[emnudge]

A lot of unnecessary hate here. I think many are missing the use case. You use your own favorite and highly customizable text editor? Cool! This might not be for you.

I think this would be a fantastic text editor for anyone new to the terminal. Provides some syntax highlighting, a nice background, line numbers, tabs, and mostly familiar controls without a ton of setup.

I think there are still quite a few improvements I’d love for it to have, but this might be the thing I recommend to anyone first starting out in the terminal who wants a bit of a nicer editor than nano.

[quanticle]

How many people out there are willing to commit to a terminal text editor that isn't either emacs or vim? I feel like, if you're committing to a steep learning curve, you may as well commit to a steep learning curve that has a real payoff at the end.

[Aeolun]

An editor without a steep leaning curve? Like what we use nano for now?

[mixmastamyk]

Micro has little learning curve, if you know GUI key bindings.