I have reverted to version 1.6 home-compiled as the v.2 build on Debian does not have either minibuffer help (f10, f9) or syntax highlighting.
This is intentional. Syntax highlighting was buggy and considered bloat. Minibuffer help was hard to maintain in its old form. Zile is not intended to have a low barrier to entry, it's intended to be for Emacs users.
I suggest the main package zile should be based on zile v1 with syntax highlighting and obvious help system. v2 should be released as a concurrent package. Once v2 implements obvious help system and syntax highlighting, v2 can replace v1.
There is no intention to implement these features. 1.6 moreover has security bugs which will not be fixed (at least, not by the Zile maintainers).
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.
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