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.Dd $Mdocdate: July 10 2024 $
.Dt MG 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mg
.Nd emacs-like text editor
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm mg
.Op Fl nR
.Op Fl b Ar file
.Op Fl f Ar mode
.Op Fl u Ar file
.Op + Ns Ar number
.Op Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is intended to be a small, fast, and portable editor for
people who can't (or don't want to) run emacs for one
reason or another, or are not familiar with the
.Xr vi 1
editor.
It is compatible with emacs because there shouldn't
be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or
.Xr vi 1 .
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It + Ns Ar number
Go to the line specified by number (do not insert
a space between the
.Sq +
sign and the number).
If a negative number is specified, the line number counts
backwards from the end of the file i.e. +-1 will be the last
line of the file, +-2 will be second last, and so on.
.It Fl b Ar file
Turn on batch mode and execute the
.Nm
commands found in the specified
.Ar file
and then terminate.
.It Fl f Ar mode
Run the
.Ar mode
command for all buffers created from
arguments on the command line, including the
scratch buffer and all files.
.It Fl n
Turn off backup file generation.
.It Fl R
Files specified on the command line will be opened read-only.
.It Fl u Ar file
Use
.Ar file
as the startup file, instead of the default
.Pa ~/.mg .
.El
.Sh WINDOWS AND BUFFERS
When a file is loaded into
.Nm ,
it is stored in a
.Em buffer .
This buffer may be displayed on the screen in more than one window.
At present, windows may only be split horizontally, so each window is
delineated by a modeline at the bottom.
If changes are made to a buffer, it will be reflected in all open windows.
.Pp
If a file is changed outside
.Nm
and its buffer is about to be changed,
.Nm
prompts if the change should go ahead (y), not go ahead (n) or if the buffer
should be reverted (r) to the latest file on disk.
.Pp
If a buffer name begins and ends with an asterisk, the buffer is considered
throwaway; i.e. the user will not be prompted to save changes when
the buffer is killed.
.Sh POINT AND MARK
The current cursor location in
.Nm
is called the
.Em point
(or
.Em dot ) .
It is possible to define a window-specific region of text by setting a second
location, called the
.Em mark .
The
.Em region
is the text between point and mark inclusive.
Deleting the character at the mark position leaves
the mark at the point of deletion.
.Pp
Note: The point and mark are window-specific in
.Nm ,
not buffer-specific, as in other emacs flavours.
.Sh BACKUP FILES
Backup files have a
.Sq ~
character appended to the file name and
are created in the current working directory by default.
Whether to create backup files or not can be toggled with the
.Ic make-backup-files
command.
The backup file location can either be in the current
working directory, or all backups can be moved to a
.Pa ~/.mg.d
directory where files retain their path name to retain uniqueness.
Use the
.Ic backup-to-home-directory
command to alternate between these two locations.
Further, if any application creates backup files in
.Pa /tmp ,
these can be left with the
.Ic leave-tmpdir-backups
command.
.Sh TAGS
.Nm
supports tag files created by
.Xr ctags 1 ,
allowing the user to quickly locate various object definitions.
Note though that emacs uses etags, not ctags.
.Sh CSCOPE
.Nm
supports navigating source code using cscope.
However,
.Nm
requires cscope and cscope-indexer executables to be present in
.Ev PATH
for it to work.
.Sh DEFAULT KEY BINDINGS
Normal editing commands are very similar to GNU Emacs.
In the following examples, C-x means Control-x, and M-x means Meta-x,
where the Meta key may be either a special key on the keyboard
or the ALT key; otherwise ESC followed by the key X works as well.
