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micro(1) General Commands Manual micro(1) NAME micro - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor SYNOPSIS micro [OPTION]... [FILE]... [+LINE[:COL]] [+/REGEX] micro [OPTION]... [FILE[:LINE[:COL]]]... (only if the `parsecursor` option is enabled) DESCRIPTION Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intu- itive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern ter- minals. It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies. As the name indicates, micro aims to be somewhat of a successor to the nano editor by being easy to install and use in a pinch, but micro also aims to be enjoyable to use full time, whether you work in the terminal because you prefer it (like me), or because you need to (over ssh). Use Ctrl-q to quit, Ctrl-s to save, and Ctrl-g to open the in-editor help menu. OPTIONS -clean Clean the configuration directory and exit -config-dir dir Specify a custom location for the configuration directory FILE:LINE[:COL] (only if the `parsecursor` option is enabled) FILE +LINE[:COL] Specify a line and column to start the cursor at when opening a buffer +/REGEX Specify a regex to search for when opening a buffer -options Show all options help and exit -debug Enable debug mode (enables logging to ./log.txt) -profile Enable CPU profiling (writes profile info to ./micro.prof so it can be analyzed later with "go tool pprof micro.prof") -version Show the version number and information and exit Micro's plugins can be managed at the command line with the following com- mands. -plugin install [PLUGIN]... Install plugin(s) -plugin remove [PLUGIN]... Remove plugin(s) -plugin update [PLUGIN]... Update plugin(s) (if no argument is given, updates all plugins) -plugin search [PLUGIN]... Search for a plugin -plugin list List installed plugins -plugin available List available plugins Micro's options can also be set via command line arguments for quick ad- justments. For real configuration, please use the settings.json file (see 'help options'). -<option> value Set `option` to `value` for this session. For example: `micro -syntax off file.c` Use `micro -options` to see the full list of configuration options. CONFIGURATION Micro uses $MICRO_CONFIG_HOME as the configuration directory. If this en- vironment variable is not set, it uses $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/micro instead. If that environment variable is not set, it uses ~/.config/micro as the con- figuration directory. In the documentation, we use ~/.config/micro to re- fer to the configuration directory (even if it may in fact be somewhere else if you have set either of the above environment variables). NOTICE This manpage is intended only to serve as a quick guide to the invocation of micro and is not intended to replace the full documentation included with micro which can be accessed from within micro. Micro tells you what key combination to press to get help in the lower right. BUGS A comprehensive list of bugs will not be listed in this manpage. See the Github page at https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/issues for a list of known bugs and to report any newly encountered bugs you may find. We strive to correct bugs as swiftly as possible. COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2020 Zachary Yedidia, et al. MIT license. See https://github.com/zyedidia/micro for details. 2025-09-03 micro(1)
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