I've been using it for probably 6 months and I love it! You said it perfectly. It fits right between vim and nano. It's perfect for people who are reluctant to dive into vim, which is why I went with it.
I've always just hated vim, no offense to vim users but it's so bloody unintuative, whereas micro lets you use it as a noob or all the way to a power user if you choose.
Finally some great content about micro. Have been using it for at least 1.5 years and I absolutely love it! First thing on a new system is installing micro...
YES I NEEDED This--- I used nano once and had my system so screwed up I had to reload everything!! ha. I LIKE this-- it actually makes SENSE!!! AND i love your videos-- so simple- straight -forward with NO fluff and wordy BS... THANK YOU SO MUCH.
It's so good to see a nice editor. The two things I always missed from nano was user friendly text manipulations and multiple cursors. It's such a liberating experience. I never cared to learn the weirdness that is vim besides the mandatory basics for the systems where I had no choice
I am one of those guys that really doesn't like vi, gotta say that from the start. That being said from Solaris, HPUX, SGI, xxx BSD, MacOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu ALL have VI installed. On a production system you can't just start installing binaries. If you're going to make a career out of Unix/Linux I suggest you learn the tools. Buy a book on VI, Print out a cheat sheet. From the looks of Micro you're going to have to learn a bunch of keyboard ctrl-xxx commands anyway might as well learn vi. And VI once you learn it is SOOOO powerful and you can really cut your editing time down if you learn it.
I'll have to give that a try. For most simple things I've been using Nano, and for more involved files Vim. Micro seems like a good compromise between them.
LOVE how you explain things. As a novice/beginner have always wanted to learn how to workbfrom the command prompt. My life dream is to learn PYTHON. Have no plans to work as a programmer. Iwas a RN for 36 yrs, specialty was critical/transplants.. I find working with computers much more interesting. Love computers.
Python doesn't need to be a "life dream". It is probably the easiest to language to learn. Very high level interpereted language. Will be easier than you think.
It's 12 M because all the required packages are statically linked, so that it is fully portable and not dependent on specific versions of external libraries that you may not have installed on your system.
@@JohnJohnson-ox3uc sounds hard. I am learning it, though. I love the color schemes (I accidentally set it to my system's which is FAR prettier than micro's) and split screens option, but dislike how I have to save or open a file: If I didn't have the GUI file manager to look at and/or copy/paste from, it would be a big hassle (such as on a remote server - which is why I looked into it).
when you login to whatever unix/linux computer you will always find vim or nano. So stick with one of these. What will you do if you have to login to a server and it doesn't have micro and it doesn't have internet connection?
You definitely don't find nano everywhere. Not even vim. But there will surely be some variant of vi there. So, learn enough vi to be comfortable navigating through a document and on your personal machine use whatever you like best. I think about switching to micro but I have a really bizarre vim configuration that works just right for me.
I was actually wondering what programming language can produce such a small and feature rich text editor, and C first came to mind, but it's actually made in Go.
>C first came to mind When I saw the size of this editor, I thought it was written in javascript along with JS runtime engine. It's not bad (I have my new favorite editor in general), but I think C/C++ would be better.
I'm impressed. I run Slackware -current and micro is included with the standard distribution. I usually use ed as my go-to text editor, but I'll have to take a look at this. Syntax highlighting would be nice.
@@thingsiplayNo I wanted to learn Centos so I searched for tutorial and he had a full playlist of high quality centos tutorials. Then I looked into his other videos and honestly all of them are gold!
When you have all the functionalities (including help texts, colorizing schemes and skins) in only one binary file, I think 12MB is not that big. OK. VIM is much smaller, but there are several auxiliary files not included in the main binary
I've started using text editors in the age of TurboPascal 5.5 and to this day I can't live without WordStar key bindings so first thing I do on a new Linux system is to install joe editor.
I'm quickly moving all my writing into Micro. I am currently looking into how to timestamp and how to create a color highlight for .fountain files. I didn't know I could hit tab from command mode for autofill options, thanks for the tips.
