JOVE

JOVE
Jove running on a Debian system
Developer(s)	Jonathan Payne, Hugh Redelmeier
Stable release	4.16 / March 19, 1996 (1996-03-19)
Preview release	4.17.5.3 / March 21, 2023 (2023-03-21)
Repository	github.com/jonmacs/jove
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Text editor
License	Permissive
Website	Stable JOVE FTP site JOVE Development FTP site

JOVE (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)^[1] is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems. It also supports MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. JOVE was inspired by Gosling Emacs but is much smaller and simpler, lacking Mocklisp. It was originally created in 1983 by Jonathan Payne while at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts, United States on a PDP-11 minicomputer.^[2] JOVE was distributed with several releases of BSD Unix, including 2.9BSD, 4.3BSD-Reno and 4.4BSD-Lite2.

As of 2022, the latest development release of JOVE is version 4.17.4.4; the stable version is 4.16. Unlike GNU Emacs, JOVE does not support UTF-8.^[3]

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• GitHub repository
• JOVE Development FTP site
• FSF Free Software Directory entry