bug#2452: Mention Zile in Emacs documentation

bug#2452: Mention Zile in Emacs documentation

[Miles Bader]

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

[Reuben Thomas]

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

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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 ;-)"

bug#2452: Mention Zile in Emacs documentation

[Reuben Thomas]

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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