Jove is an emacs clone, but it's -just- a text editor. It is a good deal more lightweight than most vi implementations. List last updated 2019-07-11: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND ttk 5188 0.0 0.0 1632 800 pts/105 S+ 16:44 0:00 jay foo ttk 25064 0.0 0.0 4356 724 pts/43 S+ 18:04 0:00 emacsclient -a -c -nw foo ttk 1360 0.0 0.0 4432 628 pts/23 S+ 15:36 0:00 ee foo suppy 15306 0.0 0.0 4436 708 pts/1 S+ 23:47 0:00 busybox vi foo # all except vi disabled ttk 5190 0.0 0.0 4660 632 pts/111 S+ 16:44 0:00 pico foo urchlay 29821 0.3 0.0 5304 1764 pts/1 S+ 15:42 0:00 /opt/ex-vi/bin/vi foo urchlay 28515 0.0 0.0 6912 1708 pts/1 S+ 15:39 0:00 jove foo ttk 5192 0.0 0.0 9204 1160 pts/118 S+ 16:44 0:00 elvis foo ttk 32331 0.0 0.0 12108 1616 pts/304 S+ 14:20 0:00 vile foo chris 27242 0.1 0.0 12344 2612 8 S+ 12:10PM 0:00 vi foo # (original BSD3 vi from FreeBSD 9, aka "nvi") mrg 4264 0.0 0.0 15720 2628 pts/17 S+ 1:40PM 0:00 vi foo # NetBSD 8 ttk 5196 0.0 0.0 16760 4984 pts/119 S+ 16:44 0:00 nano foo ttk 26048 0.0 0.0 17180 1656 pts/43 S+ 12:22 0:00 mg foo ttk 17440 0.0 0.0 25396 4788 pts/62 S+ 15:40 0:00 qe foo # qemacs ttk 30898 0.0 0.0 40932 3020 pts/59 S+ 13:38 0:00 vim-tiny foo ttk 1417 0.1 0.0 44624 3880 pts/46 S+ 21:59 0:00 xedit foo ttk 12297 0.2 0.0 44976 5104 pts/53 S+ 12:45 0:00 vim foo ttk 2012 0.3 0.1 63428 11476 pts/295 S+ 14:28 0:00 emacs-24.2-no-x11 foo ttk 23606 0.0 0.0 110832 3180 pts/53 Sl+ 13:20 0:00 nvim foo ttk 5200 0.1 0.2 211124 17796 pts/122 S+ 16:44 0:00 emacs -nw foo ttk 19832 5.8 1.6 752060 131636 pts/302 Sl+ 11:29 0:04 palemoon http://coolwanglu.github.io/vim.js/emterpreter/vim.html Update 2017-04-05 - I'd inadvertantly been using "jay"'s stats for jove; got stock jove numbers from urchlay