To see more screenshots of micro, showcasing all of the default colorschemes, see [here](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/screenshots.html).
+You can also check out the website for Micro at https://micro-editor.github.io.
+
# Features
* Easy to use and to install
* Keybindings can be rebound to your liking
* Sane defaults
* You shouldn't have to configure much out of the box (and it is extremely easy to configure)
+* Splits and tabs
* Extremely good mouse support
* This means mouse dragging to create a selection, double click to select by word, and triple click to select by line
* Cross platform (It should work on all the platforms Go runs on)
* Note that while Windows is supported, there are still some bugs that need to be worked out
* Plugin system (plugins are written in Lua)
+ * Micro has a built-in plugin manager to automatically install, remove, and update all your plugins
* Persistent undo
* Automatic linting and error notifications
-* Syntax highlighting (for over [75 languages](runtime/syntax)!)
+* Syntax highlighting (for over [90 languages](runtime/syntax)!)
* Colorscheme support
* By default, micro comes with 16, 256, and true color themes.
* True color support (set the `MICRO_TRUECOLOR` env variable to 1 to enable it)
+* Snippets
+ * The snippet plugin can be installed with `> plugin install snippets`
* Copy and paste with the system clipboard
* Small and simple
* Easily configurable
-* Common editor things such as undo/redo, line numbers, unicode support...
+* Macros
+* Common editor things such as undo/redo, line numbers, Unicode support, softwrap...
-Although not yet implemented, I hope to add more features such as autocompletion, and multiple cursors in the future.
+Although not yet implemented, I hope to add more features such as autocompletion ([#174](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/issues/174)), and multiple cursors ([#5](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/issues/5)) in the future.
# Installation
-To install micro, you can download a prebuilt binary, or you can build it from source.
+To install micro, you can download a [prebuilt binary](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases), or you can build it from source.
-Please note that micro uses the amazing [tcell library](https://github.com/gdamore/tcell), but this
-means that micro is restricted to the platforms tcell supports. As a result, micro does not support
-Plan9, NaCl, and Cygwin (although this may change in the future).
-
-If you want more information about ways to install micro, see this [wiki page](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/wiki/Installing-Micro)
+If you want more information about ways to install micro, see this [wiki page](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/wiki/Installing-Micro).
### Prebuilt binaries
All you need to install micro is one file, the binary itself. It's as simple as that!
-You can download the correct binary for your operating system from the [releases](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases).
+Download the binary from the [releases](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases) page.
On that page you'll see the nightly release, which contains binaries for micro which are built every night,
and you'll see all the stable releases with the corresponding binaries.
If you'd like to see more information after installing micro, run `micro -version`.
+### Package Managers
+
+You can install micro using Homebrew on Mac:
+
+```
+brew install micro
+```
+
+On Windows, you can install micro through Chocolatey:
+
+```
+choco install micro
+```
+
### Building from source
-If your operating system does not have binary, but does run Go, you can build from source.
+If your operating system does not have a binary release, but does run Go, you can build from source.
-Make sure that you have Go version 1.5 or greater (Go 1.4 will work if your version supports CGO).
+Make sure that you have Go version 1.5 or greater (Go 1.4 will work if your version supports CGO) and that your `GOPATH` env variable is set (I recommand setting it to `~/go` if you don't have one).
-```sh
-go get -u github.com/zyedidia/micro/...
```
+go get -d github.com/zyedidia/micro
+cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/zyedidia/micro
+make install
+```
+
+The binary will then be installed to `$GOPATH/bin` (or your `$GOBIN`).
+
+You can install directly with `go get` (`go get -u github.com/zyedidia/micro/cmd/micro`) but this isn't recommended because it doesn't build micro with version information which is useful for the plugin manager.
### Linux clipboard support
-On Linux, clipboard support requires 'xclip' or 'xsel' command to be installed.
+On Linux, clipboard support requires the 'xclip' or 'xsel' commands to be installed.
For Ubuntu:
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.
-### Windows colors
+### Colors and syntax highlighting
+
+If you open micro and it doesn't seem like syntax highlighting is working, this is probably because
+you are using a terminal which does not support 256 color. Try changing the colorscheme to `simple`
+by pressing CtrlE in micro and typing `set colorscheme simple`.
+
+If you are using the default Ubuntu terminal, to enable 256 make sure your `TERM` variable is set
+to `xterm-256color`.
Many of the Windows terminals don't support more than 16 colors, which means
that micro's default colorscheme won't look very good. You can either set
the colorscheme to `simple`, or download a better terminal emulator, like
-mintty or cmder.
+mintty.
+
+### Plan9, NaCl, Cygwin
+
+Please note that micro uses the amazing [tcell library](https://github.com/gdamore/tcell), but this
+means that micro is restricted to the platforms tcell supports. As a result, micro does not support
+Plan9, NaCl, and Cygwin (although this may change in the future).
# Usage
# Documentation and Help
-Micro has a built-in help system which you can access by pressing `CtrlE` and typing `help`. Additionally, you can
-view the help files online [here](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/tree/master/runtime/help).
+Micro has a built-in help system which you can access by pressing `Ctrl-E` and typing `help`. Additionally, you can
+view the help files here:
+
+* [main help](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/tree/master/runtime/help/help.md)
+* [keybindings](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/tree/master/runtime/help/keybindings.md)
+* [commands](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/tree/master/runtime/help/commands.md)
+* [colors](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/tree/master/runtime/help/colors.md)
+* [options](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/tree/master/runtime/help/options.md)
+* [plugins](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/tree/master/runtime/help/plugins.md)
I also recommend reading the [tutorial](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/tree/master/runtime/help/tutorial.md) for
-a brief introduction to the more powerful features micro offers.
+a brief introduction to the more powerful configuration features micro offers.
# Contributing
If you find any bugs, please report them! I am also happy to accept pull requests from anyone.
-You can use the Github issue tracker to report bugs, ask questions, or suggest new features.
+You can use the [GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/issues) to report bugs, ask questions, or suggest new features.
+
+For a more informal setting to discuss the editor, you can join the [Gitter chat](https://gitter.im/zyedidia/micro).
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