# 使用 Homebrew, apt, MacPorts, Nix 安装 jove

查看 jove 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。

## 安装

```sh
sudo av install brew:jove
```

其他安装命令:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install jove
```

  证据: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install jove
```

  证据: MacPorts ports tree: editors/jove/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install jove
```

  证据: Debian stable package indexes: jove from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#jove
```

  证据: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/jo/jove/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## 软件包事实

- **软件包键:** brew:jove
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **版本:** 4.17.5.5
- **来源摘要:** Emacs-style editor with vi-like memory, CPU, and size requirements
- **主页:** <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Jove>
- **仓库:** <https://github.com/jonmacs/jove>
- **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 可执行文件

- jove (别名)
- teachjove (别名)

## 安装行为

- Bottle: 不可用

## 版本和新鲜度

- 页面生成时间: 2026-08-03
- 管理器版本: 4.17.5.5
## 项目历史与用法

JOVE, Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs, is a small Emacs-style editor with roots in early BSD Unix. The maintained GitHub repository describes it as a venerable 1982, fast, small Emacs clone originally written for 2.8BSD on a PDP-11.

### 项目历史

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.

### 采用历史

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.

### 使用方式

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.

### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心

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.

### 时间线

- 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.

### 来源

- <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>


## 安全说明

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger 风险:** 绿色 / 低
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.joverc
## 其他软件包管理器记录

- Debian apt - jove - 4.17.5.4-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: jove from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful editor | https://github.com/jonmacs/jove
- Nix - jove: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/jo/jove/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - jove - 4.17.5.3-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: jove from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful editor | https://github.com/jonmacs/jove
- MacPorts - jove: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: editors/jove/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/jove.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/jove.yml)


## 来源

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
