Alternatives to mg for all platforms with any license

Vim

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris
Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Syntax Highlighting ... Keyboard focused Open source software Plugins Batch Editing Built-in terminal emulation Command line Command line interface Configurable Dedication to home row For geek Hackable Support for Large File Lightweight MarkDown support Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Native application Plugin manager Regex substitution Spell checking Terminal-based Vim Buffers Vim folding Visual Mode Well documented Word completion Add a feature

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GNU nano

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku
Command line interface Automatic Indentation Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature

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GNU Emacs

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Scripting ... Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based Add a feature

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Micro

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.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Beginner friendly Sync with Simplenote Add a feature

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CudaText

CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus. It starts quite fast (0.5 sec with ~30 plugins on CPU Intel Core i3 3Hz). It is extensible by Python...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Command palette Customizable Lightweight Add a feature

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Traditional Ex - Vi editor

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...

Free Open Source Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

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Vis

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...

Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD
Console-based Modal editor Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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4coder

Minimalist, cross platform, programmable, code editing environment for low level programming.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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