@@LearnLinuxTV I used solarized where ever I can, like on Notepad ++ on Windows, Geany on Linux and on my terminals in general. I find it easy on the eyes and the syntax highlighting looks plesant.
@@Kenny_Ded thanks. i can try it on my Windows 10 VM so that it doens't mess up much if I don't like it. I think I saw that it has a portable version, too, and, for some reason, I like that.
Just installed it - the first thing I don't like is the "SHIFT+ARROW KEY" used for text selection. The Konsole terminal uses SHIFT+LEFT/RIGHT to switch between terminal tabs. I now have to change this in Konsole, or figure out how to change it in Micro.
Thanks for the interesting video. Although I probably won't switch from vim/Kate/VSCode combo, the most interesting features for me are the common shortcuts (CTRL-Z, CTRL-C, etc. ), copy-paste and mouse support in a terminal editor. Not sure yet how I feel about statically linked all-inclusive binaries (with themes, syntax highlighters and configurations inside). Although, you can customize those through user config files, I prefer external files including those that come by default. On the other hand, having a single binary has its benefits in simplicity.
What is the benefit of micro? The system comes with Vim and nano. Are the space savings worth automating the removal of existing tools? It looks like everything is included in a single binary. Is there a benefit to that?
It uses shortcuts from a standard familiar to most GUI users, that's the main selling point. Besides that, compare selection and mouse support, much more reliable in micro.
First thing I grab entering chroot in an arch build. My terminal choice in graphical is terminator. You can split screens. Perfect when you gotta bounce between root and admin users accounts.
I haven't figured out how to manually set syntax highlighting for custom languages based on C++, but I just ended up ending the files with .cpp temporarily as a workaround. Thanks for the tutorial, the mult-windows feature reminds me of xpanes for tmux.
Thanks for this overview. I'm looking at micro to get used to CLI (did not use it growing up) and with the end of Atom. I'm noticing replaceall is only for one file. I'm used to being able to do find and replace for all files within a folder on Atom. Any suggested workflows for doing that while on Micro, or other tools? (Am on Win11)
Only if you want to use a version that's (usually) very old. I find that these days, Ubuntu's "official" packages are rather dated, reminding me of what Fedora/Red Hat used to be years ago. (Since then, Fedora has come a long way; but I'm a Manjaro user myself these days.)
Wow this looks cool. I'm at minutes 9:09. My test of this editor will be, touch test.py and then micro test.py to see if it python highlights as I type in python syntax
How are people moving the cursor up and down using the keyboard in Micro? Using the arrow keys or another key combo? The arrow keys get rather tiresome to use since they are a bit inconveniently located..
At minutes 11:02 and saw how you executed and opened commands help. Idea, could I highlight a command while I'm looking at it--yes execute, "that one now". Okay patience. I'll reach minutes 16:14 to start playing. Lol
Vim entire distro is 9Mb micro is 12mb just for the binary. Vim has syntax highlight, autocomplete, package manager, regular expressions, support for different terminals as well as GUI interface, macro support, built-in scripting language, ftp client, etc etc. micro has syntax highlight.
Of what you list, the only thing micro is missing that Vim supposedly has, is an ftp client and I can't imagine a need for a package manager. I'm sure there are other features the venerable Vim has, but these aren't them.
I was hoping to use this in/with a remote headless Pi server. Is that going to work? If I SSH into the server, can I install and use micro that way? I have micro on my desktop PC, but it needs to be on the server to use it there. Already tried, but haven't tried to install it on the server yet.
set colorscheme dukeubuntu-tc, micro text editor works on my raspberry pi os, will it replace my midnight commander editor (mcedit) maybe. Liked the window split options vsplit/hsplit. Tested with chromebook ssh to the rpi zero w, has no gui so xclip not used, "set clipboard terminal" to get rid of remark. ctrl-t and ctrl-w are reserved for the chromebook browser, but mouse click does change the active text window. mcedit can also open multiple files but only shows the first or the chosen (Window, list, choice)
Good day. Good video, I tried this a while back and thought it would be good to use but did not follow through. when I saw your video I decided to try again. Works well, I looked at the commands and addons and they say required version 2.0 or greater. I checked the version and it is 0.8 in the help about text. So I deleted and reinstalled the different downloads and they all marked 2.0... bur after installation showed .08 in help about text. I am going to use it but am wondering is this just a mistake or what?
