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GNU Moe vs mg: catalog facts
GNU Moe	mg
Free Free software under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.	Free Free software with files under public domain, ISC and BSD licenses.
Linux, Command line	macOS, Linux, Command line
Global search and replace across buffers Includes a directory browser and file name completion	Small terminal editor with Emacs-compatible editing Portable across Unix-like systems
Console interface Designed for ASCII and ISO-8859 text encodings	Does not support UTF-8
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0-or-later	License: ISC, BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, BSD-4-Clause, Public Domain
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026

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