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.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxx -offset indent -compact
.It C-SPC
set-mark-command
.It C-a
beginning-of-line
.It C-b
backward-char
.It C-c s c
cscope-find-functions-calling-this-function
.It C-c s d
cscope-find-global-definition
.It C-c s e
cscope-find-egrep-pattern
.It C-c s f
cscope-find-this-file
.It C-c s i
cscope-find-files-including-file
.It C-c s n
cscope-next-symbol
.It C-c s p
cscope-prev-symbol
.It C-c s s
cscope-find-this-symbol
.It C-c s t
cscope-find-this-text-string
.It C-d
delete-char
.It C-e
end-of-line
.It C-f
forward-char
.It C-g
keyboard-quit
.It C-h C-h
help-help
.It C-h a
apropos
.It C-h b
describe-bindings
.It C-h c
describe-key-briefly
.It C-j
newline-and-indent
.It C-k
kill-line
.It C-l
recenter
.It RET
newline
.It C-n
next-line
.It C-o
open-line
.It C-p
previous-line
.It C-q
quoted-insert
.It C-r
isearch-backward
.It C-s
isearch-forward
.It C-t
transpose-chars
.It C-u
universal-argument
.It C-v
scroll-up
.It C-w
kill-region
.It C-x C-b
list-buffers
.It C-x C-c
save-buffers-kill-emacs
.It C-x C-f
find-file
.It C-x C-j
dired-jump
.It C-x C-g
keyboard-quit
.It C-x C-l
downcase-region
.It C-x C-o
delete-blank-lines
.It C-x C-q
toggle-read-only
.It C-x C-r
find-file-read-only
.It C-x C-s
save-buffer
.It C-x C-u
upcase-region
.It C-x C-v
find-alternate-file
.It C-x C-w
write-file
.It C-x C-x
exchange-point-and-mark
.It C-x (
start-kbd-macro
.It C-x \&)
end-kbd-macro
.It C-x 0
delete-window
.It C-x 1
delete-other-windows
.It C-x 2
split-window-vertically
.It C-x 4 C-f
find-file-other-window
.It C-x 4 C-g
keyboard-quit
.It C-x 4 b
switch-to-buffer-other-window
.It C-x 4 f
find-file-other-window
.It C-x =
what-cursor-position
.It C-x ^
enlarge-window
.It C-x `
next-error
.It C-x b
switch-to-buffer
.It C-x d
dired
.It C-x e
call-last-kbd-macro
.It C-x f
set-fill-column
.It C-x g
goto-line
.It C-x h
mark-whole-buffer
.It C-x i
insert-file
.It C-x k
kill-buffer
.It C-x n
other-window
.It C-x o
other-window
.It C-x p
previous-window
.It C-x s
save-some-buffers
.It C-x u
undo
.It C-y
yank
.It C-z
suspend-emacs
.It M-C-v
scroll-other-window
.It M-SPC
just-one-space
.It M-!
shell-command
.It M-.
find-tag
.It M-*
pop-tag-mark
.It M-%
query-replace
.It M-<
beginning-of-buffer
.It M->
end-of-buffer
.It M-\e
delete-horizontal-space
.It M-^
join-line
.It M-b
backward-word
.It M-c
capitalize-word
.It M-d
kill-word
.It M-f
forward-word
.It M-h
mark-paragraph
.It M-l
downcase-word
.It M-m
back-to-indentation
.It M-q
fill-paragraph
.It M-r
search-backward
.It M-s
search-forward
.It M-t
transpose-words
.It M-u
upcase-word
.It M-v
scroll-down
.It M-w
copy-region-as-kill
.It M-x
execute-extended-command
.It M-z
zap-to-char
.It M-{
backward-paragraph
.It M-|
shell-command-on-region
.It M-}
forward-paragraph
.It M-~
not-modified
.It M-DEL
backward-kill-word
.It C-_
undo
.It )
blink-and-insert
.It DEL
delete-backward-char
.El
.Pp
For a complete description of
.Nm
commands, see
.Sx MG COMMANDS .
To see the active keybindings at any time, type
.Dq M-x describe-bindings .
.Sh MG COMMANDS
Commands are invoked by
.Dq M-x ,
or by binding to a key.
Many commands take an optional numerical parameter,
.Va n .
This parameter is set either by
M-<n> (where
.Va n
is the numerical argument) before the command, or by
one or more invocations of the universal argument, usually bound to C-u.
When invoked in this manner, the value of the numeric parameter to
be passed is displayed in the minibuffer before the M-x.
One common use of the parameter is in mode toggles (e.g.\&
make-backup-files).
If no parameter is supplied, the mode is toggled to its
alternate state.
