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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Decent Unix Editors!! (one man's opinion, anyway)
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Date: 25 Apr 91 23:10:05 GMT
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In article <8140@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:

	   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.

Emacs starts up pretty fast on the NeXT.  On a SparcStation, there
really isn't much of a perceivable difference b/w the time it takes vi
to startup and Emacs to startup.  I have vi aliased to emacs -nw -q.

	   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.)

Jove is missing two key features(IMHO), an undo and an incremental search.
Skip Jove, go directly to Emacs.

-Mike