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				mg
				==
				This is a portable version of the Mg editor from OpenBSD.

				Mg 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 vi editor. It is compatible with emacs because there
				shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi.

				This repository aggressively tracks upstream.

				Compiling
				---------
				`mg` has a simple configure script that generates a `POSIX` `Makefile`.
				```
				$ ./configure
				$ make
				$ sudo make install
				```

				Dependencies
				------------
				By default, you need the ncurses library.

				NetBSD users will use the in-base NetBSD curses library.

				If you do not have the ncurses library, you can call `configure` with the
				`--with-builtin-curses` flag to compile with a simplified version of the
				NetBSD curses library. In this setup, there are no dependencies other than
				the system's libc.

				Testing
				-------
				Tested on recent versions of Arch, Alpine, Cygwin, Debian, DragonFly BSD,
				FreeBSD, Mac OS X (10.4 or later), NetBSD, Slackware, and Ubuntu.

				Licensing
				---------
				Files originating from `mg` are Public Domain. Files needed for portability
				have their own individual license headers.
				All licenses are ISC or BSD.

				Commonly asked questions
				------------------------
				`mg` does not yet support UTF-8. If you would like to work on this, please
				reach out to the tech@ mailing list on OpenBSD.

				Get a tarball
				-------------
				See the Releases tab on GitHub.
				The latest version is mg-7.0.