I've been using Micro for a while, but there's a little big problem and it's that the clipboard doesn't work properly over SSH. I've tried setting the clipboard on Micro to Internal/External/Terminal, but none of the three work at all. Do I need to install Xclip on the guest computer as well? And if so, how do I even install it when using it from Windows?
Really love this editor and appreciate this video making it super easy to install and set up. Is there a way to set up syntax highlighting on additional file types? I use a static site generator which has all the files ending with .astro but they are basically HTML files with some javascript and css in them. It would be great if I could tel Micro that those files use the same highlighting as html files. I can't find anything online other than creating my own highlight profile though.
I am knowing nano and vim for terminal editing. If I can I avoid use it in terminal always preferring full feature IDE-s like TexStudio, Code::Blocks, Visual studio, Pycharm etc. or at least VS code, Notepad++. However I am appreciated the effort which you put in this video, I give you a like.
micro is the editor of choice for terminal. i don't need all the linters and chasers or whatever else the young kids use these days. and since i use an immutable/containerised OS, the fact that it is a one file, no dependency executable makes it ideal. oh and when in doubt, gruv-box theme for the win.
After VIM and its keys it is hard to use arrow keys. Also, VIM modes (normal, insert, visual, etc.) are so useful, that other editors are too uncomfortable to use after VIM.
It does look nice and clean, but it will not replace Kate as my preferred editor. However, that is of course depending on my use case. And as far as I can tell, Kate also has a very small file size?
dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package} ' | grep kate ... It looks like Kate is about twice the size of micro, but it's specific to KDE and not available in terminal. I don't know what the benefit of the small file size is, though.
Hi Jay, I liked the video, Most of the time these editors are useful when you working on remote linux server for prod issues. One thing I would like to know is how large files it can handle. Secondly most of the time, if I want to quickly run a snippet which can very a program, can I open a terminal next right and verify the program. I mean similar to most of the ide(s) like atom or vscode editor. if u can come up with one more video on plugins and important linux commands for debugging a prod issue, that will really help the community
thanks for this tutorial! unfortunately, my copy and paste from outside the system to inside the system didn't work. I install xclip but when i tried to use xclip and i get this error Error: Can't open display: (null)
how do I scroll using the mouse? I have a huge file and have to go back and forth (thanks to covid a have to use micro or jed for my exams!... dont ask)
your joke about arch users was funny. i will look into Linode. For a female, the colorscheme material-tc may be fine - it is a dark gray will some greyed-pastels.
@@eduardomunhoz1581 ctrl-e..help keybindings and search (ctrl-f) for word pane... The possible pane types are `buffer` (normal buffer), `command` (command bar), and `terminal` (terminal pane). The defaults for the command and terminal panes are given below: Should help...you can customize what you want...
@@eduardomunhoz1581 You can simply use ctrl-e..enter...term..enter (did not try beast such as kitty..). Works with standard pop-os terminal..you can use vsplit before ctrl-e..enter..term...to get dual pane
Thanks for the vid, im using micro text editor now... Does anyone knows how break lines? (its when you can read the whole long line in the screen... in my language is quebra de linha in mousepad)
If you don't like google, give dte a chance. A much lighter and compatible variant which even has tabs and has all of it's features in the tty/console.
I would use neovim if I wanted a terminal-based editor (as neovim supports the XDG spec, so it puts its config in .config instead of .vimrc / .vim), but otherwise yeah. I normally stick to graphical editors though, even if I want to use vim key bindings.
