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
- 20 Mar 2012 21:40
Release Notes: Fixes a potential crash and a cosmetic bug in global-set-key when used interactively. Adds many more tests.
- 19 Feb 2012 02:41
Release Notes: This release fixes a crash in non-incremental searching the first time it is used interactively.
- 09 Feb 2012 07:14
Release Notes: An egregious bug resulting in a crash whenever a non-existent file was edited was fixed along with other potential crash bugs in the low-level text-handling routine, estr_replace.
- 04 Feb 2012 01:05
Release Notes: find-file and find-file-read-only now work non-interactively. Minor build system fixes have been applied. Some code cleanup has been done. A slight speed improvement has been made for general editing operations.
- 21 Dec 2011 23:00
Release Notes: This release fixes a crash on certain terminals. It fixes a recently-introduced display bug in isearch.
Recent comments
For anyone who thinks the 2.3.24 release notes bear a suspicious resemblance to the 2.3.23 notes, I'm sorry, I used the wrong ones. The real notes are even less exciting: "a few tiny bug fixes, some code cleanup".
Shouldn't that now be "Zile is Lua Emacs"?
Thanks a lot for Zile!
It is simply the best small Emacs clone I've used.
Thank you very much.
Zile 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
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