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8 > Micro is very much a work in progress
10 Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities
13 Here is a picture of micro editing its source code.
15 ![Screenshot](./screenshot.png)
20 * Common keybindings (ctrl-s, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-z...)
21 * Extremely good mouse support
23 * Syntax highlighting (in over [75 languages](runtime/syntax)!)
25 * True color support (set the `MICRO_TRUECOLOR` env variable to 1 to enable it)
30 * Copy and paste with the system clipboard
34 If you'd like to see what has been implemented, and what I plan on implementing soon-ish, see the [todo list](todolist.md)
40 If you are on Mac, you can install micro using Homebrew:
43 brew tap zyedidia/micro
44 brew install --devel micro
47 Micro is devel-only for now because there is no released version.
50 | Version | Mac | Linux 64 | Linux 32 | Linux Arm | Windows 64 | Windows 32 |
51 | ------- | --- |---|---|---|---|---|
52 | Nightly Binaries | [Mac OS X](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/binaries/micro-osx.tar.gz) | [Linux 64](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/binaries/micro-linux64.tar.gz) | [Linux 32](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/binaries/micro-linux32.tar.gz) | [Linux Arm](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/binaries/micro-linux-arm.tar.gz) | [Windows 64](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/binaries/micro-win64.zip) | [Windows 32](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/binaries/micro-win32.zip)
54 To run the micro binary just run `./bin/micro` (you may want to place the binary on your path for ease of use).
56 ### Building from source
58 Micro is made in Go so you must have Go installed on your system to build it.
60 Make sure that you have Go version 1.4 or greater.
62 You can simply `go get` it.
65 go get -u github.com/zyedidia/micro/cmd/micro
70 On Linux, clipboard support requires 'xclip' or 'xsel' command to be installed. For Ubuntu:
73 $ sudo apt-get install xclip
76 If you don't have xclip or xsel, micro will use an internal clipboard for copy and paste, but it won't work with external applications.
80 Once you have built the editor, simply start it by running `micro path/to/file.txt` or simply `micro` to open an empty buffer.
82 Micro also supports creating buffers from `stdin`:
88 You can move the cursor around with the arrow keys and mouse.
90 You can also use the mouse to manipulate the text. Simply clicking and dragging will select text. You can also double click
91 to enable word selection, and triple click to enable line selection.
93 You can run `$ micro -version` to get the version number. Since there is no release, this just gives you the
94 commit hash. The version is unknown if you built with `go get`, instead use `make install` or `make` to get a binary
95 with a version number defined.
99 See the [help text](./runtime/help/help.md) for information about keybindings, editor commands, colorschemes and
100 configuration options.
104 Configuration directory:
106 Micro uses the `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/micro` as the configuration directory. As per the XDG spec,
107 if `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is not set, `~/.config/micro` is used as the config directory.
109 At this point, there isn't much you can configure.
110 Micro has a few options which you can set:
117 To set an option run Ctrl-e to execute a command, and type `set option value`, so to set the tabsize to 8 it would be `set tabsize 8`. The default is 4.
119 The syntax option can simply be on or off, so for example to turn syntax highlighting off, run `set syntax off`. The default is on.
121 The tabsToSpaces option is on or off. It specifies whether to use spaces instead of tabs or not. The default is off.
123 The colorscheme can be selected from all the files in the `~/.config/micro/colorschemes/` directory. Micro comes by default with three colorschemes:
125 * default: this is the default colorscheme.
126 * solarized: this is the solarized colorscheme (used in the screenshot). You should have the solarized color palette in your terminal to use it.
127 * solarized-tc: this is the solarized colorscheme for true color, just make sure your terminal supports true color before using it and that the `MICRO_TRUECOLOR` environment variable is set to 1 before starting micro.
129 These are embedded in the Go binary, but to see their source code, look [here](./runtime/colorschemes)
131 Any option you set in the editor will be saved to the file `~/.config/micro/settings.json` so, in effect, your configuration file will be created
132 for you. If you'd like to take your configuration with you to another machine, simply copy the `settings.json` to the other machine.
136 If you find any bugs, please report them! I am also happy to accept pull requests from anyone.