* bug#2452: Mention Zile in Emacs documentation
@ 2009-02-23 21:37 Reuben Thomas
2009-02-25 16:42 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Reuben Thomas @ 2009-02-23 21:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bug-emacs
Hi,
I'm the maintainer of GNU Zile. Zile Is Lossy Emacs. Zile is a lightweight,
portable Emacs clone. Its only purpose is to stand in for Emacs when for one
reason or another Emacs won't do: for example, it won't install on a given
platform, or takes too much memory or disk space, or starts up too slowly.
Ideally, Zile wouldn't exist. But while it does, it would be nice if it
could be mentioned in Emacs's documentation, as many Emacs users have found
it useful over the years (including myself, which is why I started to use
Zile) and many more may yet do so.
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* bug#2452: Mention Zile in Emacs documentation
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@ 2009-02-24 10:22 ` Miles Bader
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From: Miles Bader @ 2009-02-24 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-emacs-bug
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
> I'm the maintainer of GNU Zile. Zile Is Lossy Emacs. Zile is a
> lightweight, portable Emacs clone. Its only purpose is to stand in for
> Emacs when for one reason or another Emacs won't do: for example, it
> won't install on a given platform, or takes too much memory or disk
> space, or starts up too slowly.
Indeed, zile seems to be even smaller than "nano"...
(nano is the default debian "tiny editor"; though it features emacs
keybindings for some things, it isn't really very emacs-like...)
-Miles
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* bug#2452: Mention Zile in Emacs documentation
2009-02-23 21:37 Reuben Thomas
@ 2009-02-25 16:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-25 18:41 ` Reuben Thomas
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2009-02-25 16:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Reuben Thomas; +Cc: bug-emacs, 2452
> Ideally, Zile wouldn't exist. But while it does, it would be nice if it
> could be mentioned in Emacs's documentation, as many Emacs users have found
> it useful over the years (including myself, which is why I started to use
> Zile) and many more may yet do so.
Agreed,
Stefan "Who uses Zile more often than he'd like ;-)"
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* bug#2452: Mention Zile in Emacs documentation
2009-02-25 16:42 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2009-02-25 18:41 ` Reuben Thomas
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From: Reuben Thomas @ 2009-02-25 18:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: bug-emacs, 2452
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Ideally, Zile wouldn't exist. But while it does, it would be nice if it
>> could be mentioned in Emacs's documentation, as many Emacs users have found
>> it useful over the years (including myself, which is why I started to use
>> Zile) and many more may yet do so.
>
> Agreed,
Also, it may act as an incentive to Emacs hackers to see if they can remove
the reasons for Zile's existence! (Some are already gone, e.g. quick startup
in most circumstances is given by a combination of sudoedit, -Q and
emacsclient.)
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