GNU Zile
GNU Zile (Zile Is Lossy Emacs) is a lightweight Emacs clone. Every Emacs user should feel at home with Zile. Zile is aimed at small footprint systems (a typical binary is about 100Kb) and quick editing sessions (it starts up and shuts down instantly).
| Tags | Text Editors Emacs |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Unix |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 08 Apr 2009 12:19
Changes: This release fixes a bug in write-file which caused the undo state to be improperly updated, resulting in dirty states being marked clean. A crash bug in paragraph filling was fixed, and some other minor bugs. The --funcall option was reintroduced for backwards compatibility with Zile 2.2. The build system was made more portable. Some code cleanup was done.
- 06 Mar 2009 01:20
Changes: This release fixes yet another bug in filename completion, and a potential crash that the bug exposed. Some minor code cleanup was performed.
- 28 Feb 2009 22:15
Changes: This release fixes two more bugs in filename completion introduced in 2.3.1. Users of 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 should upgrade. Some minor code cleanup was also performed.
- 25 Feb 2009 07:04
Changes: This release fixes a bug in filename completion introduced in the previous release that had serious consequences. Some minor problems in the build system were also fixed. The installation instructions were improved. help2man is now needed to build Zile (and has been since 2.3.1).
- 23 Feb 2009 21:57
Changes: This release contains a rewrite of the test suite that drives Zile directly, and no longer uses DejaGnu. Two commands have been added to make it possible to write all the tests in Lisp, namely execute-kbd-macro and insert-char. The --script flag is now --load, which is what it really does. Various commands have been made to work non-interactively. Duplication has been reduced by generating much of the documentation from the code. The info manual, which merely duplicated information available elsewhere, has been removed. Other small fixes and improvements have been made.
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Recent commentsZile rocks!
I've been using zile for several years now. It's one of the first utilities I install on a new system. Thanks, Reuben!
Re: Why not use Emacs?
> If you want an editor that is as similar
> to Emacs as possible, why not just use
> Emacs?
Zile is one of the first packages I install on new systems. I'm a heavy emacs user, but Zile is really just a complement to Emacs. For example, when I want to do a quick edit of a configuration file, I start Zile from the command line and is done with it in no-time. It's basically a replacement for vi for me.
So to the author: Thanks a lot for zile!
// Simon
Re: Where's the 2.2.16 tarball?
> Sorry about that, the release never got
> made, because my SF password expired,
> but I didn't notice the error message.
> You should now find it there.
Yay -- thanks!
Re: Where's the 2.2.16 tarball?
Sorry about that, the release never got made, because my SF password expired, but I didn't notice the error message. You should now find it there.
Where's the 2.2.16 tarball?
I followed the link to download 2.2.16, and it's not there; I also searched through the Zile sourceforge site and found no indication of 2.2.16 (or anything explaining what happened to it). Was a decision made to pull the release?
I'm looking forward to my next Zile fix! :-)