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"GNU Zile is a lightweight Emacs clone. Zile is short for Zile Is Lossy Emacs: Zile is a strict subset of Emacs. Zile has all of Emacs's basic editing features..." — See also: Zile 2.3.19 released —
Zile is a lightweight Emacs clone. Zile is short for Zile Is Lossy Emacs. Zile has been written to be as similar as possible to Emacs; every Emacs user should feel at home. This release fixes a potential buffer overrun, and a long-standing bug in the handling of the key string "C-_", and cleans up the code a little more.
"...This release uses gnulib for regex, getopt, vasprintf, and various other features, rather than previous ad hoc solutions, to improve portability..."
"This page shows a example of writing a emacs lisp function that update the page navigation tag of several files. If you don't know elisp, see: Emacs Lisp Basics..."
"The greatest single thing about Emacs is it's extensibility. If you think Emacs is missing something, or don't like how something works, you can change it. But that's true of any free software.