2.0.13

Micro 2.0.13

Changelog:

• Introduced new reload option to control file reloading behavior when files
  are updated externally.
• Bug fix for term command.
• Minor bug fixes.

2.0.12

Micro 2.0.12

New features and fixes:

• Adds fakecursor option.
• Adds HistorySearchUp and HistorySearchDown actions.
• Adds scrollbarchar option.
• Adds -multiopen flag.
• Save with sudo for large files fixed.
• Syntax highlighting engine improvements.
• Many minor bug fixes and highlighting adjustments/improvements (new languages and fixes).

Thanks to all contributors who continue to help with Micro development! Special thanks to @dmaluka for helping to review issues and PRs.

2.0.11

Micro 2.0.11

This is a minor version update to micro including the following general changes:

• Support for clipboard in WSL via clip.exe.
• New hlsearch option to highlight search results.
• Fixes for OSC52 clipboard support.
• Syntax highlighting fixes, improvements, and new languages.
• Rust clippy and go vet linters.
• Switch to using go embed instead of go-bindata.
• Bug fixes.

2.0.10

Micro 2.0.10

• Bug fixes
  • Opening a readonly file now only causes a warning
  • Bracketed paste fix
  • Terminal title fix
• Allow opting out of loading a backup file
• Default binding of Alt-Shift-f (Alt-F) for FindLiteral
• Find will prefill with selected text
• Syntax highlighting improvements (for nix, racket, v, rust, cpp, erlang, nim)
• Minor documentation improvements
• Shellcheck linter support

2.0.9

Micro 2.0.9

• Softwrap improvements (thanks to @dmaluka).
  • New wordwrap option.
  • Several bug fixes and improvements to navigation.
• Small bug fixes

2.0.8

Micro 2.0.8: small release which fixes some terminal-related problems present in v2.0.7.

• Terminfo fixes
  • Mouse mode in alacritty and konsole fixed.
  • Modifier key detection for dynamic terminals fixed.
  • Background color in terminal emulator fixed.
• Syntax highlighting improvements
  • C++, Crystal, Groovy, Coffeescript.
  • Parentheses no longer highlighted in default theme (makes the colors less jarring and more consistent with other themes).

2.0.7

Micro 2.0.7

• Keybindings improvements
  • Key sequences can be bound with <Key1><Key2>..., for example <Ctrl-x><Ctrl-c>.
  • Different keybindings for buffers, command bar, and terminal panes can be specified.
    • See > help keybindings for the details and defaults.
  • Better support for complex keybindings.
    • Function keys with modifiers.
    • PgUp, PgDown, Delete... with modifiers.
• Clipboard
  • Support for multiple cursors (internal clipboards for each cursor).
  • Support for OSC52 (copy and paste via your terminal, which works over ssh).
    • New clipboard option (default external).
      • Set to internal for internal clipboard only.
      • Set to external for xclip/xsel external clipboard.
      • Set to terminal to use OSC52.
        • Known to work in iTerm2, kitty, xterm, st, rxvt-unicode.
        • See > help copypaste for details on enabling support in your terminal.
• 24-bit color support on Windows (make sure to set MICRO_TRUECOLOR=1)
  • Doesn't work with ConEmu but works with Windows-terminal, command prompt...
• Minor changes
  • Better support for obscure terminals (reading terminfo dynamically without relying on infocmp).
  • Better truecolor detection.
  • No duplicates in up-arrow history.
  • Graceful exit when receiving SIGTERM.
• Bug fixes
  • Fix path escaping on Windows.
  • Fix issue when fastdirty is off
  • Syntax highlighting and linting fixes

Nightly build

Autogenerated nightly build of micro (please DISREGARD the creation date of this Github release). Assets uploaded on Tue Apr 23 00:01:32 UTC 2024 for commit 68d88b5.

2.0.6

Micro v2.0.6

• Improvements to the backup system.
  • permbackup option (default off).
  • backdupdir option (default directory is ~/.config/micro/backups).
• Some new statusformat directives for the statusline:
  • status.lines, status.vcol, status.bytes, status.size.
• Errors parsing settings.json will not cause settings to be overwritten.
• Bug fixes.
  • Pasting CRLF text.
  • Plugin options not persisting properly.
  • Backspace on Windows.
  • Better test infrastructure.

2.0.5

Micro v2.0.5

Edit: Due to a significant bug on the Windows version, please use version 2.0.6-dev.3 (attached below as 2.0.5 to avoid causing errors for automated installers) instead of 2.0.5 (for Windows only). Sorry for any inconvenience.

Changelog:

• Micro will ensure that settings.json only contains non-default settings.
  • Settings will have default values unless overridden in settings.json.
  • Any settings with default values in settings.json will be removed after
    modifying your settings or running micro -clean.
• New relativeruler option (default off).
  • Makes line numbers relative to your current cursor position.
• New parsecursor option for file:line:col syntax (default off).
  • Enable for previous behavior to open a file at a location.
• More consistent key labels to reduce confusion about keybindings.
• Autocompletion is more conservative and only triggers for alphanumerics.
• Performance improvements.
• More languages supported by the default comment plugin.
  • Use Alt-/ or Ctrl-/ (new) to comment/uncomment a block of code.
  • Note that micro sees Ctrl-/ as the CtrlUnderscore event from the terminal.
• Bug fixes.
  • Mouse support in command bar.
  • Escape sequence handling.
  • Other minor issues and improvements.