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+[This is an edited version of the original mg README, updated slightly to
+reflect changes in the last 20 years.]
+
+
+Mg (mg) is a Public Domain EMACS style editor.  It is "broadly"
+compatible with GNU Emacs, the latest creation of Richard M.
+Stallman, Chief GNUisance and inventor of Emacs.  GNU Emacs (and other
+portions of GNU as they are released) are essentially free, (there are
+handling charges for obtaining it) and so is Mg.  You may never have
+to learn another editor.  (But probably will, at least long enough to
+port Mg...)  Mg was formerly named MicroGnuEmacs, the name change was
+done at the request of Richard Stallman.
+
+Mg is not associated with the GNU project, and most of it does not
+have the copyright restrictions present in GNU Emacs.  (However, some
+of the system dependent modules and the regular expression module do
+have copyright notices.  Look at the source code for exact
+copyright restrictions.)  The Mg authors individually may or may not
+agree with the opinions expressed by Richard Stallman in "The GNU
+Manifesto".
+
+This program is intended to be a small, fast, and portable editor for
+people who can't (or don't want to) run real Emacs for one reason
+or another.  It is compatible with GNU because there shouldn't be
+any reason to learn more than one Emacs flavor.
+
+
+Beyond the work of Dave Conroy, author of the original public domain
+v30, the current version contains the work of:
+
+	blarson@ecla.usc.edu		Bob Larson
+	mic@emx.utexas.edu		Mic Kaczmarczik
+	mwm@violet.berkeley.edu		Mike Meyer
+	sandra@cs.utah.edu		Sandra Loosemore
+	mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu		Michael Portuesi
+	RCKG01M@CALSTATE.BITNET		Stephen Walton
+	hakanson@mist.cs.orst.edu	Marion Hakanson
+
+People who have worked on previous versions of Mg:
+
+	rtech!daveb@sun.com		Dave Brower
+
+Currently maintained in the OpenBSD src tree, with contributions from
+many others.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Known limitations:
+
+Recursive bindings may cause help and key rebinding code to go into
+an infinite loop, aborting with a stack overflow.
+
+Overwrite mode does not work in macros.	 (Characters are inserted
+rather than overwriting.)
+
+Dired mode has some problems:  Rename does not update the buffer.
+Doing a dired again will update the buffer (whether it needs it or
+not) and will lose any marks for deletion.  .. and . are not
+recognized as special cases.
+
+On systems with 16 bit integers, the kill buffer cannot exceed 32767
+bytes.
+
+
+
+New implementation oddities:
+
+insert and define-key are new commands corresponding to the mocklisp
+functions in Gnu Emacs.	 (Mg does not have non-command functions.)
+(Mg's insert will only insert one string.)
+
+The display wrap code does not work at all like that of GNU emacs.
+
+