Re: Two-pane layout for file listing and selection

["Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@...>]

Hi Paul,

On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Paul Merrell <marbux@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <gary@vaughan.pe> wrote:
>> GNU Zile recently rebranded itself from "Zile is Lossy Emacs" to "Zile Implements Lua Editors", and there is an early test release available in LuaRocks (luarocks install zile), which will get you zmacs (the editor formerly known as zile).  Things are still in flux in git, but pull-requests are welcome:
>> 
>>  http://github.com/gvvaughan/zile
>> 
> 
> You said "rebranded" and that things are still in a state of flux. But
> the link you gave is for an editor toolkit, which is not how the Gnu
> Zile at the following location is described.
> <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/GNU_Zile>.

Note that the bottom of that page says: "This page was last modified on 3 March 2012, at 16:52.",
almost 2 years ago.

I didn't try to edit it, because I already maintain the official Zile webpages, and the
GNU savannah pages, and the github repo mirror.  Please feel free to ping the author of
the out of date text at libreplanet and warn them that it is out of date, or ask if they'd
prefer to delete it than maintain it.

> I need to understand a bit more for the Where Lua Is Used web page. Is
> the libreplanet web page going to go away?

Unknown, it's not something that was on my radar.

> Or is there still a Gnu
> Zile that is a ready-to-go plain text editor as opposed to a text
> editor toolkit? 1 product or 2?

At least 2. Zile the editor toolkit, plus an example editor built with it called Zmacs
(which is a superset of the old C Zile editor).  Plus, I've added my pet editor Zz --
though it has a lot of unmerged patches in limbo for the moment -- which is little
more than Zmacs with Lisp ripped out and replaced by Lua.

HTH,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

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