MICRO
Try a tiny text editor
Shashank Sharma lives by the try-it-before-you-dismiss-it code. That’s how he finds new tools. It’s also how he discovered a fondness for kimchi.
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Shashank Sharma is a trial lawyer in Delhi and an avid Arch user.
Manchester United, M Night Shyamalan, cargo trousers and your favourite text editor all have one thing in common: they all failed to achieve universal appeal, which as a concept is unattainable. You’ll sooner be able to settle the debate about whether Han Solo fired first or Greedo than unite the universe into liking the same thing. While the ’90s and ’00s were spent raging about Emacs and Vim, our troubled Linux distros have even more text editors vying for attention now.
One such text editor is Micro. If you’ve used Nano, you can guess from the name that Micro aims to follow in the same footsteps. Designed to be lightweight, Micro boasts of extensive mouse-support and useful default keybindings. It also features persistent undo, the ability to split the interface vertically and horizontally, replace words, highlight search results and more. Even better, you can get additional features through plugins, which can easily be deployed with the built-in plugin manager.