Editing Vile (text editor) (section)

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{{Infobox software
| name                   = vile
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| author                 = Paul Fox
| developer              = Thomas Dickey
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| operating_system       = [[Cross-platform]]
| genre                  = [[Text editor]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-only]]
| website                = {{Official URL}}
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'''vile''' is a [[text editor]] that combines aspects of the [[Emacs]] and [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] editors. These editors are traditionally located on opposing sides of the [[editor wars]], as users of either tend to have strong sentiments against the editor they do not use. vile attempts to reconcile these positions.

''vile'' is an acronym which stands for "VI Like Emacs".
vile 9.6 is featured in Chapter 18 of the O'Reilly book "Learning the vi and Vim Editors".<ref name="RobbinsHannah2008">{{cite book|author1=Arnold Robbins|author2=Elbert Hannah|author3=Linda Lamb|title=Learning the vi and Vim Editors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eb8J3BONVxAC&pg=PA343|date=15 July 2008|publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc."|isbn=978-0-596-52983-3|pages=343–374}}</ref>
An older version (vile 8.0) was presented in Chapter 12 of the O'Reilly book "Learning the vi Editor".<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi6/ |author1=Linda Lamb| author2=Arnold Robbins |title=Learning the vi Editor |edition=6 |publisher=O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. |date=November 1998 |isbn=1-56592-426-6 |pages=229–258}}</ref>

The program is also known as '''xvile'''<ref>[http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1258 Dan Wilder, "At Last, An X-Based vi", Linux Journal, February 1997]</ref> for the [[X Window System]], and as '''winvile''' for [[Microsoft Windows]].

vile was created and originally maintained by Paul Fox. In 1996, maintenance was taken over by Thomas Dickey,<ref>[http://linuxgazette.net/issue12/updates.html Larry Ayers, "Updates to My Past Reviews", Linux Gazette, November 1996] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804054034/http://linuxgazette.net/issue12/updates.html |date=August 4, 2007 }}</ref> who had provided many major contributions to the codebase over the preceding years.