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

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and fast speed. An expanded version of the original is included as part of OpenBSD, where it is maintained, and snapshots of the OpenBSD version are available in the native package management trees of many other systems, including MacPorts,

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

initial Makefile in FreeBSD
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External links

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

Browsable source code of mg
at BXR.SU OpenGrok {{DEFAULTSORT:Mg (Editor) Unix text editors Free text editors Emacs OpenBSD Public-domain software with source code

History

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