Command-line tool

mg

brew/mg

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Small Emacs-like editor

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install mg

Linux

brew install mg

Open a file for editing

mg path/to/file

Open a file at a specified line number

mg +line_number path/to/file

Open files in a read-only mode

mg -R path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

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