Micro
Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.
What is Micro?
Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals. It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.
Features Easy to use Common keybindings (ctrl-s, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-z...) Extremely good mouse support Cross platform Syntax highlighting (in over 75 languages!) Colorscheme support True color support (set the MICRO_TRUECOLOR env variable to 1 to enable it) Search and replace Sane defaults Plugin system (plugins are written in Lua) Undo and redo Unicode support Copy and paste with the system clipboard Small and simple Easily configurable
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Supported Languages
- English
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Tags
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- Terminal Emulator
- terminal-editor
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Ugotsta added Micro as alternative(s) to Zed editor
kendofriendo reviewed Micro- kendofriendo liked Micro
light ,fast and easy to use looks good out of the box
Just works, pretty much like a GUI text editors out of box (mouse support is really good), but lightweight, configurable and extensible like terminal ones You can use it with keyboard+mouse, just keyboard or touch+virtual keyboard setups
EDIT: Clipboard issue on Linux seems to be caused by having xsel, xclip and wl-clipboard installed at the same time and micro picking not the one DE is using. If you use Wayland (default on GNOME and SWAY, also default on some distributions with KDE) - leave only wl-clipboard as it's the one that system will use. If you are on X11 - leave xclip, if it doesn't work - remove xclip and try reinstalling xsel Also check that micro doesn't have "clipboard": "internal" in settings file, because "clipboard": "external" is default but you could have changed something
Terrible editor.
Very nice (at least on Ubuntu 20.04), the only thing I'm disliking is that it seems I can only do copy-paste within Micro, i.e. when I try to copy-paste from/to other editor, apparently it deals with a different, separate clipboard.
Modern and efficient cool little editor that runs on almost anything