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From: dfr@CAD.USNA.MIL ("David F. Rogers")
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Subject: Jove Editor
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Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 14:02:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  8 14:02:01 1987
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G'day,

A number of people seem to be trying to load gnuEMACS on an Iris and
having difficulty.

May I suggest that unless you need the full extensibility of EMACS that
you reconsider your use of it.  There is an alternate editor available
without charge that has nearly all the characteristics of EMACS and uses
considerably less system resources.  I refer, of course, to JOVE
(Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs).

I believe that JOVE is available on the Berkeley 4.3 distribution.
It is also available from brl.

I have been using JOVE on my 2400T for about 3 years with very minor
problems. We also use it as our principal editor for students on our VAX
11/780 graphics support machine (under BSD 4.3), on Suns, on a Gould,
and on IBM-PC's and compatibles. Makes it nice that the same editor
is used across machines. Jove is very fast even on a PC.

Professor David F. Rogers
U. S. Naval Academy
dfr@usna.mil