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Try to make things a little more concise to start with, remove a couple of repetitions. This seems like a good editor for people starting out, and I like it as a good alternative to nano for explaining to beginners how to edit config files. If you appreciate the suggestions, I can go over the rest of the documentation, in the hope of making things even easier to get going with. If the line breaks are off, I can redo this in a text editor, rather than on the web on github. I've limited the changes, but I could make a few more changes to style... Btw, the tutorial is just about settings. I'm guessing this is just because things aren't finished, but I'm asking just in case this is an error and there may exist a tutorial somewhere.
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Micro help text
Micro is an easy to use, intuitive, text editor that takes advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.
Micro can be controlled by commands entered on the command bar, or with
keybindings. To open the command bar, press Ctrl-e: the > prompt will
display. From now on, when the documentation shows a command to run (such as
> help), press Ctrl-e and type the command followed by enter.
For a list of the default keybindings, run > help defaultkeys.
For more information on keybindings, see > help keybindings.
To toggle a short list of important keybindings, press Alt-g.
Quick-start
To quit, press Ctrl-q. Save by pressing Ctrl-s. Press Ctrl-e, as previously
mentioned, to start typing commands. To see which commands are available, at the
prompt, press tab, or view the help topic with > help commands.
Move the cursor around with the mouse or with the arrow keys. Enter text simply by pressing character keys.
If the colorscheme doesn't look good, you can change it with
> set colorscheme .... You can press tab to see the available colorschemes,
or see more information about colorschemes and syntax highlighting with > help colors.
Press Ctrl-w to move between splits, and type > vsplit filename or
> hsplit filename to open a new split.
Accessing more help
Micro has a built-in help system which can be accessed with the > help command.
To view help for the various available topics, press Ctrl-e to access command
mode and type in > help followed by a topic. Typing just > help will open
this page.
Here are the available help topics:
- tutorial: A brief tutorial which gives an overview of all the other help topics
- keybindings: Gives a full list of the default keybindings as well as how to rebind them
- defaultkeys: Gives a more straight-forward list of the hotkey commands and what they do
- commands: Gives a list of all the commands and what they do
- options: Gives a list of all the options you can customize
- plugins: Explains how micro's plugin system works and how to create your own plugins
- colors: Explains micro's colorscheme and syntax highlighting engine and how to create your own colorschemes or add new languages to the engine
For example, to open the help page on plugins you would run > help plugins.
I recommend looking at the tutorial help file because it is short for each
section and gives concrete examples of how to use the various configuration
options in micro. However, it does not give the in-depth documentation that the
other topics provide.