If a positive parameter is supplied, the mode is forced to on.
Otherwise, it is forced to off.
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.It Ic apropos
Help Apropos.
Prompt the user for a string, open the *help* buffer,
and list all
.Nm
commands that contain that string.
.It Ic audible-bell
Toggle the audible system bell.
.It Ic auto-execute
Register an auto-execute hook; that is, specify a filename pattern
(conforming to the shell's filename globbing rules) and an associated
function to execute when a file matching the specified pattern
is read into a buffer.
.It Ic auto-fill-mode
Toggle auto-fill mode (sometimes called mail-mode) in the current buffer,
where text inserted past the fill column is automatically wrapped
to a new line.
Can be set globally with
.Ic set-default-mode .
.It Ic auto-indent-mode
Toggle indent mode in the current buffer,
where indentation is preserved after a newline.
Can be set globally with
.Ic set-default-mode .
.It Ic back-to-indentation
Move the dot to the first non-whitespace character on the current line.
.It Ic backup-to-home-directory
Save backup copies to a
.Pa ~/.mg.d
directory instead of working directory.
Requires
.Ic make-backup-files
to be on.
.It Ic backward-char
Move cursor backwards one character.
.It Ic backward-kill-word
Kill text backwards by
.Va n
words.
.It Ic backward-paragraph
Move cursor backwards
.Va n
paragraphs.
Paragraphs are delimited by <NL><NL> or <NL><TAB> or <NL><SPACE>.
.It Ic backward-word
Move cursor backwards by the specified number of words.
.It Ic beginning-of-buffer
Move cursor to the top of the buffer.
If set, keep mark's position, otherwise set at current position.
A numeric argument
.Va n
will move n/10th of the way from the top.
.It Ic beginning-of-line
Move cursor to the beginning of the line.
.It Ic blink-and-insert
Self-insert a character, then search backwards and blink its
matching delimiter.
For delimiters other than
parenthesis, brackets, and braces, the character itself
is used as its own match.
Can be used in the startup file with the
.Ic global-set-key
command.
.It Ic bsmap-mode
Toggle bsmap mode, where DEL and C-h are swapped.
.It Ic c-mode
Toggle a KNF-compliant mode for editing C program files.
.It Ic call-last-kbd-macro
Invoke the keyboard macro.
.It Ic capitalize-word
Capitalize
.Va n
words; i.e. convert the first character of the word to
upper case, and subsequent letters to lower case.
.It Ic cd
Change the global working directory.
See also
.Ic global-wd-mode .
.It Ic column-number-mode
Toggle whether the column number is displayed in the modeline.
.It Ic copy-region-as-kill
Copy all of the characters in the region to the kill buffer,
clearing the mark afterwards.
This is a bit like a
.Ic kill-region
followed by a
.Ic yank .
.It Ic count-matches
Count the number of lines matching the supplied regular expression.
.It Ic count-non-matches
Count the number of lines not matching the supplied regular expression.
.It Ic cscope-find-this-symbol
List the matches for the given symbol.
.It Ic cscope-find-global-definition
List global definitions for the given literal.
.It Ic cscope-find-called-functions
List functions called from the given function.
.It Ic cscope-find-functions-calling-this-function
List functions calling the given function.
.It Ic cscope-find-this-text-string
List locations matching the given text string.
.It Ic cscope-find-egrep-pattern
List locations matching the given extended regular expression pattern.
.It Ic cscope-find-this-file
List filenames matching the given filename.
.It Ic cscope-find-files-including-file
List files that #include the given filename.
.It Ic cscope-next-symbol
Navigate to the next match.
.It Ic cscope-prev-symbol
Navigate to the previous match.
.It Ic cscope-next-file
Navigate to the next file.
.It Ic cscope-prev-file
Navigate to the previous file.
.It Ic cscope-create-list-of-files-to-index
Create cscope's List and Index in the given directory.
.It Ic define-key
Prompts the user for a named keymap (mode),
a key, and an
.Nm
command, then creates a keybinding in the appropriate
map.
.It Ic delete-backward-char
Delete backwards
.Va n
characters.
