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[Updated in September 1995]

Installation on a UNIX System.
------------------------------

To make JOVE, edit Makefile to set the right directories for the binaries,
on line documentation, the man pages, and the TMP files, and select the
appropriate load command (see LDFLAGS in Makefile).  (IMPORTANT! read the
Makefile carefully.)  "paths.h" will be created by MAKE automatically,
and it will use the directories you specified in the Makefile.  (NOTE:
You should never edit paths.h directly because your changes will be undone
by the next make.)

You need to set "SYSDEFS" to the symbol that identifies your system,
using the notation for a macro-setting flag to the C compiler.  For
example, on a Sun running SunOS 4.0, use "SYSDEFS=-DSUNOS40".  The
Makefile describes suitable settings of SYSDEFS for many configurations.
If yours isn't mentioned, use "grep System: sysdep.h" to find all
currently supported system configurations.  If there is no canned
configuration for your system, you will have to define a new symbol and
edit sysdep.h suitably.  See "sysdep.doc" for the possible set of
system-dependent aspects that you can select/tune.

Next you may edit "tune.h" to select the compile time features you care
about.  See "tune.doc" for a description of all the compile time options.
The default options are quite reasonable so, in most cases, you should
leave them alone.  If you are really short on space, or are porting JOVE
to a new system, you may want to define -DBAREBONES in SYSDEFS to avoid
some of the less-portable features of JOVE initially.

You can type "make" to compile "jjove", "portsrv" (this is compiled on
every system, but is only used if JOVE is compiled with the PIPEPROCS
feature selection, typically on UNIX systems without pseudo ttys),
"recover" and "teachjove".  NOTE:  make won't work if it fires up /bin/csh
for the shell commands.  Test jjove to see if it works (remember that it
won't be able to access its subsidiary files until they are installed, so
you will need to call it with "jjove -l . -s doc ..." -- assuming you are
in the main JOVE directory).  If it works, type "make install" to install
everything where it belongs.

Here are some things to consider for deciding where to put the tmp files.
TMPDIR is where the tmp files get stored, usually /tmp or /tmp/jove.  If
your system does not remove subdirectories of /tmp on reboot (lots do remove
them these days) then it makes sense to make TMPDIR be /tmp/jove; otherwise,
/usr/tmp may be better.  But if you use /tmp and want to recover buffers on
system crashes, you should put the lines
    (echo preserving JOVE files)    >/dev/console
    (cd /tmp; /usr/local/lib/jovelib/recover -syscrash) >/dev/console
in the /etc/rc file BEFORE /tmp is cleared, so that you can recover
files after reboots (hint: look for the equivalent code to preserve vi
tempfiles).  There should then be a crontab entry to clear out old files
in /usr/preserve.

If you plan on using JOVE with a xterm, look at doc/XTermresource.
This file contains resource declarations that allow JOVE to respond to
more function keys and mouse gestures.

For the pdp11 version there is the Ovmakefile.  This has only been
tested on 2.9bsd, and not recently.  It worked pretty well, actually,
and it was possible to turn on all the compile time options with this
version.


Some features.
--------------

"doc/jove.rc" and "doc/example.rc" are JOVE initialization files.  "jove.rc"
is the recommended "system" rc file (until you are ready to roll your own,
that is).  It gets read every time JOVE starts up FOR EVERYONE ("make
install" should copy it to the right place automatically).  After that
JOVE reads the initialization file .joverc in the user's home directory.
"example.rc" is my personal .joverc.

The files intro.nr and cmds.nr in the doc directory are the official JOVE
manual.  I got permission from Richard Stallman to use his manual for the
original EMACS, modifying it where necessary for JOVE.  Lots of work was
done by Brian Harvey on this manual.

There are man pages for jove and teachjove.  Teachjove is for people who
have never used EMACS style editors.  It is an interactive tutorial, THE
tutorial written by Stallman for the original EMACS, only slightly
modified for JOVE in the appropriate places.  The man pages are
completely up to date, thanks to me.


Some acknowledgments.
---------------------

Thanks to Jay (hack) Fenlason for writing the original pty code.

Thanks to Dave Curry at Purdue for putting in tons of time and effort
into getting JOVE ready.  It just wouldn't be working without his help.

Thanks to Jeff Mc Carrell at Berkeley for finding bugs and adding
features, in particular, the comment formatter.

Thanks to Karl Gegenfurtner for making the PC version.

Thanks to Ken Mitchum for the Macintosh version.

Thanks to Hugh Redelmeier for his input, his experience, countless bug
fixes, and ... that's it, I guess.

(Thanks to Brian Harvey for teaching me about linked lists ...)

Good luck, have fun.

    Jonathan Payne ([e-mail] until further notice :-)

Thanks to Charles Lindsey for the xjove/jovetool and xterm mouse support.

Thanks to Jim Patterson for the Win 32 port.

