Hello Reuben, thank you for the fast reply.
Reuben Thomas wrote:
For users wanting an easy-to-use editor with obvious up-front help, nano and others provide a much better option than Zile with its bizarre key bindings.
I expect users who use zile as I do are familiar with nano, pico, mc etc. There are many reasons why I prefer Zile v1 as my primary text editor
I concur Zile v2 has a definite niche to fill, particularly given the increasing bloat of emacs. However, it is a very different niche to v1.
Zile V2 is moving towards Emacs power users on light weight systems, which isn't what I need.
Zile V1 caters for those who don't know much about emacs but would like to, and for fast, light-medium weight code editing tasks with the buggy but useful syntax highlighting and the in-line search function, which is what I need.
Perhaps the lisp interpreter planned for v2 may be used to emulate v1 behaviour as a modular architecture, but then again, the v1 audience will have moved on by then.
I will take a look at other text editors.
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