ZILE(1)

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version 2.6.4 · 9 versions
, in epel 10, fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ NAME ✨

Zile — Zile Is Lossy Emacs 🦋

okay so bestie, this is the zile(1) page, manual section 1, and we're gonna get you comfy with it 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

zile [OPTION-OR-FILENAME]...

literally that's it. options or filenames, throw em in, go off 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Zile is a lightweight Emacs clone that provides a subset of Emacs's functionality suitable for basic editing. that's the whole vibe — Emacs energy, but smol 🧚

Run Zile, the lightweight Emacs clone.

✨ Initialization options ✨

  • --no-init-file, -q — do not load ~/.zile. skipping the glow-up routine, respect 🫶
  • --funcall, -f FUNC — call the Zile Lisp function FUNC with no arguments
  • --load, -l FILE — load Zile Lisp FILE using the load function
  • --help — display this help message and exit
  • --version — display version information and exit

🎀 Action options 🎀

  • FILE — visit FILE using find-file
  • +LINE FILE — visit FILE using find-file, then go to line LINE

Exit status is 0 if OK, 1 if it cannot start up, for example because of an invalid command-line argument, and 2 if it crashes or runs out of memory.

bestie when it returns 2 it's giving chaos 😭 that's a crash or an out-of-memory situation, not a you problem, but like… noted.

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • ~/.zile — user's Zile init file 💖
  • /usr/share/doc/zile/dotzile.sample — which contains some useful code for the init file.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Zile was written by Sandro Sigala, David A. Capello and Reuben Thomas. The Lisp interpreter is based on code by Scott Lawrence. icons, all of them 💜

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

Report bugs to bug-zile@gnu.org. don't be shy, they wanna know 🫶

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU Zile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of Zile under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

no cap, "ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY" is in all caps in the original and it means it fr fr — if it eats your file, that's on the universe, not on them 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the page bestie, we ate 🍓 this was GNU Zile 2.6.4, dated December 2025 — mwah, ily, go edit something iconic ✨👑💖

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