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Zile Is Lossy Emacs

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

zile [OPTION-OR-FILENAME]...

Description

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.

Files

~/.zile — user's Zile init file

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

Author

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

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to bug-zile@gnu.org.

See Also

emacs(1)

Info

July 2024 GNU Zile 2.6.2