jpayne@cs.rochester.edu (Jonathan Payne) (03/18/88)
For all you people who don't know what JOVE is, it's just an emacs style editor. It's not a real EMACS because it doesn't have a built-in language to let you extend the editor in any way that pleases you, but it behaves just like EMACS in many ways. I like it just fine, but I'm biased. JOVE was originally written for small UNIX systems (e.g., pdp11/70) but runs just fine on the bigger systems. It's nice and small, and fast. Recently it was modified to run on the IBM PC (there actually is an older version kicking around for the PC, I know) and even more recently it was modified to run on the macintosh and under the XENIX operating system. I sent the original message to comp.sys.mac (or something like that) and a few other newsgroups that were already familiar with JOVE and got some mail saying "Please post this to comp.sys.mac.programmer." Ever since then I have been getting all sorts of letters from people saying "JOVE may be incredibly wonderful, if only I knew what it was!" So now you all know. Sorry 'bout that. Jonathan Payne