Great tip! Vim was always a bit "too much" for my needs and nano was not enough. Micro fills the gap. Thank you!
I've been using it for probably 6 months and I love it! You said it perfectly. It fits right between vim and nano. It's perfect for people who are reluctant to dive into vim, which is why I went with it.
I've always just hated vim, no offense to vim users but it's so bloody unintuative, whereas micro lets you use it as a noob or all the way to a power user if you choose.
I've been using micro for a few months. I really like it and it's becoming my go-to CLI text editor. I've put it on all my Linux systems.
Micro works on all systems, BSD, Linux, Windows and Mac :) I've been using it for 2 years now, great to see it getting noticed
Does it work on AIX?
@@Eugensson no, but neither do files over 2GB so I don't know why you'd want to use it as a development server.
12MB is actually massive for an editor like this. It must have a bunch of system libraries statically linked into it or something.
Finally some great content about micro. Have been using it for at least 1.5 years and I absolutely love it! First thing on a new system is installing micro...
Absolutely love micro! Absolutely perfect for people who prefer Nano but want things like syntax highlight out of the box.
YES I NEEDED This--- I used nano once and had my system so screwed up I had to reload everything!! ha. I LIKE this-- it actually makes SENSE!!! AND i love your videos-- so simple- straight -forward with NO fluff and wordy BS... THANK YOU SO MUCH.
It's so good to see a nice editor. The two things I always missed from nano was user friendly text manipulations and multiple cursors. It's such a liberating experience. I never cared to learn the weirdness that is vim besides the mandatory basics for the systems where I had no choice
I am one of those guys that really doesn't like vi, gotta say that from the start. That being said from Solaris, HPUX, SGI, xxx BSD, MacOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu ALL have VI installed. On a production system you can't just start installing binaries. If you're going to make a career out of Unix/Linux I suggest you learn the tools. Buy a book on VI, Print out a cheat sheet. From the looks of Micro you're going to have to learn a bunch of keyboard ctrl-xxx commands anyway might as well learn vi. And VI once you learn it is SOOOO powerful and you can really cut your editing time down if you learn it.
I'll have to give that a try. For most simple things I've been using Nano, and for more involved files Vim. Micro seems like a good compromise between them.
LOVE how you explain things. As a novice/beginner have always wanted
to learn how to workbfrom the command prompt. My life dream is to learn
PYTHON. Have no plans to work as a programmer. Iwas a RN for 36 yrs,
specialty was critical/transplants.. I find working with computers much
more interesting. Love computers.
Python doesn't need to be a "life dream". It is probably the easiest to language to learn. Very high level interpereted language. Will be easier than you think.
Just downloaded this on my Mac tonight, and I already love it to pieces!
Overwriting ctrl+s and ctrl+q in a terminal used to be a deadly sin
If you are worried about being a sinner, it is trivial to bind commands to other keys.
This is what I've been looking for a long time, big thanks!
It's 12 M because all the required packages are statically linked, so that it is fully portable and not dependent on specific versions of external libraries that you may not have installed on your system.
if it is portable (like an AppImage?), does that mean I can copy it *after* setting it up/customizing it, to another PC and keep my settings?
@@genkiferal7178 you'll probably have to copy a config file over as well.
@@JohnJohnson-ox3uc sounds hard. I am learning it, though. I love the color schemes (I accidentally set it to my system's which is FAR prettier than micro's) and split screens option, but dislike how I have to save or open a file: If I didn't have the GUI file manager to look at and/or copy/paste from, it would be a big hassle (such as on a remote server - which is why I looked into it).
it doesn't require any dependencies once you install the dependencies
Acabo de conocer a micro y fue amor a primera vista. Gracias x tus consejos. Saludos!
when you login to whatever unix/linux computer you will always find vim or nano. So stick with one of these. What will you do if you have to login to a server and it doesn't have micro and it doesn't have internet connection?
