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- .name
- jove
- .fullname
- Jonathans Own Version of Emacs
- .type
- Text Editing
- .short
- Small but very useful EMACS like editor.
- .description
- JOVE stands for Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs.
-
- JOVE is an advanced, self-documenting, customizable real-time display
- editor. It (and this tutorial introduction) are based on the original
- EMACS editor and user manual written at M.I.T. by Richard Stallman+.
-
- Although JOVE is meant to be compatible with EMACS, and indeed many of
- the basic commands are very similar, there are some major differences
- between the two editors, and you should not rely on their behaving
- identically.
-
- JOVE is considered a display editor because normally the text being
- edited is visible on the screen and is updated automatically as you
- type your commands.
-
- It's considered a real-time editor because the display is updated very
- frequently, usually after each character or pair of characters you
- type. This minimizes the amount of information you must keep in your
- head as you edit.
-
- JOVE is advanced because it provides facilities that go beyond simple
- insertion and deletion: filling of text; automatic indentations of
- programs; view more than one file at once; and dealing in terms of
- characters, words, lines, sentences and paragraphs. It is much easier
- to type one command meaning "go to the end of the paragraph" than to
- find the desired spot with repetition of simpler commands.
-
- Self-documenting means that at almost any time you can easily find out
- what a command does, or to find all the commands that pertain to a
- topic.
-
- Customizable means that you can change the definition of JOVE commands
- in little ways. For example, you can rearrange the command set; if
- you prefer to use arrow keys for the four basic cursor motion commands
- (up, down, left and right), you can. Another sort of customization is
- writing new commands by combining built in commands.
- .version
- 4.16
- .author
- Jonathan Payne
- .distribution
- Copyrighted but Freely Redistributable
- .email
- jpayne@sun.com
- .source
- Includes source.
- .docs
- README
- .described-by
- Fred Fish (fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com)
- .submittal
- From BSD-Lite source distribution.
-