Micro help text

Keybindings

These are the default keybindings, along with their actions.

Editor bindings

Ctrl-q: Quit
Ctrl-e: Execute a command
Ctrl-g: Toggle help text
Ctrl-b: Run a shell command

Buffer bindings

Ctrl-s: Save
Ctrl-o: Open file
Ctrl-z: Undo
Ctrl-y: Redo
Ctrl-f: Find
Ctrl-n: Find next
Ctrl-p: Find previous
Ctrl-a: Select all
Ctrl-c: Copy
Ctrl-x: Cut
Ctrl-k: Cut line
Ctrl-v: Paste
Ctrl-u: Half page up
Ctrl-d: Half page down
PageUp: Page up
PageDown: Page down
Home: Go to beginning of file
End: Go to end of file
Ctrl-r: Toggle line numbers

The buffer bindings may be rebound using the ~/.config/micro/bindings.json file. Each key is bound to an action.

For example, to bind Ctrl-y to undo and Ctrl-z to redo, you could put the following in the bindings.json file.

{
    "CtrlY": "Undo",
    "CtrlZ": "Redo"
}

Possible commands

You can execute an editor command by pressing Ctrl-e followed by the command. Here are the possible commands that you can use.

quit: Quits micro.
save: Saves the current buffer.

replace "search" "value": This will replace search with value. Note that search must be a valid regex. If one of the arguments does not have any spaces in it, you may omit the quotes.

set option value: sets the option to value. Please see the next section for a list of options you can set.

run sh-command: runs the given shell command in the background. The command's output will be displayed in one line when it finishes running.

Options

Micro stores all of the user configuration in its configuration directory.

Micro uses the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/micro as the configuration directory. As per the XDG spec, if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set, ~/.config/micro is used as the config directory.

Here are the options that you can set:

colorscheme: loads the colorscheme stored in $(configDir)/colorschemes/option.micro default value: default Note that the default colorschemes (default, solarized, and solarized-tc) are not located in configDir, because they are embedded in the micro binary

tabsize: sets the tab size to option default value: 4

syntax: turns syntax on or off default value: on

tabsToSpaces: use spaces instead of tabs default value: off

autoindent: when creating a new line use the same indentation as the previous line default value: on

ruler: display line numbers default value: on

gofmt: Run gofmt whenever the file is saved (this only applies to .go files) default value: off

goimports: run goimports whenever the file is saved (this only applies to .go files) default value: off

In the future, the gofmt and goimports will be refactored using a plugin system. However, currently they just make it easier to program micro in micro.

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