You definitely don't find nano everywhere. Not even vim. But there will surely be some variant of vi there. So, learn enough vi to be comfortable navigating through a document and on your personal machine use whatever you like best. I think about switching to micro but I have a really bizarre vim configuration that works just right for me.
Hit the beach...
The highest use for vi is for installing another text editor. (Paraphrasing the original) ;-)
Actually, "micro" is very helpful when you work with Termux on the go, helped me a lot than vim or emacs.
I was actually wondering what programming language can produce such a small and feature rich text editor, and C first came to mind, but it's actually made in Go.
Go figure.
If it were written in C, I'm sure it would be *a lot* smaller.
>C first came to mind
When I saw the size of this editor, I thought it was written in javascript along with JS runtime engine.
It's not bad (I have my new favorite editor in general), but I think C/C++ would be better.
Man, 12 MB is *not* a small executable :-)
@madseh de 244K on AMD64 (Nano 3.2)
vim is 2.4 MB and including dependencies it's 31 MB.
The Linux kernel, version 5.4.0 for x86_64 compiled for Ubuntu, compressed but with a bunch of compiled-in modules, is ~12 MB :-)
@@vladix32 yes, but with only the kernel you can`t edit files ;)
@@jurgenhohenester8933 My friend did a 2.5 MB ARM CLFS fairly recently. He has also done 7MB x86 LFSvwith only busybox.
Would love to see this in-depth. I wanna see if it's feature set is tempting enough to make me switch from vim?
Vim has far more features than micro could possibly ever have. It may be less friendly to configure but you can do just about anything inside of vim.
the only software with a longer list of features than vim (that will ever be made in this universe) is emacs. so you might as well quit searching now.
@@vim449 You say "Vim has far more features" like that's a good thing. ;-)
I'm impressed. I run Slackware -current and micro is included with the standard distribution.
I usually use ed as my go-to text editor, but I'll have to take a look at this.
Syntax highlighting would be nice.
I found your channel recently.... let me correct myself I found a gold mine!!!
@@thingsiplayNo I wanted to learn Centos so I searched for tutorial and he had a full playlist of high quality centos tutorials.
Then I looked into his other videos and honestly all of them are gold!
Interesting, did that channel mention mine?
12Mb small? It isBLOAT
ViM 8.2 = 2.8MB's! Seems micro is written in Go and seems to include the Go runtime engine within the binary.
When you have all the functionalities (including help texts, colorizing schemes and skins) in only one binary file, I think 12MB is not that big.
OK. VIM is much smaller, but there are several auxiliary files not included in the main binary
@@matthewstott3493 on arch, vim 8.2 = 3.9MB and it depends on vim-runtime = 31.3MB and others dependencies... Who is the bloat now?
@@jiraphat2200 Vim is so much more powerful tho.
@@matthewstott3493 vim + dependency is more then 30 MB
I've started using text editors in the age of TurboPascal 5.5 and to this day I can't live without WordStar key bindings so first thing I do on a new Linux system is to install joe editor.
I loved joe, using ws bindings but I force myself to use nano cos if you accidently hit ctrl-s on the cli linux crashes.. :'(
bonus points for mentioning WordStar :)
@@derekfrost8991 i don't think it crashes, it just suspends output. you need to press ctrl+q to unsuspend
(can't english rn)
Ah, Wordstar, my first word processor on 8" floppy on my Z80 CP/M. WordStar 3, IIRC. Those were the days....
in the old days a lot of folks were using SLED by Sam Willmot. It was a great little text editor that was less than 20kb - talk about tight code.
pretty nice. I'm currently using it and enjoying a lot. My favorite theme is Darcula
Thanks for the suggestion
Micro might have been my editor of choice if I had found it before vim.
VERY good explanation ❤
I'm quickly moving all my writing into Micro. I am currently looking into how to timestamp and how to create a color highlight for .fountain files.
