# Install cmigemo with Homebrew, apt, dnf, Nix Migemo is a tool that supports Japanese incremental search with Romaji. Version 20110227 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:cmigemo ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install cmigemo ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install cmigemo ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: cmigemo from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install cmigemo ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: cmigemo from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#cmigemo ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cm/cmigemo/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:cmigemo - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 20110227 - **Source summary:** Migemo is a tool that supports Japanese incremental search with Romaji - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MIT - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - cmigemo (cli) - cmigemo (alias) ## Build dependencies - nkf ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Caveats: See also https://github.com/emacs-jp/migemo to use cmigemo with Emacs. You will have to save as migemo.el and put it in your load-path. - Bottle: available on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 20110227 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage C/Migemo is a C implementation of Migemo, a Japanese incremental-search tool that lets users type romanized text and search Japanese text without first converting the query to kana or kanji. ### Project history The official Japanese README dates C/Migemo to 2001-08-15, identifies MURAOKA Taro (KoRoN) as author, and describes it as a C reimplementation of Ruby/Migemo. The KaoriYa project page explains that Ruby/Migemo generates regular expressions for searching Japanese from romanized input, and that C/Migemo was published as a C library so it could be embedded in Vim. ### Adoption history C/Migemo's adoption is concentrated in Japanese text-editing workflows, especially Vim and related incremental search integrations. The input package facts list it in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/dnf, and Nix, showing that it escaped a single editor bundle into Unix package repositories. ### How it is used The official documentation describes building the library, generating or obtaining the dictionary, and using the `cmigemo` program with a Migemo dictionary. Its practical use is as a library or command that converts romanized Japanese search terms into regular expressions suitable for incremental search. ### Why package nerds care C/Migemo is package-nerd interesting because it packages an editor-adjacent Japanese input/search workflow as a reusable C library and CLI. It also has dictionary-generation and encoding concerns, which are exactly the kind of locale-specific details that package maintainers have to make reproducible across Unix systems. ### Timeline - 2001-08-15: C/Migemo documented as starting date in the official README. - 2013-01: GitHub repository created. - 2022: GitHub repository shows recent source updates in the current metadata. - 2025: KaoriYa site still lists C/Migemo and points to the GitHub source repository. ### Related projects - C/Migemo is explicitly related to Ruby/Migemo, Vim, SKK dictionaries, and Japanese incremental search tooling. ### Sources - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** cmigemo - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - cmigemo - 1:1.2+gh0.20220623-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: cmigemo from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Japanese incremental search tool written in C - binary | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo/ - Debian apt - cmigemo-common - 1:1.2+gh0.20220623-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: cmigemo-common from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Japanese incremental search tool written in C - common files | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo/ - Debian apt - libmigemo-dev - 1:1.2+gh0.20220623-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libmigemo-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Japanese incremental search tool written in C - development binaries | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo/ - Debian apt - libmigemo1 - 1:1.2+gh0.20220623-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libmigemo1 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Japanese incremental search tool written in C - library | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo/ - Debian apt - vim-migemo - 1:1.2+gh0.20220623-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: vim-migemo from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | VIM plugin for C/Migemo | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo/ - Nix - cmigemo: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cm/cmigemo/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - cmigemo - 1:1.2+gh0.20220623-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: cmigemo from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Japanese incremental search tool written in C - binary | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo/ - Ubuntu apt - cmigemo-common - 1:1.2+gh0.20220623-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: cmigemo-common from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Japanese incremental search tool written in C - common files | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo/ - Ubuntu apt - libmigemo-dev - 1:1.2+gh0.20220623-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libmigemo-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Japanese incremental search tool written in C - development binaries | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo/ - Ubuntu apt - libmigemo1 - 1:1.2+gh0.20220623-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libmigemo1 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Japanese incremental search tool written in C - library | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo/ - Ubuntu apt - vim-migemo - 1:1.2+gh0.20220623-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: vim-migemo from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | VIM plugin for C/Migemo | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo/ - dnf - cmigemo - 1.3-0.22.date20110227.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: cmigemo from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | C interface of Ruby/Migemo Japanese incremental search tool | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo - dnf - cmigemo-devel - 1.3-0.22.date20110227.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: cmigemo-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Development files for cmigemo | http://www.kaoriya.net/software/cmigemo ## Related links - 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