Thanks to the other JoveHacks for testing and for contributing numerous
fixes, portability enhancements, and pieces of sage advice.

    D. Hugh Redelmeier ([e-mail])

Changes since 4.16beta
----------------------

- Added the variable paragraph-delimiter-pattern to customize paragraph
  recognition.

- Ported to Win 32 (but not Win 32s)

- Several variables have been renamed to more clearly indicate their function.
  The old name will still work, but eventually it will be eliminated.
    allow-bad-filenames => allow-bad-characters-in-filenames
    display-bad-filenames => display-filenames-with-bad-extensions
    internal-tabstop => tab-width

- Several minor bugs fixed.  Several portability improvements.
  + MSDOS: avoid date rollover problem
  + Borland C: support version 4
  + Borland and Microsoft C: enable HIGHLIGHTING
  + NetBSD: dodge ssize_t redefinition
  + SCO UNIX: use <ctype.h>
  + SunOS + Solaris: make charp effective
  + generic: Ensure screen is maintained during non-interactive processes,
    even if the user has typed ahead

- The xterm mousing interface has been completely revamped.
  Some small ancillary consequences of this are
  + A next-line (prev-line) landing in the middle of a Tab selects the Tab
    character (rather than the following one)
  + A yank-pop is no longer permitted to follow a copy-region.

Changes since version 4.14.6.
-----------------------------

JOVE now works on many newer systems.  For example, it compiles
under Solaris 2.n (SYSDEFS=-DSYSVR4).

The uninstalled binary in the JOVE directory is jjove instead of xjove
(xjove is now something else).

The new command line flag -J inhibits the reading of the global
jove.rc file.  Similarly, -j inhibits ~/.joverc.

JOVE's auxiliary files are kept in two directories (actually, they can be
the same directory).  The sharedir holds the system jove.rc and cmds.doc,
the data used to implement the describe-command and describe-variable
commands; these files are meant to be machine-independent.  The libdir
holds portsrv and recover; these are compiled programs, and are
machine-dependent.

There are three ways JOVE uses to determine each of the directories, two
of them new.  If JOVE was invoked with -l dirname, dirname is taken as
the LibDir; otherwise, if the environment contains JOVELIB, its value is
taken as the LibDir; otherwise, the value of the make variable $(LIBDIR)
when JOVE was compiled is used as LibDir.  Similarly, -s dirname,
JOVESHARE, and $(SHAREDIR) specify ShareDir.  As a shortcut, -ls dirname
specifies both directories.  Now, a good way to test an uninstalled
version of JOVE is to say, within the JOVE directory,
    jjove -s doc -l . other_parameters

A new command "pushlibd" effectively does a pushd command with ShareDir as
the operand.  This is for use within startup files such as jove.rc.

The global startup file is now in doc/jove.rc (was doc/system.rc), so the
-s flag can find it as above.  It contains lots of goodies (you might not
want all of them), including an ability to call up additional TERMinal
specific startup files depending on the $TERM environment variable.
Among other things, these provide support for the many wacky keys that
terminal makers provide.  See doc/README.

The old make-keymap and bind-keymap-to-key commands are no longer needed.
Instead, bind-to-key can accept character strings of any length (they had
better not be a prefix of any other binding).  This enables, among other
things, binding commands to the function keys on Sun keyboards.  Buffer-
specific bindings are now supported (local-bind-* commands).

All system dependencies are now gathered together in the file sysdep.h, to
make it easier to select the bits of code which should or should not be
included for various flavors of UNIX.

The position of the mark is now indicated by underlining it (the position of
point is, of course, indicated by the cursor, so the extent of the region is
now easily seen).  The bad news is that, although this works well on
terminals, underlining is broken in some environments (notably SunView
and the versions of OpenWindows with SUNOS4.1.x and Solaris 2.0 -- Solaris
2.1+ is OK).  For the broken OpenWindows versions, you can include the
following in your .Xdefaults file
    term.boldStyle:                Offset_X_and_Y
    term.underlineStyle:            Same_as_Bold
The stock X11 terminfo entry for xterm was broken until X11R6 in a way that
will cause the screen to be scrambled when JOVE tries to use underlining.
The following fixes to the entry solve this problem and more:
    replace "blink=@," with "blink@,"
    replace "rs2=@" with "rs2@," [note the added comma!]
    add "kf1=\EOP," [if not already be present]
    delete "smul@,"    and "rmul@," [if present]
    add "smul=\E[4m, rmul=\E[m," [xterm does support underlining]

The portion of the buffer visible in the window is now indicated by
"uninverting" a part of the modeline in proportion.  This feature is really
intended for use with "xjove" (described next), and there is a variable
"scroll-bar" to enable it.

xjove is a complete front-end for JOVE which will be found in the directory
xjove (see the README there).  It enables setting of point and mark with the
mouse, cutting and pasting of text via the region, and scrolling by pointing
into the modeline.  It is written using the XView library (supplied with
Suns, or with the X-distribution from MIT); there is also a version for
Sunview known as jovetool.  See its man entry in doc/xjove.nr.

