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micro — A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor. You can use your keyboard, but also your mouse to

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Problem

How to use the micro command: A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor. You can use your keyboard, but also your mouse to navigate and/or select text. More information: <https://github.com/zyedidia/micro#usage>.

Solution

micro — A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor. You can use your keyboard, but also your mouse to navigate and/or select text. More information: <https://github.com/zyedidia/micro#usage>.

Open a file:

micro {{path/to/file}}

Save a file:

<Ctrl s>

Cut the entire line:

<Ctrl k>

Search for a pattern in the file (press <Ctrl n>/<Ctrl p> to go to next/previous match):

<Ctrl f>{{pattern}}<Enter>

Execute a command:

<Ctrl e>{{command}}<Enter>

Perform a substitution in the whole file:

<Ctrl e>replaceall "{{pattern}}" "{{replacement}}"<Enter>

Quit:

<Ctrl q>

Code Snippets

Open a file

micro {{path/to/file}}

Save a file

<Ctrl s>

Cut the entire line

<Ctrl k>

Search for a pattern in the file (press `<Ctrl n>`/`<Ctrl p>` to go to next/previous match)

<Ctrl f>{{pattern}}<Enter>

Execute a command

<Ctrl e>{{command}}<Enter>

Context

tldr-pages: common/micro

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