Like
.Ic delete-char ,
this actually does a kill if presented
with an argument.
.It Ic delete-blank-lines
Delete blank lines around dot.
If dot is sitting on a blank line, this command
deletes all the blank lines above and below the current line.
Otherwise, it deletes all of the blank lines after the current line.
.It Ic delete-char
Delete
.Va n
characters forward.
If any argument is present, it kills rather than deletes,
saving the result in the kill buffer.
.It Ic delete-horizontal-space
Delete any whitespace around the dot.
.It Ic delete-leading-space
Delete leading whitespace on the current line.
.It Ic delete-trailing-space
Delete trailing whitespace on the current line.
.It Ic delete-matching-lines
Delete all lines after dot that contain a string matching
the supplied regular expression.
.It Ic delete-non-matching-lines
Delete all lines after dot that don't contain a string matching
the supplied regular expression.
.It Ic delete-other-windows
Make the current window the only window visible on the screen.
.It Ic delete-window
Delete current window.
.It Ic describe-bindings
List all global and local keybindings, putting the result in
the *help* buffer.
.It Ic describe-key-briefly
Read a key from the keyboard, and look it up in the keymap.
Display the name of the function currently bound to the key.
.It Ic diff-buffer-with-file
View the differences between buffer and its associated file.
.It Ic digit-argument
Process a numerical argument for keyboard-invoked functions.
.It Ic dired-jump
Open a dired buffer containing the current buffer's directory location.
.It Ic downcase-region
Set all characters in the region to lower case.
.It Ic downcase-word
Set characters to lower case, starting at the dot, and ending
.Va n
words away.
.It Ic emacs-version
Return an
.Nm
version string.
.It Ic end-kbd-macro
Stop defining a keyboard macro.
.It Ic end-of-buffer
Move cursor to the end of the buffer.
If set, keep mark's position, otherwise set at current position.
A numeric argument
.Va n
will move n/10th of the way from the end.
.It Ic end-of-line
Move cursor to the end of the line.
.It Ic enlarge-window
Enlarge the current window by shrinking either the window above
or below it.
.It Ic eval-current-buffer
Evaluate the current buffer as a series of
.Nm
commands.
Useful for testing
.Nm
startup files.
.It Ic eval-expression
Get one line from the user, and run it.
Useful for testing expressions in
.Nm
startup files.
.It Ic exchange-point-and-mark
Swap the values of "dot" and "mark" in the current window.
Return an error if no mark is set.
.It Ic execute-extended-command
Invoke an extended command; i.e. M-x.
Call the message line routine to read in the command name and apply
autocompletion to it.
When it comes back, look the name up in the symbol table and run the
command if it is found, passing arguments as necessary.
Print an error if there is anything wrong.
.It Ic fill-paragraph
Justify a paragraph, wrapping text at the current fill column.
.It Ic find-file
Select a file for editing.
First check if the file can be found
in another buffer; if it is there, just switch to that buffer.
If the file cannot be found, create a new buffer, read in the
file from disk, and switch to the new buffer.
.It Ic find-file-read-only
Same as
.Ic find-file ,
except the new buffer is set to read-only.
.It Ic find-alternate-file
Replace the current file with an alternate one.
Semantics for finding the replacement file are the same as
.Ic find-file ,
except the current buffer is killed before the switch.
If the kill fails, or is aborted, revert to the original file.
.It Ic find-file-other-window
Opens the specified file in a second buffer.
Splits the current window if necessary.
.It Ic find-tag
Jump to definition of tag at dot.
.It Ic forward-char
Move cursor forwards (or backwards, if
.Va n
is negative)
.Va n
characters.
Returns an error if the end of buffer is reached.
.It Ic forward-paragraph
Move forward
.Va n
paragraphs.
Paragraphs are delimited by <NL><NL> or <NL><TAB> or <NL><SPACE>.
.It Ic forward-word
Move the cursor forward by the specified number of words.
.It Ic global-set-key
Bind a key in the global (fundamental) key map.
.It Ic global-unset-key
Unbind a key from the global (fundamental) key map; i.e. set it to 'rescan'.
.It Ic global-wd-mode
Toggle global working-directory mode.
