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{{other uses|Jove (disambiguation)}}

{{More citations needed|date=May 2009}}

{{Infobox software

| name = JOVE

| logo =

| screenshot = Jove Text Editor Screenshot.png

| caption = Jove running on a Debian system

| developer = Jonathan Payne, Hugh Redelmeier

| latest_release_version = 4.16

| latest_release_date = {{start date and age|1996|03|19}}

| latest_preview_version = 4.17.5.3

| latest_preview_date = {{start date and age|2023|03|21}}

| operating_system = Cross-platform

| genre = Text editor

| license = Permissive

| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180823232727/http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu:80/cs/ftp/pub/moraes/jove/ Stable JOVE FTP site]

[https://web.archive.org/web/20180823232722/http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu:80/cs/ftp/pub/hugh/jove-dev/ JOVE Development FTP site]

}}

JOVE (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs){{cite web | url = http://www.auditmypc.com/acronym/JOVE.asp | title = JOVE - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs | publisher = AuditMyPC.com | access-date = 2009-05-23}} is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems. It also supports MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. JOVE was inspired by Gosling Emacs but is much smaller and simpler, lacking Mocklisp. It was originally created in 1983 by Jonathan Payne while at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts, United States on a PDP-11 minicomputer.{{cite newsgroup

|title=Weird file names and ...

|author=Jonathan Payne

|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/net.unix-wizards/9bPrVuHYlo8/s5Wm4N2-6KQJ

|newsgroup=net.unix-wizards

|quote=message-id:bnews.sri-arpa.940

|date=1983-04-04

|accessdate=December 5, 2014}}

JOVE was distributed with several releases of BSD Unix, including 2.9BSD, 4.3BSD-Reno and 4.4BSD-Lite2.

As of 2022, the latest development release of JOVE is version 4.17.4.4; the stable version is 4.16. Unlike GNU Emacs, JOVE does not support UTF-8.[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678849 Jove doesn't support utf-8], feature request from Debian's Bug Tracking System.