[HN Gopher] Jove (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)
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       Jove (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)
        
       Author : nanna
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2025-07-17 09:35 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | ww520 wrote:
       | Jove was my first editor on Unix. Emacs took up too much resource
       | and was too slow back then.
        
         | jeanlucas wrote:
         | Back when?
        
         | mhandley wrote:
         | I also started using Jove back when 30 of us shared one PDP
         | 11/44 running BSD Unix, and it was antisocial to use something
         | as heavyweight as Emacs. 40 years later, I'm still using UNIX
         | and Emacs.
        
         | herewulf wrote:
         | Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping! :D
        
       | nanna wrote:
       | Found this intro to Jove helpful:
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       | https://opensource.com/article/17/1/jove-lightweight-alterna...
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       | 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 wrote:
         | > 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]
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         | [1] https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
        
       | ridruejo wrote:
       | Jove and Jed were (are still in some cases!) my go-to options
       | when Emacs was too heavyweight
        
       | purkka wrote:
       | > Unlike GNU Emacs, JOVE does not support UTF-8.
       | 
       | If this is still true in the latest versions, I find it pretty
       | amazing that something like this has been maintained all the way
       | until 2023.
        
         | goosedragons wrote:
         | Still maintained. There was an update in May of this year.
        
         | herewulf wrote:
         | Well, that's basically a deal breaker in 2025.
         | 
         | But the real question is: Can it run evil mode?!
        
       | sombragris wrote:
       | It comes standard on a default install of Slackware. Even in
       | current, as of now, jove is installed in version 4.17.5.5. Of
       | course, standard emacs is also provided.
       | 
       | Now, if I have to use an emacs-like editor I'd go with Jed.
       | Somehow it seems much less daunting and much more friendly than
       | the real thing.
        
       | fmajid wrote:
       | Not to be confused with JOVIAL, Jules' Own Version of the
       | International Algorithmic Language, which ran the US air traffic
       | control systems for the longest time.
        
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