When enabled,
.Nm
defaults to opening files (and executing commands like
.Ic compile
and
.Ic grep )
relative to the global working directory.
When disabled, a working directory is set for each buffer.
.It Ic goto-line
Go to a specific line.
If an argument is present, then
it is the line number, else prompt for a line number to use.
.It Ic help-help
Prompts for one of (a)propos, (b)indings, des(c)ribe key briefly.
.It Ic insert
Insert a string, mainly for use from macros.
.It Ic insert-buffer
Insert the contents of another buffer at dot.
.It Ic insert-file
Insert a file into the current buffer at dot.
.It Ic insert-with-wrap
Insert the bound character with word wrap.
Check to see if we're past the fill column, and if so,
justify this line.
.It Ic isearch-backward
Use incremental searching, initially in the reverse direction.
isearch ignores any explicit arguments.
If invoked during macro definition or evaluation, the non-incremental
.Ic search-backward
is invoked instead.
.It Ic isearch-forward
Use incremental searching, initially in the forward direction.
isearch ignores any explicit arguments.
If invoked during macro definition or evaluation, the non-incremental
.Ic search-forward
is invoked instead.
.It Ic join-line
Join the current line to the previous.
If called with an argument,
join the next line to the current one.
.It Ic just-one-space
Delete any whitespace around dot, then insert a space.
.It Ic keyboard-quit
Abort the current action.
.It Ic kill-buffer
Dispose of a buffer, by name.
If the buffer name does not start and end with an asterisk,
prompt the user if the buffer
has been changed.
.It Ic kill-line
Kill line.
If called without an argument, it kills from dot to the end
of the line, unless it is at the end of the line, when it kills the
newline.
If called with an argument of 0, it kills from the start of the
line to dot.
If called with a positive argument, it kills from dot
forward over that number of newlines.
If called with a negative argument
it kills any text before dot on the current line, then it kills back
abs(n) lines.
.It Ic kill-paragraph
Delete
.Va n
paragraphs starting with the current one.
.It Ic kill-region
Kill the currently defined region.
.It Ic kill-word
Delete forward
.Va n
words.
.It Ic leave-tmpdir-backups
Modifies the behaviour of
.Ic backup-to-home-directory .
Backup files that would normally reside in
.Pa /tmp
are left there and not moved to the
.Pa ~/.mg.d
directory.
.It Ic line-number-mode
Toggle whether the line number is displayed in the modeline.
.It Ic list-buffers
Display the list of available buffers.
The first column in the output indicates which buffer is active with a '>'
character.
The second column indicates which buffers are modified.
The third column indicates which buffers are read-only.
The remaining columns are self-explanatory.
.It Ic load
Prompt the user for a filename, and then execute commands
from that file.
.It Ic local-set-key
Bind a key mapping in the local (topmost) mode.
.It Ic local-unset-key
Unbind a key mapping in the local (topmost) mode.
.It Ic make-backup-files
Toggle generation of backup files.
Enabled by default.
.It Ic make-directory
Prompt the user for a path or directory name which is then created.
.It Ic mark-paragraph
Mark
.Va n
paragraphs.
.It Ic mark-whole-buffer
Marks whole buffer as a region by putting dot at the beginning and mark
at the end of buffer.
.It Ic meta-key-mode
When disabled, the meta key can be used to insert extended-ascii (8-bit)
characters.
When enabled, the meta key acts as usual.
.It Ic negative-argument
Process a negative argument for keyboard-invoked functions.
.It Ic newline
Insert a newline into the current buffer.
.It Ic newline-and-indent
Insert a newline, then enough tabs and spaces to duplicate the indentation
of the previous line, respecting
.Ic no-tab-mode
and the buffer tab width.
.It Ic next-line
Move forward
.Va n
lines.
.It Ic no-tab-mode
Toggle notab mode.
In this mode, spaces are inserted rather than tabs.
Can be set globally with
.Ic set-default-mode .
.It Ic not-modified
Turn off the modified flag in the current buffer.
.It Ic open-line
Open up some blank space.
Essentially, insert
.Va n
newlines, then back up over them.
