mg, originally called MicroGnuEmacs (and later changed at the request of

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), is a public-domain

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that runs on

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. It is based on MicroEMACS, but intended to more closely resemble

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while still maintaining a small memory footprint and fast speed. An expanded version of the original is included as part of

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, where it is maintained, and snapshots of the OpenBSD version are available in the native

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trees of many other systems, including

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and

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History

* Nov 16, 1986: First release to mod.sources, according to the README * Mar 3, 1987: First release (mg1a) via comp.sources.unix * May 26, 1988: Second release: (mg2a) via comp.sources.misc * Jan 26, 1992:

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port released by Charles Hedrick. This version later makes its way onto tsx-11, Infomagic, and various other Linux repositories. * Feb 25, 2000: First import into the

tree, where it is currently maintained * May 20, 2001: OpenBSD's mg is imported into

initial Makefile in FreeBSD
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References

External links

*OpenBSD'
mg man page
*Han Boetes
portable version of OpenBSD's mg

Browsable source code of mg
at BXR.SU

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mg (Editor) Unix text editors Free text editors Emacs OpenBSD Public-domain software with source code

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