mg Alternatives
mg is described as 'This is a portable version of the Mg editor from OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer who did a bunch of overhaul work on the version of Mg found in the OpenBSD base system' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to mg for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Haiku apps. The best mg alternative is Vim, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mg are GNU nano, GNU Emacs, Micro and CudaText.
mg alternatives are mainly Text Editors but may also be Code Editors or IDEs. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of mg.Vim
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- IDE
194 Vim alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- OpenSolaris
- MorphOS
Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.
- - Vim is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to mg.
- - Vim is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to mg.
Vim Features
GNU nano
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
132 GNU nano alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.
GNU Emacs
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- IDE
160 GNU Emacs alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- F-Droid
- Haiku
- Homebrew
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:
- - GNU Emacs is the most popular Android alternative to mg.
GNU Emacs Features
Micro
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
29 Micro alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.
Micro Features
CudaText
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
181 CudaText alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.
CudaText Features
Tilde
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo119 Tilde alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- Linux
Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.
Traditional Ex - Vi editor
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo67 Traditional Ex - Vi editor alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- Linux
- BSD
The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more...
DiscontinuedThe last update is from 2013.
Vis
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo152 Vis alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...
Vy
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
169 Vy alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.
DiscontinuedLast update and release on Nov 2020.
Ox editor
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo25 Ox editor alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- Mac
- Linux
Ox is a code editor. It was written in Rust using ANSI escape sequences. It assists developers with programming by providing several tools to speed up and make programming easier and a refreshing alternative to heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and...
Ox editor Features
DiscontinuedProject discontinued. No updates in two years.Developer confirmed that project is no more alive due to technical issues: https://github.com/curlpipe/ox/issues/121
4coder
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Paid • Proprietary
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
168 4coder alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
4coder is a minimalist, cross platform, programmable, code editing environment, catering to the needs of low level programmers. It allows you to use one work flow across Windows, Linux, and Mac (with the exception of your debugger... for now.).
- - 4coder is the most popular commercial alternative to mg.
4coder Features
Zee
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
25 Zee alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Zee is a modern editor for the terminal, written in Rust. It is a highly experimental code. In the old tradition of text editor demos, here's what it currently looks like editing its own source code.
Zee Features