Zile is a free software Emacs-like UNIX text editor. Written by Sandro Sigala and later maintained by Reuben Thomas, Zile's goal is to be similar to GNU Emacs but with a very small size. In the tradition of recursive acronyms, Zile stands for Zile Is Lossy Emacs. Zile is distinguished by a very small RAM Memory footprint, of approximately 100kB, and it fits comfortably on a floppy disk. It is 8-bit clean, allowing it to be used on any sort of file (though it currently lacks Unicode support).
Zile's keyboard shortcuts are designed to resemble those of Emacs. It incorporates many standard Emacs features, including:
- Multi buffer editing with multi level undo
- Multi window
- Killing, yanking and registers
- Minibuffer completion
- Auto fill (word wrap)