An alternative way of using the mouse is provided in the form of commands
designed to recognize the mouse events coded by Xterm.  These facilities
are not nearly as extensive or convenient as those provided via xjove or
jovetool.

Within SHELL windows, the TERM environment variable is now set to "emacs",
mainly to discourage running programs which might have depended on something
else.  Some shells (tcsh, for example) have specific provisions for the emacs
terminal type.

By default, commands requiring a "y" or "n" response require a Return as
well.  When variable "one-key-confirmation" is set "on", a single
character "y" or "n" is expected.

Some features have been removed.  Marks always float, so the variable
"marks-should-float" is gone.  The IBMPC-specific commands scroll-*-page
are gone.

JOVE is now 8-bit clean (the old behavior can be retained by setting NCHARS
to 128 in sysdep.h, but no known system requires this setting).  In operating
systems with the necessary support (USE_CTYPE set in sysdep.h) it is
possible to set the environment variable LC_CTYPE (or the JOVE variable
lc-ctype) to a "locale" such as "iso_8859_1", whereupon characters with the
8th bit set sent from the keyboard (using the Alt Graph key, or the Compose
key, or the Meta key, or whatever the particular hardware provides) will be
displayed correctly, and will be treated as upper/lower case, etc in the
correct manner.  The default locale is "C", which reverts to 7-bit ASCII with
the top 128 characters being displayed in octal.

The format of the "jrec" file has changed.  This means that previous
versions of recover cannot deal with the files left by crashes of the new
JOVE, and vice versa.

Here is a list of reasons why your .joverc might no longer work.  JOVE
places diagnostics about the user and system .joverc files in the buffer
"RC errors".

- JOVE no longer ignores extra stuff on the end of binding commands.

- All keymap creation is implicit.  You no longer can or need to create
  new keymaps explicitly.

- auto-execute-command no longer magically supplies a numeric argument
  for its command.  If the command is intended to set a mode, you should
  supply the argument.  If you don't set the numeric argument, the mode
  will be flipped.  Here is an example from the system jove.rc:
    1 auto-execute-command c-mode .*\.[chy]$

- Within regular expressions, alternatives are separated by "\|".
  Previously, alternatives within braces were separated by ",".
  For example, "/tmp/\{Re,article,rnmail,pn\}" must be changed to
  "/tmp/\{Re\|article\|rnmail\|pn\}".

- auto-execute-command and auto-execute-macro both require explicit
  patterns.  Previously, the pattern would default to match every filename.

- Certain commands and variables have been eliminated or renamed:

    bind-keymap-to-key, make-keymap, process-bind-keymap-to-key --
        no longer needed
    unbind-key -- bind the "unbound" command instead
    marks-should-float -- they always do now
    physical-tabstop -- now picked up from termcap
    scroll-next-page, scroll-previous-page -- IBM PC only, and useless
    background-color => background-attribute -- IBM PC only
    foreground-color => foreground-attribute
    mode-line-color => mode-line-attribute

- On the IBM PC, the Delete key now generates the ASCII DEL character;
  Control-@ and Control-Space now generate the ASCII NUL character.


Known problems
--------------

In an interactive process buffer, JOVE sometimes fails to receive an
end-of-file through the pseudo-tty.  In this case, the process window
will not be considered done, even though the child and all its
ancestors are dead.  The only consequences are that the status
display continues to report that the process is not done and that
another process may not be started up in that buffer.  This only
happens on certain systems, and we think that they are at fault.

If a window-find command is issued while the current window's lines
are numbered, the numbering may become wrong temporarily.  We are
working on this bug.

JOVE can not handle lines longer than JBUFSIZ characters (usually 1024,
but 512 on some small systems).  Eliminating this limit is not easy.

JOVE can not handle NUL characters in the buffer.  In most cases,
they are discarded silently, another dubious feature.


Bug Reports and Maintenance.
----------------------------

Although Jonathan Payne still takes a fatherly interest in JOVE and retains
overall control, the hassle of day-to-day bug-fixing, sifting of new
features, and maintenance of general cleanliness is now co-ordinated by Hugh
Redelmeier ([e-mail]).

The mailing list [e-mail] forwards mail to the group of
people who develop and maintain JOVE.  We welcome submissions to
jovehacks, for example:

- queries and suggestions about support for additional systems

- bug reports (we may already have an explanation or fix)

- suggestions for and implementations of improvements or additional
  features (we do try to keep JOVE small)

The "official" FTP site and directory for JOVE is:
    ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/moraes/jove
Look here for the most recent releases of JOVE.

Hugh will report all significant new releases to comp.editors and
comp.emacs.