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nannaOP

Found this intro to Jove helpful:

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`

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

You 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)

Pre-installed on macOS since 2019 (when it replaced Emacs), too.

nannaOP

Hadn't hear of mg. Thanks!

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