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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.
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.
+# Table of Contents
+- [Features](#features)
+- [Installation](#installation)
+ - [Prebuilt binaries](#prebuilt-binaries)
+ - [Package Managers](#package-managers)
+ - [Building from source](#building-from-source)
+ - [MacOS terminal](#macos-terminal)
+ - [Linux clipboard support](#linux-clipboard-support)
+ - [Colors and syntax highlighting](#colors-and-syntax-highlighting)
+ - [Plan9, Cygwin, Mingw](#plan9-cygwin-mingw)
+- [Usage](#usage)
+- [Documentation and Help](#documentation-and-help)
+- [Contributing](#contributing)
+
+- - -
+
# Features
* Easy to use and to install
* No dependencies or external files are needed -- just the binary you can download further down the page
+* Multiple cursors
* 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)
* Splits and tabs
+* Nano-like menu to help you remember the keybindings
* 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
+ * Note that while Windows is supported Mingw/Cygwin is not (see below)
* 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 [90 languages](runtime/syntax)!)
+* Syntax highlighting (for over [120 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`
+* True color support (set the `MICRO_TRUECOLOR` environment variable to 1 to enable it)
* Copy and paste with the system clipboard
* Small and simple
* Easily configurable
* 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 ([#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](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases), or you can build it from source.
If you'd like to see more information after installing micro, run `micro -version`.
-### Package Managers
+### Installation script
+
+There is a great script which can install micro for you by downloading the latest prebuilt binary. You can find it at https://getmic.ro (the github repo for it is [here](https://github.com/benweissmann/getmic.ro)).
+
+Then you can easily install micro:
+
+ $ curl https://getmic.ro | bash
+
+The script will install the micro binary to the current directory.
+
+See the [Github page](https://github.com/benweissmann/getmic.ro) for more information.
+
+### Package managers
You can install micro using Homebrew on Mac:
brew install micro
```
-On Windows, you can install micro through Chocolatey:
+On Debian Linux, you can install micro through [snap](https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install)
```
-choco install micro
+snap install micro --classic
```
+Homebrew and snap are the two "officially" maintained package manager distributions of micro.
+
+Micro is also available through other package managers on Linux such as AUR, Nix, and package managers
+for other operating systems:
+
+* Windows: [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org) and [Scoop](https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop)
+ * `choco install micro`
+ * `scoop install micro`
+* OpenBSD: Available in the ports tree and also available as a binary package
+ * `pkd_add -v micro`
+
### Building 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) and that your `GOPATH` env variable is set (I recommand setting it to `~/go` if you don't have one).
+Make sure that you have Go version 1.11 or greater and Go modules are enabled.
```
-go get -d github.com/zyedidia/micro
-cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/zyedidia/micro
-make install
+git clone https://github.com/zyedidia/micro
+cd micro
+make build
+sudo mv micro /usr/local/bin # optional
```
-The binary will then be installed to `$GOPATH/bin` (or your `$GOBIN`).
+The binary will be placed in the current directory and can be moved to
+anywhere you like (for example `/usr/local/bin`).
+
+The command `make install` will install the binary to `$GOPATH/bin` or `$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.
+You can install directly with `go get` (`go get github.com/zyedidia/micro/cmd/micro`) but this isn't
+recommended because it doesn't build micro with version information, and doesn't disable debug mode.
+
+### MacOS terminal
+
+If you are using MacOS, you should consider using [iTerm2](http://iterm2.com/) instead of the default Mac terminal. The iTerm2 terminal has much better mouse support as well as better handling of key events. For best keybinding behavior, choose `xterm defaults` under `Preferences->Profiles->Keys->Load Preset`. The newest versions also support true color.
+
+If you still insist on using the default Mac terminal, be sure to set `Use Option key as Meta key` under
+`Preferences->Profiles->Keyboard` to use <kbd>option</kbd> as <kbd>alt</kbd>.
### Linux clipboard support
### 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`
+you are using a terminal which does not support 256 colors. 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
+Many older 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.
+mintty. However, if you are on a recent version of Windows 10, the default
+`cmd.exe` should do fine.
+
+### Plan9, Cygwin, Mingw
-### Plan9, NaCl, Cygwin
+These platforms are unfortunately not supported.
-Please note that micro uses the amazing [tcell library](https://github.com/gdamore/tcell), but this
+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).
+Plan9, and Cygwin (although this may change in the future). Micro also doesn't support NaCl (but NaCl is deprecated anyways).
# Usage
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