GNU Zile

Introduction to GNU Zile

GNU Zile, which is a lightweight Emacs clone. Zile is short for Zile Is Lossy Emacs. Zile has been written to be as similar as possible to Emacs; every Emacs user should feel at home.

Zile has all of Emacs's basic editing features: it is 8-bit clean (though it currently lacks Unicode support), and the number of editing buffers and windows is only limited by available memory and screen space respectively. Registers, minibuffer completion and auto fill are available. Function and variable names are identical with Emacs's (except those containing the word "emacs", which instead contain the word "zile"!).

However, all of this is packed into a program which typically compiles to about 130Kb.

Downloading Zile

Zile can be found on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/zile/ [via http] and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/zile/ [via FTP]. It can also be found on one of our FTP mirrors; please use a mirror if possible.

Documentation

Zile documentation can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/manual/. You may also find more information about Zile by running info zile, man zile, or looking at /usr/doc/zile/ or /usr/local/doc/zile/ on your system.

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Mailing Lists/Newsgroups

Zile has two mailing lists: <help-zile@gnu.org> and <bug-zile@gnu.org>.

The main discussion list is <help-zile@gnu.org>, and is used to discuss all aspects of Zile, including development and porting.

There is a separate list used for reporting bugs, <bug-zile@gnu.org>. For details on submitting a bug report, please see the section Report a Bug below.

Announcements about Zile and most other GNU software are made on <info-gnu@gnu.org>.

To subscribe to these or any GNU mailing lists, please send an empty mail with a Subject: header line of just "subscribe" to the relevant -request list. For example, to subscribe yourself to GNU announcement list, you would send mail to <info-gnu-request@gnu.org> with no body and a Subject: header line of just "subscribe". Or you can use the mailing list web interface.

Request an Enhancement

If you would like any new feature to be included in future versions of Zile, please send a request to <help-zile@gnu.org>.

Please remember that development of Zile is a volunteer effort, and you can also contribute to its development (see below). For information about contributing to the GNU Project, please read How to help GNU.

Development

Zile is developed on Savannah, where you can find bug and feature request trackers, and the git repository.

Report a Bug

If you think you have found a bug in Zile, then please send as complete a report as possible to <bug-zile@gnu.org>.

Maintainer

Zile is currently being maintained by <rrt@sc3d.org>.

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