I didn't know I could hit tab from command mode for autofill options, thanks for the tips.
Thanks for the tip, Jay. I just installed micro on my Manjaro system and will start using it over nano. Favorite color scheme: solarized.
I like that one too :)
@@LearnLinuxTV I used solarized where ever I can, like on Notepad ++ on Windows, Geany on Linux and on my terminals in general. I find it easy on the eyes and the syntax highlighting looks plesant.
@@genkiferal7178 Have a look at Geany. It's small and lightweight. It's my go-to GUI text editor for Linux.
@@Kenny_Ded thanks. i can try it on my Windows 10 VM so that it doens't mess up much if I don't like it. I think I saw that it has a portable version, too, and, for some reason, I like that.
that's very cool. now I have a good text editor on my headless Raspberry Pi
Just installed it - the first thing I don't like is the "SHIFT+ARROW KEY" used for text selection. The Konsole terminal uses SHIFT+LEFT/RIGHT to switch between terminal tabs. I now have to change this in Konsole, or figure out how to change it in Micro.
Thanks dude - was looking for something better than Nano but easier than VI
Yes, i've been looking for something between vi and nano.
Totally switching to this!
This is freakin' neat! 💎✨👌
I really like the "dukedark-tc" colorscheme.
yeah! its pretty good
Thanks for the interesting video. Although I probably won't switch from vim/Kate/VSCode combo, the most interesting features for me are the common shortcuts (CTRL-Z, CTRL-C, etc. ), copy-paste and mouse support in a terminal editor.
Not sure yet how I feel about statically linked all-inclusive binaries (with themes, syntax highlighters and configurations inside). Although, you can customize those through user config files, I prefer external files including those that come by default. On the other hand, having a single binary has its benefits in simplicity.
What is the benefit of micro? The system comes with Vim and nano. Are the space savings worth automating the removal of existing tools? It looks like everything is included in a single binary. Is there a benefit to that?
It uses shortcuts from a standard familiar to most GUI users, that's the main selling point. Besides that, compare selection and mouse support, much more reliable in micro.
im loving it
Thank you, Jay.
Very useful video. I look forward to learning this tool.
Would highly recommend fzf plugin and binding CtrlO to command:fzf. I use it in Windows, btw. Works great. Puts Windows search to shame.
First thing I grab entering chroot in an arch build. My terminal choice in graphical is terminator. You can split screens. Perfect when you gotta bounce between root and admin users accounts.
I´ve been using VIM for one year,, I still don´t know how to exit...
So I´ll try this one, CTRL-Q sound easy.
I think Micro should have replaced Nano as the "easy" terminal text editor a long time ago.
Great video as always, yet to find out how to do a spell check with micro
I haven't figured out how to manually set syntax highlighting for custom languages based on C++, but I just ended up ending the files with .cpp temporarily as a workaround. Thanks for the tutorial, the mult-windows feature reminds me of xpanes for tmux.
my preferred colorscheme is nord-16 from the nordcolors plugin ;)
Wow, this is exactly what I'd been longing for for years. A vsCode/SublimeText -like editor for the terminal. FINALLY!!!
Thanks for this overview. I'm looking at micro to get used to CLI (did not use it growing up) and with the end of Atom. I'm noticing replaceall is only for one file. I'm used to being able to do find and replace for all files within a folder on Atom. Any suggested workflows for doing that while on Micro, or other tools? (Am on Win11)
Micro is packaged for Debian (apt install micro). If not yet in Ubuntu I expect it in the next version.
doubt between colorscheme cmc-16 (because of transparancy supporting on my mac) and 'one-dark'
I'm not sure, but think, that micro is also available in default Ubuntu repos. So don't need to look for and download aside.
Only if you want to use a version that's (usually) very old. I find that these days, Ubuntu's "official" packages are rather dated, reminding me of what Fedora/Red Hat used to be years ago. (Since then, Fedora has come a long way; but I'm a Manjaro user myself these days.)
