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zile — A lightweight clone of the Emacs text editor. More information: <https://manned.org/zile>.

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Problem

How to use the zile command: A lightweight clone of the Emacs text editor. More information: <https://manned.org/zile>.

Solution

zile — A lightweight clone of the Emacs text editor. More information: <https://manned.org/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>

Code Snippets

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}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/zile

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