jupp – the Editor which sucks less

The current version is joe-3.1jupp9. This page is accessible under http://mirbsd.de/jupp canonically.

Note: this page is under construction and will be adjusted to the quality of the mksh page soon.

About

This is the portable version of JOE’s Own Editor, which is currently developed at sourceforge, licenced under the GNU General Public License, Version 1, using autoconf/automake. This version has been enhanced by several functions intended for programmers or other professional users, and has a lot of bugs fixed. It is based upon an older version of joe because these behave better overall.
jupp also does come with the editor flavours known from joe, specifically, jmacs, joe, jpico, jstar, and rjoe. Not all features of jupp are available for these though (but all the bugfixes, and syntax highlighting is still enabled by default for these, while it is not auto-enabled in jupp).

Kudos to Joe H. Allen for bringing me a better WordStar™-compatible editor than Intergalactic Digital Research, DR Editor R2.00, DR DOS 5 (and its predecessor from DR DOS 3.41).

Features

Basic differences between joe and jupp are:

obviously, another flavour, jupp, similar to jstar
utf-8 support on non-locale-aware OSses
bug and security fixes
tab completion fixes
code cleanup
compiles with -Wall -Werror (on MirBSD)
improved options menu
visibled spaces

Retrieval

Direct download

You can download jupp at least from one of the following mirrors:

Please do not forget to check the received file’s integry using both gzsig(1) and one of the hashes below:

RMD160 (joe-3.1jupp9.cpio.gz) = b9eb0ebf1dd06236a3b5469f0b0740fc043b6788
1804984473 406368 /MirOS/dist/jupp/joe-3.1jupp9.cpio.gz
MD5 (joe-3.1jupp9.cpio.gz) = 39018a33e210480595020ecf0870e160
TIGER (joe-3.1jupp9.cpio.gz) = 9dae4095b40c607e344b14dae0c5ae13eb960732d4fcbb69

Unpacking

Use a command like
$ tar xzf joe-3.1jupp9.cpio.gz # paxtar, bsdtar
$ gzip -dc joe-3.1jupp9.cpio.gz | cpio -mid # any cpio
$ pax -r -z <joe-3.1jupp9.cpio.gz # any POSIX® archiver
$ gzip -dc joe-3.1jupp9.cpio.gz | pax -r # on MS Windows®
to extract the distfile.

Some browsers already extract the file during downloading; skip the decompression stage then.

Anonymous CVS

You can check out the sources with the following command:

$ env CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.mirbsd.org:/cvs co -PA jupp

Installation

jupp uses GNU autotools, so a command line sequence like the following should be enough to build it:

$ env CFLAGS='-O2 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing …' \
 mksh configure [--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc] --disable-dependency-tracking
$ make
$ $SUDO make install

This works with both BSD and GNU make. The original joe 2.8 also was able to be built on MS-DOS or DR DOS; I’d be interested if someone managed to do this with jupp 3.x and if Unicode support were working there.

Binaries

Note: due to a server problem on the mirror, the binaries are unavailable at this time. Please check back later.

Currently, there are no precompiled binaries for Unix®ish systems available. But we offer the following:

JUPP 2.8 for MS-DOS® (16-bit, should work on 8086), self-extracting LHarc archive, copy jupp.exe and jupprc to your DOS directory (OpenPGP signature)
JOE 3.1jupp6 for Windows® (cygwin stand-alone compiled, comes with its own copy of cygwin1.dll and a .inf file for easy installation), self-extracting LHarc archive, right-click on setup.inf, select Install, wait a few seconds, remove directory (OpenPGP signature)

This list may change in the future. Please note that jupp 2.8 almost only differs from joe 2.8 by the presence of the new mode (i.e., the jupprc file), and that the new features and bugfixes started to appear in the jupp 3.x versions only.

Wishlist

It’d be cool if jupp could…

look for ${0}rc in $(dirname $0)/
use `r## in UTF-8 mode to insert raw octets in the same manner as `x## does in 8-bit mode, since in UTF-8 mode, `x#### inserts a Unicode character

ChangeLog

Changes for joe-3.1jupp9:

Synchronise certain files with upstream: licence cleanup, gets rid of the advertising clause and mksh dependency in some helper files, fixes portability to e.g. Solaris
Build fixes for AIX, gcc (thanks Adam "replaced" Hoka)
Remove CR (DOS line endings) on ^K] as well in jupprc

Changes for joe-3.1jupp8:

Bugfix (maybe) for backspace deleting more than it should when smart backspaces or auto-indent are off
In UTF-8 mode, display illegal characters as reversed (inverse) underlined U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, one per octet (if these form a valid part of an invalid multibyte sequence, the first valid octets are not necessarily individually selectable)
In UTF-8 mode, don't display the decimal ASCII value of a wide character; display the correct UCS-2 hex value (or <-2> for an invalid sequence or the 8-bit hex value of the octet for an invalid octet or invalid one-octet multibyte sequence) instead
Upgrade to latest MirOS licence template

Changes for joe-3.1jupp7:

Bugfix in bundled strlcat() implementation
Bugfix (off-by-one array bounds) in from_uni()
New option "vispace" to make spaces and tabs visible, like in Microsoft® Works®. Works best with Unicode.
"noxon" and "baud" are now menu entries; these two and "keepup" have been moved to the top so they can be switched quickly if you're in an ssh situation
Disable funny behaviour of keys in menus, fixes POLS
Reduce memory usage a little
In the options menu, if "return" is hit instead of entering a value, and it is not a string, it's handled sensitively: numbers keep their value, syntax gets unset, and encoding gets reset to the fdefault map.
Nicely format the options menu (as columns); print values for the syntax and encoding options as well in the oversight, use ellipsis for strings which aren't displayed otherwise
Spelling fixes in the options menu
Honour internationalisation framework of MirOS #9-current and newer

Changes for joe-3.1jupp6:
Non-code (documentation) updates. Regenerate externally fetched files and autotools stuff.

Changes for joe-3.1jupp5:
Documentation updates. Regenerate externally fetched files and autotools stuff. Fix help URI in jupprc.

Changes for joe-3.1jupp4:
Keyboard fixes and DEC VT320/VT420 support in jupprc. Update of externally fetched subsystems. gzsig'd distfile.

Changes for joe-3.1jupp3:
Overhaul of jupprc, especially improving Linux and MS-DOS keybindings. Several minor fixes. Conversion back to autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.

Changes for joe-3.1jupp2:
Fix make install in mkinstalldirs for users who wish to install jupp, but where the shell is not mksh but GNU bash.

General information regarding changes:
Please see our CVSweb for details.