What is Vile?
Vile is a lightweight, high-performance text editor designed primarily for programmers. It aims to provide the flexibility of the vi editor with a smaller memory footprint and faster performance.
Some key features of Vile include:
- Vim-style modal key bindings for efficient text editing
- Support for macros and scripts to automate repetitive tasks
- Syntax highlighting for many programming languages and file formats
- Powerful search and replace with regex support
- Customizable appearance and keymap
- Built-in multi-level undo/redo
- Extensibility through plugins
Whereas editors like Vim focus on extensibility and features, Vile's priorities are small size and high speed. It still includes most common text editing features but with a stripped down, lightweight codebase optimized for performance. For programmers seeking a fast, capable code editor with strong structural editing capabilities, Vile is an excellent vi-like option.