Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
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Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
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Re: Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
#2Very neat, I really wanted something like this
Re: Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
#3Standard text editor in OpenBSD. As an emacs user for 20+ years, mg feels good and not lacking like the other tiny emacs clones.
Re: Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
#4But does it have Tetris?
Re: Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
#5It is no wonder that Richard Stallman asked them to change their name away from MicroGnuEmacs, especially when mg is not under GPL.
Re: Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
#6But does it have Tetris?
Does it run FTP to read/write remote files?
Re: Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
#7I use mg all the time. It only takes half a second to launch and lets me use the emacs keyboard muscle memory I built up over 20 years. Happily I'm able to use a modern editor for most real editing.
Re: Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
#8Related: Fabrice Bellard[0]'s QEmacs. http://bellard.org/qemacs/ - a 160KB executable provides a mostly complete Emacs experience (sans scripting .. sort of like Mg), but does include syntax coloring, unicode, and watching video inside the editor. A 60KB stripped down version has a feature set comparable to Mg as far as I can tell.
[0] of FFMPEG, QEMU, BPG, TCC, JSLINUX and more fame.
Re: Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
#9As an Emacs guy, I really like mg(1). The one missing feature is Unicode support.
Re: Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
#10I use emacs for most of my daily development, but always rely on nano or vi in the terminal due to emacs startup time. I'm going to give mg a shot this week!