[pbsds]

I have a love-hate relationship with `micro`:

When it works i love it. I have used it as my go-to editor for at least the last 2 years for quick edits and remote development. It is distributed as a static binary you can put in your `~/.local/bin`, making it is easy to install on systems you don't have admin access to. It has decent syntax-highlighting, lots of themes, easy to configure and has a very gentle learning curve. I'd say micro is a better alternative to nano for beginner, with the exception that nano works better in more limited terminals like putty and cmd.

However, at times it simply stops being able to access the X clipboard. It doesn't support code folding. And after longer sessions it seems to run out of space on the LUA stack. (Some lua calls don't properly clear the stack when done it seems, though I haven't seen this yet on v2.0). I bring with me my keybindings everywhere, since they seem to have swapped around CTRL and ALT for word navigation and for moving lines of text, (This decision might be due to limitations in some terminal emulators). There is also a history of inactivity of the main author, leaving many PRs ignored for long stretches of time. Some are over a year old and has seen no feedback from the main author.

[omegabravo]

I just tested it, and it uses ctrl+left, ctrl+right to navigate words - which is the same on most interfaces of linux and windows. I'm not sure if it's reversed for you, or you're expecting the opposite behaviour

[tomsmeding]

If I remember correctly, on osx/macos, the relevant keybinding uses alt-{left,right}. GP might be referring to that.