Micro

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.

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micro is a terminalbased 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, batteriesincluded, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.

featureseasy to usecommon keybindings (ctrls, ctrlc, ctrlv, ctrlz...)extremely good mouse supportcross platformsyntax highlighting (in over 75 languages!)colorscheme supporttrue color support (set the micro_truecolor env variable to 1 to enable it)search and replacesane defaultsplugin system (plugins are written in lua)undo and redounicode supportcopy and paste with the system clipboardsmall and simpleeasily configurable

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