# Micro
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-> Micro is very much a work in progress
+> Micro is still a work in progress
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.
+of modern terminals. It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.
Here is a picture of micro editing its source code.
# Features
-* Easy to use
+* Easy to use and to install
+* No dependencies or external files are needed -- just the binary you can download further down the page
* Common keybindings (ctrl-s, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-z...)
+ * 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)
* Extremely good mouse support
-* Cross platform
-* Syntax highlighting (in over [75 languages](runtime/syntax)!)
+ * 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)
+* Plugin system (plugins are written in Lua)
+* Automatic linting and error notifications
+* Syntax highlighting (for over [75 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)
-* Search and replace
-* Sane defaults
-* Undo and redo
-* Unicode support
* Copy and paste with the system clipboard
* Small and simple
-* Configurable
-
-If you'd like to see what has been implemented, and what I plan on implementing soon-ish, see the [todo list](todolist.md)
+* Easily configurable
+* Common editor things such as undo/redo, line numbers, unicode support...
# Installation
-### Homebrew
+To install micro, you can download a prebuilt binary, or you can build it from source.
-If you are on Mac, you can install micro using Homebrew:
+You can also install micro with a few package managers (on OSX, Arch Linux, and CRUX).
+See this [wiki page](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/wiki/Installing-Micro) for details.
-```
-brew tap zyedidia/micro
-brew install --devel micro
-```
-
-Micro is devel-only for now because there is no released version.
+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).
### Prebuilt binaries
-| Version | Mac | Linux 64 | Linux 32 | Linux Arm | Windows 64 | Windows 32 |
-| ------- | --- |---|---|---|---|---|
-| 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)
-To run the micro binary just run `./bin/micro` (you may want to place the binary on your path for ease of use).
+All you need to install micro is one file, the binary itself. It's as simple as that!
-### Building from source
+You can download the correct binary for your operating system from the list in the [nightly build release](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/tag/nightly).
-Micro is made in Go so you must have Go installed on your system to build it.
+Micro has no released version, instead these binaries are compiled every night and you can find the
+commit they were compiled with by running `micro -version`.
-Make sure that you have Go version 1.4 or greater.
+If your operating system does not have binary, but does run Go, you can build from source.
-You can simply `go get` it.
+### Building from source
-```
-go get -u github.com/zyedidia/micro/cmd/micro
+Make sure that you have Go version 1.5 or greater (Go 1.4 will work for the systems like support CGO then).
+
+```sh
+go get -u github.com/zyedidia/micro/...
```
### Clipboard support
-On Linux, clipboard support requires 'xclip' or 'xsel' command to be installed. For Ubuntu:
+On Linux, clipboard support requires 'xclip' or 'xsel' command to be installed.
-```
-$ sudo apt-get install xclip
+For Ubuntu:
+
+```sh
+sudo apt-get install xclip
```
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.
Micro also supports creating buffers from `stdin`:
-```
-$ ifconfig | micro
+```sh
+ifconfig | micro
```
You can move the cursor around with the arrow keys and mouse.
-You can also use the mouse to manipulate the text. Simply clicking and dragging will select text. You can also double click
-to enable word selection, and triple click to enable line selection.
-
-You can run `$ micro -version` to get the version number. Since there is no release, this just gives you the
-commit hash. The version is unknown if you built with `go get`, instead use `make install` or `make` to get a binary
-with a version number defined.
+You can also use the mouse to manipulate the text. Simply clicking and dragging
+will select text. You can also double click to enable word selection, and triple
+click to enable line selection.
-#### Help text
+### Documentation and Help
-See the [help text](./runtime/help/help.md) for information about keybindings, editor commands, colorschemes and
-configuration options.
+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).
# Contributing
projects / micro.git / blobdiff