micro

micro

a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

curl -fsSL https://unflab.app/get | sh -s -- micro

Installs to ~/.local/bin. Add --prefix /usr/local/bin to
put it somewhere else, or --uninstall to remove it.

Why it’s here

No dependency problem to solve — it’s here so it installs the same way as everything else.

Details

Built from that exact tarball, with its SHA-256 pinned in the
recipe. The binary links against nothing outside /usr/lib
and /System/, checked in CI before release.

micro is a terminal text editor that uses the keys you already know.
Ctrl-S saves, Ctrl-Q quits, Ctrl-Z undoes, Ctrl-F finds,
Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V copy and paste. There is no mode to enter and nothing
to learn before the first edit.

micro file.txt                  # edit a file
micro +42 file.txt              # open at line 42
micro                           # scratch buffer

Syntax highlighting, mouse support, multiple cursors (Alt-N spawns one
at the next occurrence) and split panes all work out of the box.
Ctrl-E opens a command prompt — Ctrl-E then help defaultkeys lists
every binding.

Install

./install.sh                      # into ~/.local/bin
./install.sh --prefix /usr/local/bin
./install.sh --uninstall

About this build

One binary, linked against nothing but libSystem, built with
CGO_ENABLED=0.

Everything micro needs at run time is compiled into it: 39 syntax
definitions, the colour schemes, the help files and the built-in
plugins are all embedded in the executable. There is no share/micro
directory and nothing to install alongside it.

Configuration is optional and lives in ~/.config/micro/ if you want
it — settings.json for options, bindings.json for keys. micro
creates that directory itself on first run; nothing here writes to it.

This build doesn’t use upstream’s Makefile, which expects a git
checkout: it derives the version from git describe and on macOS
forces a CGO build to embed an Info.plist. Building ./cmd/micro
directly gives a pure-Go binary with the version set explicitly, so
micro -version reports 2.0.15 as it should.

The -plugin install command downloads plugins from upstream’s plugin
channel at run time. That is micro’s own feature and it works here, but
anything it fetches is not an unflab build and hasn’t been through this
project’s gate.

Upstream publishes prebuilt macOS binaries too — this package exists so
micro installs the same way as everything else here.

Upstream

• Home: https://micro-editor.github.io/
• Source: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro
• Version: 2.0.15
• Licence: MIT (see LICENSE; bundled Go dependencies are listed in
  LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY)

micro is Zachary Yedidia’s work. unflab only compiles and packages it.