Awesome Linux Tools: The 'micro' text editor

"micro" is an awesome text editor that I've discovered recently, and I wanted to create a video and show you guys. It's a small, lightweight and feature-packed text editor that's easy to use and install. I give it an overview in this video.

Downloading: 2:09
Installation: 4:29
Installing xclip (enable copy/paste): 6:30
Syntax highlighting: 8:26
Command bar: 9:17
Replacing text: 11:46
Horizontal/vertical splitting: 12:13

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[amitzdullnickerk]

Great tip! Vim was always a bit "too much" for my needs and nano was not enough. Micro fills the gap. Thank you!

[callowaysutton]

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

[RickRomig]

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.

[LampJustin]

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...

[mattherman]

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.

[CGA]

This is what I've been looking for a long time, big thanks!

[dimitris]

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

[youtubeviewer]

12MB is actually massive for an editor like this. It must have a bunch of system libraries statically linked into it or something.

[davidwayne]

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.

[miss-astronomikal-mcmxcvii]

Just downloaded this on my Mac tonight, and I already love it to pieces!

[Practical-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.

[anhvo.]

Absolutely love micro! Absolutely perfect for people who prefer Nano but want things like syntax highlight out of the box.

[AlanWagoner]

Very useful video. I look forward to learning this tool.

[berndeckenfels]

Overwriting ctrl+s and ctrl+q in a terminal used to be a deadly sin

[diegodario]

pretty nice. I'm currently using it and enjoying a lot. My favorite theme is Darcula

[RichM]

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 <insert Unix / Linux system here> 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.

[cherten]

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.

[ricardomareel]

Amazing, I will give it a try! Thanks :)

[bernardputersznit]

Thanks dude - was looking for something better than Nano but easier than VI

[cptbrncls]

it doesn't require any dependencies once you install the dependencies