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purkka | 7 months ago

> 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.

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herewulf|7 months ago

Well, that's basically a deal breaker in 2025.

But the real question is: Can it run evil mode?!

nine_k|7 months ago

No. It lacks elisp. It offers some familiar keyboard shortcuts to appease your muscle memory, multiple buffers, screen splits, but apparently not much more.

goosedragons|7 months ago

Still maintained. There was an update in May of this year.

nine_k|7 months ago

ASCII is still adequate for great many programming tasks, especially in highly confined environment where JOVE can make sense.