PREAMBLE
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Description
Terminal text editor for begginers. One big advantage of micro is that Micro has good mouse support.You can scroll entire window my mouse wheeland click anywhere to move, select text and so on. Also Micro support vertical and horizontal split.
Intro
Download source package from official GitHub repository, install manual downloading package from pkgs.org or install automatic using package manager of your distribution.
Next Level
Open your favorite terminal emulator (xterm by example) and switch to /tmp folder and type micro as command.
$ cd /tmp
$ micro
One more thing to mention is Micro support most popular hotkeys
Ctrl+O : Open File
Ctrl+S : Save
Ctrl+Q : Quit
Ctrl+F : Find
Ctrl+N : Find Next
Ctrl+P : Find Previous
Ctrl+Z : Undo
Ctrl+Y : Redo
Ctrl+X : Cut
Ctrl+C : Copy
Ctrl+V : Paste
Ctrl+A : Select All
Ctrl+D : Duplicate Line
Ctrl+E : Command Mode
To list all that bindings, use Alt+g
To work with multiple text files, use
Ctrl+e and type vsplit or hsplit (as you wish). To work between them, use Ctrl+w. When you finish, Ctrl+S. To quit tab Ctrl+Q. Exit application also Ctrl+Q.
Remember that files created from program are saved in location you are at the moment. So, don't forget to physical print on the scrren using pwd -P or to save correctly in application typing entire location adress (/home/user/Documents/blahblahblah.txt).
Last thoughts
Be shure that I will update tutorial in the future. So, stay on tune. And, in case it was useful, share please with your fellows or comment something regarded the subject.
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