Short:        Small but very useful EMACS like editor. V4.16
Author:       jpayne@sun.com (Jonathan Payne)
Type:         dev/ade
Version:      4.16
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
Origin:       Amiga Development Environment, ftp.ninemoons.com:pub/ade

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.