.It Ic other-window
The command to make the next (down the screen) window the current
window.
There are no real errors, although the command does nothing if
there is only 1 window on the screen.
.It Ic overwrite-mode
Toggle overwrite mode in the current buffer,
where typing overwrites existing characters rather than inserting them.
Can be set globally with
.Ic set-default-mode .
.It Ic prefix-region
Inserts a prefix string before each line of a region.
The prefix string is settable by using
.Ic set-prefix-string
or by invoking this command with a prefix argument.
.It Ic previous-line
Move backwards
.Va n
lines.
.It Ic previous-window
This command makes the previous (up the screen) window the
current window.
There are no errors, although the command does not do
a lot if there is only 1 window.
.It Ic pop-tag-mark
Return to position where find-tag was previously invoked.
.It Ic push-shell
Suspend
.Nm
and switch to alternate screen, if available.
.It Ic pwd
Display current (global) working directory in the status area.
.It Ic query-replace
Query Replace.
Search and replace strings selectively, prompting after each match.
.It Ic replace-regexp
Replace regular expression globally without individual prompting.
.It Ic replace-string
Replace string globally without individual prompting.
.It Ic query-replace-regexp
Replace strings selectively.
Does a search and replace operation using regular
expressions for both patterns.
.It Ic quoted-insert
Insert the next character verbatim into the current buffer; i.e. ignore
any function bound to that key.
.It Ic re-search-again
Perform a regular expression search again, using the same search
string and direction as the last search command.
.It Ic re-search-backward
Search backwards using a regular expression.
Get a search string from the user, and search, starting at dot
and proceeding toward the front of the buffer.
If found, dot is left
pointing at the first character of the pattern [the last character that
was matched].
.It Ic re-search-forward
Search forward using a regular expression.
Get a search string from the user and search for it starting at dot.
If found, move dot to just after the matched characters.
display does all
the hard stuff.
If not found, it just prints a message.
.It Ic recenter
Reposition dot in the current window.
By default, the dot is centered.
If given a positive argument (n), the display is repositioned to line
n.
If
.Va n
is negative, it is that line from the bottom.
.It Ic redraw-display
Refresh the display.
Recomputes all window sizes in case something has changed.
.It Ic revert-buffer
Revert the current buffer to the latest file on disk.
.It Ic save-buffer
Save the contents of the current buffer if it has been changed,
optionally creating a backup copy.
.It Ic save-buffers-kill-emacs
Offer to save modified buffers and quit
.Nm .
.It Ic save-some-buffers
Look through the list of buffers, offering to save any buffer that
has been changed.
Buffers that are not associated with files (such
as *scratch*, *grep*, *compile*) are ignored.
.It Ic scroll-down
Scroll backwards
.Va n
pages.
A two-line overlap between pages is
assumed.
If given a repeat argument, scrolls back lines, not pages.
.It Ic scroll-one-line-down
Scroll the display down
.Va n
lines without changing the cursor position.
.It Ic scroll-one-line-up
Scroll the display
.Va n
lines up without moving the cursor position.
.It Ic scroll-other-window
Scroll the next window in the window list window forward
.Va n
pages.
.It Ic scroll-up
Scroll forward one page.
A two-line overlap between pages is
assumed.
If given a repeat argument, scrolls back lines, not pages.
.It Ic search-again
Search again, using the same search string and direction as the last
search command.
.It Ic search-backward
Reverse search.
Get a search string from the user, and search, starting
at dot and proceeding toward the front of the buffer.
If found, dot is
left pointing at the first character of the pattern (the last character
that was matched).
.It Ic search-forward
Search forward.
Get a search string from the user, and search for it
starting at dot.
If found, dot gets moved to just after the matched
characters, if not found, print a message.
.It Ic self-insert-command
Insert a character.
.It Ic sentence-end-double-space
Toggle double or single spaces for end of sentences.
Double is the default.
Currently only affects fill-paragraph.
.It Ic set-case-fold-search
Set case-fold searching, causing case not to matter
in regular expression searches.
This is the default.
.It Ic set-case-replace
Preserve the case of the replaced string.
This is the default.
