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From: seamans@nlm-mcs.arpa (James R. Seamans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What is JOVE?
Keywords: JOVE
Message-ID: <8891@nlm-mcs.arpa>
Date: 1 Feb 89 18:56:16 GMT
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Reply-To: seamans@nlm-mcs.UUCP (James R. Seamans)
Organization: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md
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JOVE stands for  Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs

From the Manual -

Jove is an advanced, self-documenting, customizable real-time
display editor.

With that aside I've been using JOVE on a PC for the last three years
without exception of document.  Here at the National Library of Medicine,
JOVE is catching on with most of the programmers (30).  We have recently ported
ver 4.9 to Sun3, Sun4, VAX780 and of course the PC.  One of the nicer features
is that is behaves the same without regard to the system one is currently on.
You do not need to relearn key mappings they are the same for each system.
That claim would be diffcult to make with most editors or word processors.