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From: joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What is JOVE?
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Date: 3 Feb 89 02:32:21 GMT
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Reply-To: joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota)
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In article <216100081@trsvax> earl@trsvax.UUCP writes:
> Brynn Rogers asked:
>> I have heard a number of people talk about JOVE.
>> Can some one tell me what it is/does?
>
> JOVE == "Jonathan's Own Video Editor".
>
> It is a C programming enviroment text editor. It is used on UNIX, XENIX
> computer systems primarily. It is big. But it has a lot of nice features
> that lend it well to C programming. If you're a real fanatic you can
> download the sources and recompile it (lots of changes and debugging tricks
> here) and get it to work under MS-DOS.

This is generally false.

Firstly, I'm qualified to say this because the Jonathan Payne, who wrote
it, is a friend of mine.

Jove stands for "Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs".  It was conceived and
written on UNIX 2.9BSD on a PDP-11/70 originally.  That it is primarily
used on XENIX systems is not necessarily the case - it's quite at home on
nearly every version of UNIX you can find, as well as the PC and the Mac.

It's not huge, especially when compared with something like GNU Emacs.  It
is GREAT for C programming, and has lisp-mode for nice automatic lisp-style
indenting as well.  I use it for absolutely everything on every system I
ever use.  It's fast, elegant, clean, and very powerful and customizable.

You generally don't have to do ANYTHING to the source to get it to compile
on a PC, provided that you have MSC 5.0 and NDMAKE.  I should qualify that.
Version 4.9 was the last version that had PC-compatible code in it.  4.11 is
available now for UNIX systems, but much of the keymapping code was redone
in the process and 4.11 sources will not yet compile on the PC.  But it's
coming.  In any case, I'm not sure what the latest version on Simtel20 is,
but if it's 4.9 then you should be able to just unarchive it and compile it,
unchanged.

It's a GREAT editor.  Try it.  It's copyrighted, but there's no charge for
its use.

> If you liked EMACS or Micro-Emacs or GNU-Macs, or XVIEW you would likely
> really love it as a editor and working enviroment.

This is true.  Even on DOS you can run processes in windows, etc.

Josh
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