.It Ic set-default-mode
Append the supplied mode to the list of default modes
used by subsequent buffer creation.
Built in modes include: fill, indent, notab and overwrite.
.It Ic set-fill-column
Prompt the user for a fill column.
Used by
.Ic auto-fill-mode .
.It Ic set-mark-command
Sets the mark in the current window to the current dot location.
.It Ic set-prefix-string
Sets the prefix string to be used by the
.Ic prefix-region
command.
.It Ic set-tab-width
Set the tab width for the current buffer, or the default for new buffers
if called with a prefix argument or from the startup file.
.It Ic shell-command
Execute external command from mini-buffer.
With a universal argument it inserts the command output into the current
buffer.
.It Ic shell-command-on-region
Provide the text in region to the shell command as input.
With a universal argument it replaces the region with the command
output.
.It Ic shrink-window
Shrink current window by one line.
The window immediately below is expanded to pick up the slack.
If only one window is present, this command has no effect.
.It Ic space-to-tabstop
Insert enough spaces to reach the next tab-stop position.
By default, tab-stops occur every 8 characters.
.It Ic split-window-vertically
Split the current window.
A window smaller than 3 lines cannot be split.
.It Ic start-kbd-macro
Start defining a keyboard macro.
Macro definition is ended by invoking end-kbd-macro.
.It Ic suspend-emacs
Suspend
.Nm
and switch back to alternate screen, if in use.
.It Ic switch-to-buffer
Prompt and switch to a new buffer in the current window.
.It Ic switch-to-buffer-other-window
Switch to buffer in another window.
.It Ic toggle-read-only
Toggle the read-only flag on the current buffer.
.It Ic toggle-read-only-all
Toggle the read-only flag on all non-ephemeral buffers.
A simple toggle that switches a global read-only flag either on
or off.
.It Ic transpose-chars
Transpose the two characters in front of and under dot,
then move forward one character.
Treat newline characters the same as any other.
.It Ic transpose-paragraphs
Transpose adjacent paragraphs.
If multiple iterations are requested, the current paragraph will
be moved
.Va n
paragraphs forward.
.It Ic transpose-words
Transpose adjacent words.
.It Ic undo
Undo the most recent action.
If invoked again without an intervening command,
move the undo pointer to the previous action and undo it.
.It Ic undo-boundary
Add an undo boundary.
This is not usually done interactively.
.It Ic undo-boundary-toggle
Toggle whether undo boundaries are generated.
Undo boundaries are often disabled before operations that should
be considered atomically undoable.
.It Ic undo-enable
Toggle whether undo information is kept.
.It Ic undo-list
Show the undo records for the current buffer in a new buffer.
.It Ic universal-argument
Repeat the next command 4 times.
Usually bound to C-u.
This command may be stacked; e.g.\&
C-u C-u C-f moves the cursor forward 16 characters.
.It Ic upcase-region
Upper case region.
Change all of the lower case characters in the region to
upper case.
.It Ic upcase-word
Move the cursor forward by the specified number of words.
As it moves, convert any characters to upper case.
.It Ic visible-bell
Toggle the visible bell.
If this toggle is on, the modeline will flash.
.It Ic visit-tags-table
Load tags file to be used for subsequent
.Ic find-tag .
.It Ic what-cursor-position
Display a bunch of useful information about the current location of
dot.
The character under the cursor (in octal), the current line, row,
and column, and approximate position of the cursor in the file (as a
percentage) is displayed.
The column position assumes an infinite
position display; it does not truncate just because the screen does.
.It Ic write-file
Ask for a file name and write the contents of the current buffer to
that file.
Update the remembered file name and clear the buffer
changed flag.
.It Ic yank
Yank text from
.Ic kill-buffer .
Unlike emacs, the
.Nm
kill buffer consists only
of the most recent kill.
It is not a ring.
.It Ic zap-to-char
Ask for a character and delete text from the current cursor position
until the next instance of that character, including it.
.It Ic zap-up-to-char
Like
.Ic zap-to-char
but doesn't delete the target character.