Wow this looks cool. I'm at minutes 9:09. My test of this editor will be, touch test.py and then micro test.py to see if it python highlights as I type in python syntax
@@DistantComputer yes, this is my new favorite editor
Amazing, I will give it a try! Thanks :)
Ill give it a try. Thanks
Nano is your bro, when you adjust config files
How are people moving the cursor up and down using the keyboard in Micro? Using the arrow keys or another key combo? The arrow keys get rather tiresome to use since they are a bit inconveniently located..
At minutes 11:02 and saw how you executed and opened commands help. Idea, could I highlight a command while I'm looking at it--yes execute, "that one now". Okay patience. I'll reach minutes 16:14 to start playing. Lol
oh thanks so much you definitely made my day! :-)
Micro has already changed my choice of a text editor (on a console). (I was using nano)
thanks soo much, its a really good one..
Vim entire distro is 9Mb micro is 12mb just for the binary. Vim has syntax highlight, autocomplete, package manager, regular expressions, support for different terminals as well as GUI interface, macro support, built-in scripting language, ftp client, etc etc. micro has syntax highlight.
Vim has 9mb only binary, without deps. Micro has 12mb with deps included. Micro is statically linked.
Of what you list, the only thing micro is missing that Vim supposedly has, is an ftp client and I can't imagine a need for a package manager.
I'm sure there are other features the venerable Vim has, but these aren't them.
Another thing missing from Micro is a vibrant community. This is sad.
It's available in debian bullseye repositories and also in buster-backports
I was hoping to use this in/with a remote headless Pi server. Is that going to work? If I SSH into the server, can I install and use micro that way? I have micro on my desktop PC, but it needs to be on the server to use it there. Already tried, but haven't tried to install it on the server yet.
Wow this is simple and usefull!
I think you can use the ubuntu package manager, it might be a bit older but no dowloading scripts from the interwebz
set colorscheme dukeubuntu-tc,
micro text editor works on my raspberry pi os, will it replace my midnight commander editor (mcedit) maybe.
Liked the window split options vsplit/hsplit.
Tested with chromebook ssh to the rpi zero w, has no gui so xclip not used, "set clipboard terminal" to get rid of remark.
ctrl-t and ctrl-w are reserved for the chromebook browser, but mouse click does change the active text window.
mcedit can also open multiple files but only shows the first or the chosen (Window, list, choice)
thanks. I understood part of what you wrote. i was wondering about those things.
Good day. Good video, I tried this a while back and thought it would be good to use but did not follow through. when I saw your video I decided to try again. Works well, I looked at the commands and addons and they say required version 2.0 or greater. I checked the version and it is 0.8 in the help about text. So I deleted and reinstalled the different downloads and they all marked 2.0... bur after installation showed .08 in help about text. I am going to use it but am wondering is this just a mistake or what?
I've been using Micro for a while, but there's a little big problem and it's that the clipboard doesn't work properly over SSH. I've tried setting the clipboard on Micro to Internal/External/Terminal, but none of the three work at all. Do I need to install Xclip on the guest computer as well? And if so, how do I even install it when using it from Windows?
that white bar at the bottom doesn't appear in mine, i use ubuntu/lubuntu with qterminal
Thank You very much! 👍 🇷🇺
Really love this editor and appreciate this video making it super easy to install and set up.
Is there a way to set up syntax highlighting on additional file types? I use a static site generator which has all the files ending with .astro but they are basically HTML files with some javascript and css in them. It would be great if I could tel Micro that those files use the same highlighting as html files. I can't find anything online other than creating my own highlight profile though.
I am knowing nano and vim for terminal editing. If I can I avoid use it in terminal always preferring full feature IDE-s like TexStudio, Code::Blocks, Visual studio, Pycharm etc. or at least VS code, Notepad++. However I am appreciated the effort which you put in this video, I give you a like.
micro is the editor of choice for terminal. i don't need all the linters and chasers or whatever else the young kids use these days. and since i use an immutable/containerised OS, the fact that it is a one file, no dependency executable makes it ideal.
oh and when in doubt, gruv-box theme for the win.
