Vile

vile (Vi Like Emacs)

Extensible multi-platform programmer's editor that was forked from MicroEMACS and released for DOS in 1990 and since ported to a host of architectures, basically retains architecture, the multiple buffers and windows features from MicroEMACS but changes the keyboard shortcuts and command structure to that of vi.

Features

• Command completion, history
• Syntax colouring: C/C++, Java, Perl, HTML, shell scripts

Versions

• vile 7.0 (1997) - [1]
• vile 9.5 (2005-07-25) - [2]
• vile 9.6 (2007-12-27)
• vile 9.7 (2008-06-14)
• vile 9.8 (2010-08-08) - vil98os2.zip

License

• Open source, older version were based on MicroEMACS code and thus released as copyright software with a no commercial usage clause, current version released under the GNU GPL v2 License.

Links

• Vile homepage

Author

• Paul Fox (Original fork)
• Thomas E. Dickey (Current developer)