mg

A small, fast, and portable text editor based on emacs. More information: https://github.com/hboetes/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 …

• Disable ~ backup files while editing:

mg -n path/to/file