link: https://micro-editor.github.io/ github: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro tags:

• Linux
• CLI
• editor

A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.

It's a single executable binary so very easy to use anywhere. I got into it during my Chromebook years.

One liner install on most systems:

curl https://getmic.ro | bash

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Micro has been downloaded to the current directory.

You can run it with:

./micro

Options are set in ~/config/micro/settings.json. List of options