GNU Zile

Zile-on-Guile is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL.

Copyright (c) 1997-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (c) 2012 Michael L. Gran

Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.

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Contents

1. [INTRODUCTION][]
   • [Source Layout][]
   • [Web Pages][]
   • [Mailing Lists][]
2. [OBTAINING THE LATEST SOURCES][]
   • [Official Release][]
   • [Development Sources][]
3. [REPORTING BUGS][]

INTRODUCTION

Guile-on-Zile is a lightweight EMACS clone. It is a fork of the official GNU Zile editor, with Guile support added.

Guile-on-Zile is in modern C and uses ncurses, guile and libgc. Some portability is provided by using gnulib.

Source Layout

• See file AUTHORS for the names of maintainers past and present.
• See file COPYING for copying conditions.
• See file FAQ for a selection of a Frequently Answered Questions.
• See file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation instructions.
• See file NEWS for a list of major changes in each Zile release.
• See file THANKS for a list of important contributors.

The rest of the files in the top-level directory are part of the Autotools() build system used to compile and install Zile.

• Directory build-aux contains helper scripts used to build Zile.
• Directory doc contains files used to create Zile's documentation.
• Directory gl contains Zile specific patches to standard gnulib().
• Directory lib contains gnulib() source modules used by Zile.
• Directory m4 contains a mixture of gnulib() supplied and Zile specific macros for rebuilding the `configure' script.
• Directory src contains the source code used to build Zile.
• Directory tests contains a small suite of tests used by make check to sanity check a newly built src/zile binary.

Web Pages

Zile-on-Guile doesn't have a home page as such, but, it is on github

https://github.com/spk121/zile

GNU Zile's home page is at:

http://www.gnu.org/s/zile/

GNU Zile Development is co-ordinated from Ziles's project page at GNU Savannah:

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/zile/

An archive of past releases is also archived at:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/zile/

But please use a mirror for faster downloads and to reduce stress on the main gnu machine. The following link will automatically redirect to a nearest mirror:

http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/zile/

Or you can manually select a mirror from the list at:

http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Mailing Lists

There isn't really a mailing list, but, you can contact the author at spk121@yahoo.com.

See [REPORTING BUGS][] for the bug reporting mailing list address.

OBTAINING THE LATEST SOURCES

If you are just building Zile-on-Guile from an [Official Release][], you should not normally need to run ./bootstrap or autoreconf; just go ahead and start with ./configure.

If you are trying to build it from the [Development Sources][], ./configure will not work until the ./bootstrap script has completed successfully.

Official Release

Any releases are probably somewhere around

https://github.com/spk121/zile/downloads

Development Sources

Zile development sources are maintained on Github:

[https://github.com/spk121/zile][gitbrowser]

REPORTING BUGS

If this distribution doesn't work for you, I'm not surprised. This is a proof of concept hack, and probably won't be maintained. Even so, if you want to try to report a bug, e-mail me at spk121@yahoo.com