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		kramerger on Oct 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joining the Church of Emacs This is like a Scientologist criticizing Jehovahs Witness :) Okay, since this is HN and not Reddit let me make this post a bit more useful: has anyone tried "mg"? It is an openbsd (?) project that is similar to Emacs on a first glance but even lighter than barebone vim. It is what I use for remote editing instead of vi and nano. https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/mg.1

Koshkin on Oct 3, 2022 | [–]

How does mg compare with MicroEMACS (famously used by Linus Torvalds [1])?

[1] https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...

Rediscover on Oct 3, 2022 | | [–]

mg(1) user here, fwiw. I install it on VMs/containers. I find it quite nice, though I also use GNU Emacs, vi (often elvis), and Vim.

Nano drives me up the wall.

nequo on Oct 3, 2022 | [–]

Is it a very different experience from `emacs -nw -Q`?

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