Re: Lightweight, C-only implementation of Emacs

[Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

>
>> *shrug* The author told you not to use it.  What don't you understand 
>> about the statement?
>
> FWIW, I use it very happily.  It might be worthwhile trying to find out 
> why he doesn't recommend its use and what he recommends instead. Maybe 
> the issue is simply that he lost interest and we should be looking for 
> another maintainer.
>

The main (and serious) limitation of Zile is that it has no support for 
Unicode.  In fact it is in practice limited to ASCII characters.  There 
should apparently be a "displayable-characters" configuration variable to 
use 8-bit character sets, but it is nowhere documented how it should be 
set.

Gregory