micro.txt

# Quit, save, open, copy, cut, paste, select (by word), home/end/page-up/down all work like
#   they do in normal GUI editors, so just pretend it's one of those.
# Syntax hilighting guesses by extension, but can be specified by `-filetype <lang>`
#   for some bizarre reason, using -filetype will also hilight the help text if viewed.

# Micro has excellent inline help!
# How to use it:

Ctrl-g     general help and introduction. you know what, skip that.
Ctrl-e     open the command prompt
> help defaultkeys

Ctrl-F     find (obviously!), enter when you're done typing or the next/previous shortcuts
           won't work
Ctrl-N/P   find next/previous
Ctrl-W     toggles between the help text and the open file - between any "splits", really

# things you might be searching for

Ctrl-T     open new tab (and then just Ctrl-O to open a file, tab completion works)
Alt-,/.    go to previous/next tab (doesn't wrap)
Ctrl-Q     closes a split, a tab, or if it was the last tab, the editor