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• Libghostty Is Coming

  You literally, and I mean literally read my mind dear random stranger down to the wording. Micro is definitely underrated. Micro is a truly goated software. I mean, it can genuinely replace vscode for small scale editing in the context of shopify that the parent comment was referring to. https://micro-editor.github.io/ It also helped me in physics when I had to remember the units like 10^-6 being micro, 10^-9... - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

• Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Written in Rust

  I use nix-darwin on macos and just made a PR for nix flake support, which works on my macos: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/pull/534. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Written in Rust

  What it reminds me most of actually is Micro. Which is pretty neat. https://micro-editor.github.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Written in Rust

  This is the first time I've heard of micro. More info here: https://micro-editor.github.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim

  Check out micro: https://micro-editor.github.io/ It's a terminal editor with mouse support and sane key bindings. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Notepad++ is 21 years old

  Micro editor (https://micro-editor.github.io/) works best for me but it's terminal-based. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• In your opinion, what is the text-editor equivalent of Openbox?

  Simple yet customizable? My thoughts go to Sublime Text if you want a GUI editor and closed-source is OK, or Micro if you want a TUI editor that is open source: https://micro-editor.github.io/ Like OpenBox, most casual users can be dropped in and know their way around their interfaces, and both options are kinda lightweight compared to other modern options. There is power available for serious customization if you... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• GNU Nano 8 comes with modern key bindings

  This is great! I used to install micro[0] as "nano with better shortcuts", but it was always a bit of an overkill, so I'm really happy with this change. One quirk that remains: even with --modernbindings, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+C will add to nano's clipboard, instead of replacing whatever is there. [0] https://micro-editor.github.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Modeless Vim

  Is Micro[0] not a better, more purpose-fit solution to these issues? (Syntax highlighting quality, etc) Prev discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171294. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Essential Command Line Tools for Developers

  To see more screenshots of micro, showcasing some of the default color schemes, see here. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

• A simple guide for configuring sudo and doas

  There are two main ways to configure sudo.The first one is using the sudoers file.It is located at /etc/sudoers for Linux,and /usr/local/etc/sudoers for FreeBSD respectively.The paths are different,but the configuration works in the same way. A typical sudoers file looks like this. The sudoers file must be edited with the visudo command,which ensures the config is free of errors.Running this command as the... - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Microsoft is exploring adding a command line text editor into Windows, and it wants your feedback

  I really like micro, a nano-like editor with a very sane, regular people friendly keybinding. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Revolutionizing Text Editor Navigation and Altarnative to Vim and GNUEmacs

  I am all for your efforts. I am very keyboard centric. My sweet spot is macOS keyboard shortcuts. Especially those as defined by BBEdit. But I have learned from all the platforms I have worked on. (TRS-DOS, MSDOS, OS/2, macOS, Windows, Linux) I never get into Vim primarily because of HJKL. I have spent many hours trying. But I do use IJKL as arrow keys via hardware keyboard macros, AutoHotKey, Karabiner Elements,... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Sublime text for Android?

  If you don't mind using the termux cli you could consider micro. Source: over 2 years ago

• The ultimate Vi cheat sheet guide

  Micro is lovely. A terminal text editor written with UI conventions that aren't 40 years out of date, so the same Ctrl+[Key] commands and mouse interactions where available that you use in nearly every other piece of software you interact with do the right thing by default, and allow arbitrary remapping to the scriptable internal command line. Decent sophisticated editor feature set with multiple cursors,... Source: over 2 years ago

• What’s the best IDE?

  Switched from vscode to micro (https://micro-editor.github.io) about 1 month ago... Much faster, works in terminal, never looked back. Source: over 2 years ago

• Looking for minimalist distro for a beginner who wants to eventually get nitty gritty

  I would recommend using micro as a starter text editor. It's easy to use and has mouse support (or install what you're familiar with). Source: over 2 years ago

• Which editor do you use to code in Zig?

  Was faffing about with Helix for a few weeks until I went back to good old trusty Micro where I'm comfortable. Although, I'm keeping an eye on Helix, soft wrapping has been merged which should be out in repos sometime soon :). Source: over 2 years ago

• Gedit but in console?

  The closest you will get is micro. It support splits and tabs. You use it like any other GUI editor, it has mouse support and sane default keyboard shortcut. Written in Go. Source: over 2 years ago

• Recovering datastore partition table

  Honestly though, I'm just glad I found the nano binary I had for esxi so I didn't have to go searching for it again. No idea why it or something similar with a more permissive licence like micro isn't included. Vi is powerful, but usually I just want to quickly open and edit a file in a quick ssh session and I want something that just works easy. Source: over 2 years ago

• Want better keybinding parity between micro and Sublime Text?

  I went through the key-bindings in Micro (which use different modifier keys) and added them to Sublime Text:. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago