---
name: "ng"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ng-common"
version: "1.5~beta1-13"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ng"
---

# ng(1)

small lightweight Emacs-like editor

## NAME

ng - small lightweight Emacs-like editor

## SYNOPSIS

**ng** \[*options*\] *files*...

## DESCRIPTION

**ng** is Nihongo Mg, MicroGnuEmacs. This name indicates it is Japanized version of Mg. It can handle ASCII, ISO-2022-JP, Shift-JIS, and EUC-JP as well as EUC-KR and EUC-CN(GB and CNS), while Latin are also supported. Be aware these CJK support and Latin support are exclusive.

**ng** is just a wrapper script. It calls either ng-latin, ng-cjk or ng-cjk-canna according to locale-related environmental variable, LC\_ALL and LANG. If you want to override this act, You can use an environmental variable NG. Set this to what you prefer among the ng families.

## OPTIONS

- **-v**

  Show version of ng.

- **-c**

  Show version and built-in features of ng.

- **-f** *command*

  Execute the specified command after ng starts.

- **-I** *file*

  Use the specified file as an init file instead of ~/.ng.

- **+ number**

  Go to the line specified by  *number* (do not insert a space between the "+" sign and the number).

## FILES

/usr/bin/ng-latin - Latin-supported binary.

/usr/bin/ng-cjk - CJK-supported binary.

/usr/bin/ng-cjk-canna - CJK & canna-supported binary.

## VARIABLES

**NG** - should be set to either ng-latin, ng-cjk or ng-cjk-canna. This value is prior to others.

**LC\_ALL** - prior to LANG.

**LANG** - These locale-related variables control which ng is to be called.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Yasuhiro Take \<take@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).