mg Command Examples

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}}