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