zile(1)

zile1

Zile is lossy emacs

Usage

zile [OPTION-OR-FILENAME] ...

Overview

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.

Releases

15 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 12 times.

  1. 2.0–2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13

--funcall since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --help since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --load since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --no-init-file since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --version since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -f since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -l since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

--batch until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -V until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -h until Debian 3.0 (Woody); -u until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -v until Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

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 [email protected].

From zile 2.6.2-2+b2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.