jove mit Homebrew, apt, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• jove
• teachjove

Projektgeschichte

JOVE was created by Jonathan Payne as a compact Emacs-like editor for small Unix systems. The project README emphasizes portability across old and new systems, manual configuration rather than an autoconf-style setup, and historically constrained targets such as PDP-11, DOS, Macintosh, Windows, Cygwin, BSD, Solaris, and Linux.

The distribution's documentation records a long-lived maintenance culture. Jonathan Payne retained overall control while D. Hugh Redelmeier coordinated day-to-day fixes and portability work through the jovehacks mailing list; acknowledgements name contributors who helped with pty code, Berkeley features, PC and Macintosh versions, Win32 support, mouse support, testing, and portability.

Adoptionsgeschichte

JOVE's adoption predates GitHub and modern packaging. It became a recognizable small editor in Unix culture because it offered Emacs-like keybindings and behavior without the size and extension machinery of full Emacs. The input metadata records packaging in Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, Nix, and Ubuntu, showing that the editor remained packagable decades after its early BSD origins.

Wie es verwendet wird

JOVE is used as a terminal text editor for users who want Emacs-like editing with a smaller binary and simpler model. Its documentation includes jove and teachjove manpages, a global jove.rc, a per-user ~/.joverc, and manuals adapted from early Emacs documentation with JOVE-specific changes.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

JOVE is historically significant because it is a living fossil of editor packaging: small enough for constrained Unix systems, Emacs-like enough to matter culturally, and portable enough to survive into modern package managers. It helps explain why Unix repositories still carry multiple Emacs-like editors instead of treating GNU Emacs as the only lineage.

Zeitleiste

• 1982: The GitHub repository description identifies JOVE as originating in this era for 2.8BSD on PDP-11.
• 1986-2002: The README copyright notice covers Jonathan Payne's long maintenance period.
• 2004-07: The README was updated with Unix build and portability guidance.
• 2020: GitHub release metadata begins for the 4.17.2.7 candidate series.
• 2025-05: Release 4.17.5.5 was published on GitHub.

Related projects

• JOVE is related to Gosling Emacs, GNU Emacs, teach-emacs tutorial material, and other small Emacs-like editors such as mg, Zile, and JOE. Its package-manager neighbors are usually classic Unix editors rather than modern IDEs.

Quellen

• https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Jove
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jove
• https://github.com/jonmacs/jove
• https://github.com/jonmacs/jove/releases
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jonmacs/jove/master/README