After VIM and its keys it is hard to use arrow keys. Also, VIM modes (normal, insert, visual, etc.) are so useful, that other editors are too uncomfortable to use after VIM.
Same here . There is no comparison to VIM once you know it
It does look nice and clean, but it will not replace Kate as my preferred editor. However, that is of course depending on my use case. And as far as I can tell, Kate also has a very small file size?
dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}
' | grep kate ... It looks like Kate is about twice the size of micro, but it's specific to KDE and not available in terminal. I don't know what the benefit of the small file size is, though.
Hi Jay, I liked the video, Most of the time these editors are useful when you working on remote linux server for prod issues. One thing I would like to know is how large files it can handle. Secondly most of the time, if I want to quickly run a snippet which can very a program, can I open a terminal next right and verify the program. I mean similar to most of the ide(s) like atom or vscode editor. if u can come up with one more video on plugins and important linux commands for debugging a prod issue, that will really help the community
thanks for this tutorial!
unfortunately, my copy and paste from outside the system to inside the system didn't work.
I install xclip but when i tried to use xclip and i get this error
Error: Can't open display: (null)
how do I scroll using the mouse? I have a huge file and have to go back and forth (thanks to covid a have to use micro or jed for my exams!... dont ask)
Great CLI text Editor
Sometimes after closing it the process is still running and consuming cpu!!?
your joke about arch users was funny. i will look into Linode.
For a female, the colorscheme material-tc may be fine - it is a dark gray will some greyed-pastels.
Darcula theme is the best
I was looking for a replacement for nano. I’ll definitely try micro. :)
how can i make micro the default editor in midnite commander?
Have you looked at the Joe editor?
I install xclip but still getting the red message, any recommendations?
can I hsplit the editor and having the lower one be a terminal similar to what you'd have in vscode? how?
Read the doc...
@@almarn I have, and I honestly can't find it
@@eduardomunhoz1581 ctrl-e..help keybindings and search (ctrl-f) for word pane...
The possible pane types are `buffer` (normal buffer), `command` (command bar),
and `terminal` (terminal pane). The defaults for the command and terminal panes
are given below:
Should help...you can customize what you want...
@@eduardomunhoz1581 You can simply use ctrl-e..enter...term..enter (did not try beast such as kitty..). Works with standard pop-os terminal..you can use vsplit before ctrl-e..enter..term...to get dual pane
Thanks for the vid, im using micro text editor now... Does anyone knows how break lines? (its when you can read the whole long line in the screen... in my language is quebra de linha in mousepad)
If you don't like google, give dte a chance.
A much lighter and compatible variant which even has tabs and has all of it's features in the tty/console.
Question from a newbie here...
What does root:root do
in the following line (from your video)
$ sudo chown root:root micro
change the ownership of micro.
root:root = owner:usergroup
In a nutshell, what is the most outstanding thing that micro has that nano or pico don’t have?
Good keyboard keys...and much more...
can you tell me how to run plugins?
I'd rather use Vim.
I write my Unix codes in the following matter:
echo “include math” >> code.py
echo “a = 5.0” >> code.py
echo “b = 3.0” >> code.py
echo “c = a + b” >> code.py
echo “print(c)” >> code.py
I would use neovim if I wanted a terminal-based editor (as neovim supports the XDG spec, so it puts its config in .config instead of .vimrc / .vim), but otherwise yeah. I normally stick to graphical editors though, even if I want to use vim key bindings.
better emacs+evil
@@ajarivas72 And in the last line you forgot one of the both >
@@gunsncodes6665
Hi.
Could you please indicate where the “>” is missing ?
echo “include math” >> code.py
echo “a = 5.0” >> code.py
echo “b = 3.0” >> code.py
echo “c = a + b” >> code.py
echo “print(c)” >> code.py