zile - Man Page

• Start a buffer for temporary notes, which won't be saved: zile
• Open a file: zile path/to/file
• Save a file: <Ctrl> + X, <Ctrl> + S
• Quit: <Ctrl> + X, <Ctrl> + C
• Open a file at a specified line number: zile +line_number path/to/file
• Undo changes: <Ctrl> + X, U

tldr.sh

zile [OPTION-OR-FILENAME]...

Zile is a lightweight Emacs clone that provides a subset of Emacs's functionality suitable for basic editing.

Run Zile, the lightweight Emacs clone.

Initialization options:

--no-init-file,  -q

do not load ~/.zile

--funcall,  -f FUNC

call Zile Lisp function FUNC with no arguments

--load,  -l FILE

load Zile Lisp FILE using the load function

--help

display this help message and exit

--version

display version information and exit

Action options:

FILE

visit FILE using find-file

+LINE FILE

visit FILE using find-file, then go to line LINE

Exit status is 0 if OK, 1 if it cannot start up, for example because of an invalid command-line argument, and 2 if it crashes or runs out of memory.

~/.zile — user's Zile init file

/usr/share/doc/zile/dotzile.sample — which contains some useful code for the init file.

Zile was written by Sandro Sigala, David A. Capello and Reuben Thomas. The Lisp interpreter is based on code by Scott Lawrence.

Report bugs to bug-zile@gnu.org.

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU Zile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of Zile under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

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