In article <1991Apr25.022931.29753@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>Editor war! Editor war!
>Emacs has....
>vi has....

	Any A3000UX-ers using JOVE?  This Emacs-style editor has been my
favorite workhorse for 6 years.  It's about the same size as vi on my
system (120K; Emacs is 600K), so it starts up very fast, but it has much
of the power/functionality of Emacs.

	I've tried several times to "move up" to Emacs, but I always return
to JOVE.  It's available by anonymous FTP from cs.rochester.edu, in the
file /pub/jove.4.14.Z.  (Don't use "jove.latest...", as it has bugs.)

	I once started porting JOVE to AmigaOS, but gave up because of
excessive #ifdef-ing by previous porters.  (Rendering the code very difficult
to read.)  Maybe I'll pick up the project again someday.

                                                        Dan

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