zile

A lightweight clone of the Emacs text editor. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/zile.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install zile
Ubuntu
apt-get install zile
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S zile
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install zile
Fedora
dnf install zile
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install zile
OS X
brew install zile
Raspbian
apt-get install zile

A lightweight clone of the Emacs text editor. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/>.

  • Start a buffer for temporary notes, which won't be saved:
    zile
  • Open a file:
    zile path/to/file
  • Save a file:
    <Ctrl> + X, <Ctrl> + S
  • Quit:
    <Ctrl> + X, <Ctrl> + C
  • Open a file at a specified line number:
    zile +line_number path/to/file
  • Undo changes:
    <Ctrl> + X, U

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