Jove (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)
10 months ago
- #text-editor
- #emacs
- #open-source
- JOVE is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor for Unix-like systems, also supporting MS-DOS and Windows.
- Originally created in 1983 by Jonathan Payne, inspired by Gosling Emacs but simpler and smaller.
- Distributed with several BSD Unix releases, including 2.9BSD, 4.3BSD-Reno, and 4.4BSD-Lite2.
- Latest stable version is 4.16; development release is 4.17.4.4 as of 2022.
- Unlike GNU Emacs, JOVE does not support UTF-8 encoding.