Zile (editor)
Encyclopedia
Zile is a free software
Emacs
-like UNIX
text editor
. Written by Sandro Sigala and later maintained by Reuben Thomas, Zile's goal is to be similar to GNU Emacs but with a very small size. In the tradition of recursive
acronyms, Zile stands for Zile Is Lossy Emacs. Zile is distinguished by a very small RAM
Memory footprint
, of approximately 100kB, and it fits comfortably on a floppy disk
. It is 8-bit clean
, allowing it to be used on any sort of file.
Zile's keyboard shortcuts are designed to resemble those of Emacs
. It incorporates many standard Emacs
features, including:
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
Emacs
Emacs
Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
-like UNIX
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
text editor
Text editor
A text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code....
. Written by Sandro Sigala and later maintained by Reuben Thomas, Zile's goal is to be similar to GNU Emacs but with a very small size. In the tradition of recursive
Recursive
Recursive may refer to:*Recursion, the technique of functions calling themselves*Recursive function, a total computable function*Recursive language, a language which is decidable...
acronyms, Zile stands for Zile Is Lossy Emacs. Zile is distinguished by a very small RAM
Ram
-Animals:*Ram, an uncastrated male sheep*Ram cichlid, a species of freshwater fish endemic to Colombia and Venezuela-Military:*Battering ram*Ramming, a military tactic in which one vehicle runs into another...
Memory footprint
Memory footprint
Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running.This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections , heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold any additional data structures, such as symbol...
, of approximately 100kB, and it fits comfortably on a floppy disk
Floppy disk
A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles...
. It is 8-bit clean
8-bit clean
8-bit clean describes a computer system that correctly handles 8-bit character sets, such as the ISO 8859 series and the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode.- History :...
, allowing it to be used on any sort of file.
Zile's keyboard shortcuts are designed to resemble those of Emacs
Emacs
Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
. It incorporates many standard Emacs
Emacs
Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
features, including:
- Multi buffer editing with multi level undo
- Multi window
- Killing, yanking and registers
- Minibuffer completion
- Auto fill (word wrap)