---
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: 

```shell
curl https://getmic.ro | bash
```

```
 __  __ _                  ___           _        _ _          _ _
|  \/  (_) ___ _ __ ___   |_ _|_ __  ___| |_ __  | | | ___  __| | |
| |\/| | |/ __| '__/ _ \   | || '_ \/ __| __/ _\ | | |/ _ \/ _  | |
| |  | | | (__| | | (_) |  | || | | \__ \ || (_| | | |  __/ (_| |_|
|_|  |_|_|\___|_|  \___/  |___|_| |_|___/\__\__,_|_|_|\___|\__,_(_)

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](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/blob/master/runtime/help/options.md)