JOVE – Jonathan’s Own Version of Emacs (1983)

Summary

########################################################################## # This program is Copyright (C) 1986-2002 by Jonathan Payne. JOVE is # # provided by Jonathan and Jovehacks without charge and without # # warranty. You may copy, modify, and/or distribute JOVE, provided that # # this notice is included in all the source files and documentation. # ########################################################################## [Updated in 2023 Nov] JOVE on UNIX/Linux/MacOS X/*BSD/CygWin Systems ---------------------------------------------- Getting JOVE ------------ JOVE releases are available at http://github.com/jonmacs/jove/ in various source (github's automatically packed tar.gz, or a manually packed .tgz which are essentialy identical, as well as a manually packed .zip or .exe for MS-DOS), and some binary forms for various OS architectures (Linux, DOS, Windows). All distributions include formatted manuals (PDF, text) -- in the doc/ subdirectory for source and some binary, or in share/doc/jove, share/jove or man/man1 (relative to a top-level installation directory, such as /usr or /usr/local) For information about other systems, see the other README files in the source, zip or exe distributions: README.dos for MS-DOS README.win for MS Win32 Quick Summary of Installation ----------------------------- Unpack the tar file somewhere convenient and cd into it: tar xzf jove-VERSION.tgz cd jove-VERSION For old Unix, gunzip this the file on a modern platform, them copy the tar over and use tar xf jove-VERSION.tgz Ensure you have the tools required to build Jove. You need a C compiler (classic Unix cc, gcc or clang should work), the make utility, and basic headers for libc, which may require extra packages on some Linux distributions. Debian, Ubuntu, Mint: apt-get update && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install --no-install-recommends gcc make ncurses-dev pkg-config exuberant-ctags Alpine: apk update && apk add gcc make musl-dev ncurses-dev pkgconfig ctags MacO...