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Found this intro to Jove helpful: https://opensource.com/article/17/1/jove-lightweight-alternative-vim https://opensource.com/article/17/1/jove-lightweight-alt
by nanna 1y ago
Found this intro to Jove helpful:
https://opensource.com/article/17/1/jove-lightweight-alternative-vim https://opensource.com/article/17/1/jove-lightweight-alterna...
Think I might actually use it when I need to make a quick edit to something in the terminal, instead of `nano` or `emacs -nw`
- musicale 1y ago> How small is it? The Jove executable is roughly 150K Which counts as small now that nano has ballooned to ~400KB? For comparison, Turbo Pascal packed an entire x86 IDE into ~40KB.[1] [1] https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
- messe 1y agoYou should look into mg. It's included in OpenBSD's base system, and plenty of other systems have it present in their package manager. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(text_editor) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(text_editor)