-# 
+# [](https://micro-editor.github.io)
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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.
+**micro** is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the capabilities
+of modern terminals. It comes as a single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies; you can download and use it right away.
-As the name indicates, micro aims to be somewhat of a successor to the nano editor by being easy to install and use in a pinch, but micro also aims to be
-enjoyable to use full time, whether you work in the terminal because you prefer it (like me), or because you need to (over ssh).
+As its name indicates, micro aims to be somewhat of a successor to the nano editor by being easy to install and use.
+It strives to be enjoyable as a full-time editor for people who prefer to work in a terminal, or those who regularly edit files over SSH.
Here is a picture of micro editing its source code.
-To see more screenshots of micro, showcasing all of the default colorschemes, see [here](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/screenshots.html).
+To see more screenshots of micro, showcasing all of the default color schemes, 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
-# 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)
+ - [macOS terminal](#macos-terminal)
- [Linux clipboard support](#linux-clipboard-support)
- [Colors and syntax highlighting](#colors-and-syntax-highlighting)
- [Plan9, Cygwin](#plan9-cygwin)
- [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
-* 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)!)
-* 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
-* Macros
-* Common editor things such as undo/redo, line numbers, Unicode support, softwrap...
+## Features
+
+- Easy to use and install.
+- No dependencies or external files are needed — just the binary you can download further down the page.
+- Multiple cursors.
+- Common keybindings (<kbd>Ctrl+S</kbd>, <kbd>Ctrl+C</kbd>, <kbd>Ctrl+V</kbd>, <kbd>Ctrl+Z</kbd>, …).
+ - 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.
+- 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).
+- Color scheme support.
+ - By default, micro comes with 16, 256, and true color themes.
+- True color support (set the `MICRO_TRUECOLOR` environment 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.
+- Macros.
+- Common editor features such as undo/redo, line numbers, Unicode support, soft wrapping, …
Although not yet implemented, I hope to add more features such as autocompletion ([#174](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/issues/174)) or a tree view ([#249](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/issues/249)) in the future.
-# Installation
+## Installation
To install micro, you can download a [prebuilt binary](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases), or you can build it from source.
### 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)).
+There is a script which can install micro for you by downloading the latest prebuilt binary. You can find it at <https://getmic.ro>.
Then you can easily install micro:
- $ curl https://getmic.ro | bash
-
-The script will install the micro binary to the current directory.
+```bash
+curl https://getmic.ro | bash
+```
-See the [Github page](https://github.com/benweissmann/getmic.ro) for more information.
+The script will install the micro binary to the current directory. See its [GitHub repository](https://github.com/benweissmann/getmic.ro) for more information.
### Package managers
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 recommend setting it to `~/go` if you don't have one).
+Make sure that you have Go version 1.5 or greater; Go 1.4 will only work if your version supports cgo.
```
go get -d github.com/zyedidia/micro/cmd/micro
Please make sure that when you are working with micro's code, you are working on your `GOPATH`.
-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 -u github.com/zyedidia/micro/cmd/micro`) but this is not recommended because it doesn't build micro with version information which is useful for the plugin manager.
-### MacOS terminal
+### 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 are using macOS, you should consider using [iTerm2](http://iterm2.com/) instead of the default terminal (Terminal.app). 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.
### Linux clipboard support
-On Linux, clipboard support requires the 'xclip' or 'xsel' commands to be installed.
+On Linux, clipboard support requires the `xclip` or `xsel` commands to be installed.
For Ubuntu:
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.
+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.
### 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`.
+you are using a terminal which does not support 256 color mode. Try changing the color scheme to `simple`
+by pressing <kbd>Ctrl+E</kbd> 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
+that micro's default color scheme won't look very good. You can either set
+the color scheme to `simple`, or download a better terminal emulator, like
mintty.
### Plan9, 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, and Cygwin (although this may change in the future). Micro also doesn't support NaCl (but NaCl is deprecated anyways).
+Plan9, and Cygwin (although this may change in the future). micro also doesn't support NaCl (which is deprecated anyway).
-# Usage
+## Usage
Once you have built the editor, simply start it by running `micro path/to/file.txt` or simply `micro` to open an empty buffer.
-Micro also supports creating buffers from `stdin`:
+micro also supports creating buffers from `stdin`:
```sh
ifconfig | micro
will select text. You can also double click to enable word selection, and triple
click to enable line selection.
-# Documentation and Help
+## Documentation and Help
-Micro has a built-in help system which you can access by pressing `Ctrl-E` and typing `help`. Additionally, you can
+micro has a built-in help system which you can access by pressing <kbd>Ctrl+E</kbd> 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)
+- [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 configuration features micro offers.
-# Contributing
+## Contributing
If you find any bugs, please report them! I am also happy to accept pull requests from anyone.
projects / micro.git / commitdiff