.El
.Sh MG DIRED KEY BINDINGS
Specific key bindings are available in dired mode.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -offset indent -compact
.It DEL
dired-unmark-backward
.It RET, e, f and C-m
dired-find-file
.It SPC, n
dired-next-line
.It !
dired-shell-command
.It +
dired-create-directory
.It ^
dired-up-directory
.It a
dired-find-alternate-file
.It c
dired-do-copy
.It d and C-d
dired-flag-file-deletion
.It g
dired-revert
.It j
dired-goto-file
.It o
dired-find-file-other-window
.It p
dired-previous-line
.It q
quit-window
.It r
dired-do-rename
.It u
dired-unmark
.It x
dired-do-flagged-delete
.It C-v
dired-scroll-down
.It M-v
dired-scroll-up
.El
.Sh MG DIRED COMMANDS
The following are a list of the commands specific to dired mode:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ic dired-create-directory
Create a directory.
.It Ic dired-do-copy
Copy the file listed on the current line of the dired buffer.
.It Ic dired-do-flagged-delete
Delete the files that have been flagged for deletion.
.It Ic dired-do-rename
Rename the file listed on the current line of the dired buffer.
.It Ic dired-find-alternate-file
Replace the current dired buffer with an alternate one as specified
by the position of the cursor in the dired buffer.
.It Ic dired-find-file
Open the file on the current line of the dired buffer.
If the cursor is on a directory, it will be opened in dired mode.
.It Ic dired-flag-file-deletion
Flag the file listed on the current line for deletion.
This is indicated in the buffer by putting a D at the left margin.
No files are actually deleted until the function
.Ic dired-do-flagged-delete
is executed.
.It Ic dired-find-file-other-window
Open the file on the current line of the dired buffer in a
different window.
.It Ic dired-goto-file
Move the cursor to a file name in the dired buffer.
.It Ic dired-next-line
Move the cursor to the next line.
.It Ic dired-other-window
This function works just like dired, except that it puts the
dired buffer in another window.
.It Ic dired-previous-line
Move the cursor to the previous line.
.It Ic dired-revert
Refresh the dired buffer while retaining any flags.
.It Ic dired-scroll-down
Scroll down the dired buffer.
.It Ic dired-scroll-up
Scroll up the dired buffer.
.It Ic dired-shell-command
Pipe the file under the current cursor position through a shell command.
.It Ic dired-unmark
Remove the deletion flag for the file on the current line.
.It Ic dired-unmark-backward
Remove the deletion flag from the file listed on the previous line
of the dired buffer, then move up to that line.
.It Ic dired-up-directory
Open a dired buffer in the parent directory.
.It Ic quit-window
Close the current dired buffer.
.El
.Sh CONFIGURATION FILES
There are two configuration files,
.Pa .mg
and
.Pa .mg-TERM .
Here,
.Ev TERM
represents the name of the terminal type; e.g. if the terminal type
is set to
.Dq vt100 ,
.Nm
will use
.Pa .mg-vt100
as a startup file.
The terminal type startup file is used first.
.Pp
The startup file format is a list of commands, one per line, as used for
interactive evaluation.
Strings that are normally entered by the user at any subsequent prompts
may be specified after the command name; e.g.:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
global-set-key ")" self-insert-command
global-set-key "\e^x\e^f" find-file
global-set-key "\ee[Z" backward-char
set-default-mode fill
set-fill-column 72
auto-execute *.c c-mode
.Ed
.Pp
Comments can be added to the startup files by placing
.Sq ;\&
or
.Sq #
as the first character of a line.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/doc/mg/tutorial -compact
.It Pa ~/.mg
normal startup file
.It Pa ~/.mg-TERM
terminal-specific startup file
.It Pa ~/.mg.d
alternative backup file location
.It Pa /usr/share/doc/mg/tutorial
concise tutorial
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ctags 1 ,
.Xr vi 1
.Sh CAVEATS
Since it is written completely in C, there is currently no
language in which extensions can be written;
however, keys can be rebound and certain parameters can be changed
in startup files.
.Pp
In order to use 8-bit characters (such as German umlauts), the Meta key
needs to be disabled via the
.Ic meta-key-mode
command.
.Pp
Multi-byte character sets, such as UTF-8, are not supported.