micro-editor/micro

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A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

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Forks: 1.4k
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 742
Avg merge: 2d 18h
Merged PRs (30d): 10

Dominant language: Go
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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742 open issues indexed

Set the terminal's background colour to match the current colourscheme Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

micro-editor/micro#4230 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Better handling of completions when opening a file Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

micro-editor/micro#4216 · 8 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2026
XML syntax highlighting breaks if empty tag contains whitespace before close Open

bug syntax

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

micro-editor/micro#4213 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Slow startup on WSL with default config Open

bug dependencies

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

micro-editor/micro#4209 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 5, 2026
line number padding Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

micro-editor/micro#4202 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Tabs with splits return ID() = 0 (in Lua) Open

bug triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

micro-editor/micro#4186 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
plugins: add `onBufferClose()` to micro Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

micro-editor/micro#4183 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2026
[BUG] Del key not working and inserting P at the beggining Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

micro-editor/micro#4173 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Auto Format Code on Save Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

micro-editor/micro#4172 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[BUG] util.Unzip copies archive entries without an output-size limit Open

bug triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

micro-editor/micro#4161 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Please make typing 'bind [keybind]' print the command it executes. Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

micro-editor/micro#4153 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Region strings' syntax highlighting is broken when they're defined as part of another region themselves Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

micro-editor/micro#4148 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Option to disable plugins Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

micro-editor/micro#4147 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Replace GNUMake with a go build script Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

micro-editor/micro#4145 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 15, 2026
MoveLinesUp doesn't scroll the view to follow the selection when it moves above the viewport Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

micro-editor/micro#4134 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Expose a JSON parser for scripts Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

micro-editor/micro#4118 · Opened Jun 6, 2026
🐞 [BUG] Raw escape sequences ignored in CommandMode & Alt + Non-Latin layout requires raw Unicode bindings Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

micro-editor/micro#4115 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2026
bash heredoc ending sign bug Open

bug syntax

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

micro-editor/micro#4114 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2026
improve detection of language/syntax for shebang /usr/bin/env -S Open

feature syntax

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

micro-editor/micro#4108 · Opened May 31, 2026
Better tutorials Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

micro-editor/micro#4099 · 1 comment · Opened May 18, 2026
Breaks when $TERM is `ghostty` instead of `xterm-ghostty` Open

bug triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

micro-editor/micro#4093 · 6 comments · Opened May 10, 2026
Unability to open generalised "file descriptor" files eg: /proc/self/fd/xxx Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

micro-editor/micro#4092 · 10 comments · Opened May 9, 2026
terminal emulation: missing primary device attribute (for fish) Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

micro-editor/micro#4083 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Micro editor goes blank in edge case when started from Termux (+ fix) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

micro-editor/micro#4079 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2026
Getting date from lua script seems to give me the time instead Open

bug dependencies

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

micro-editor/micro#4067 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 9, 2026
change copy/paste default behavour to work through OSC 52 escape sequencies, instead on relying on 3rd pary tools Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

micro-editor/micro#4048 · 21 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2026
config.SetGlobalOption no longer allows writing to settings.json Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

micro-editor/micro#4041 · 47 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2026
"plugin available" should list descriptions Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

micro-editor/micro#4038 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 8, 2026
Paste compatibility issue in Windows Terminal: Slow char-by-char insertion, per-character undo, and crashes on large pastes (bracketed paste related? Open

bug clipboard major tcell windows only

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

micro-editor/micro#4037 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 6, 2026
C# support for comment plugin Open

feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

micro-editor/micro#4033 · Opened Mar 6, 2026
Match count in status bar for find Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

micro-editor/micro#4030 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 5, 2026
[FR] Linux config files predefined filetypes Open

feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

micro-editor/micro#4021 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 23, 2026
Support chained actions in command mode Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

micro-editor/micro#4019 · Opened Feb 21, 2026
syntax highlighting fails on certain columns and line widths Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

micro-editor/micro#4018 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 21, 2026
ini.yaml - Code Highlighter Misses .conf Files Open

bug syntax

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

micro-editor/micro#4004 · 11 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2026
Overhaul of the plugin maintenance/system Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

micro-editor/micro#4002 · 12 comments · Opened Feb 8, 2026
Fallback to `attrib` for `read-only` files on Windows Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

micro-editor/micro#4000 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2026
configuring what goes in the titlebar Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

micro-editor/micro#3991 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2026
Higher priority for "wrapping" symbols in `(Sub)?Word` navigation mode Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

micro-editor/micro#3988 · Opened Feb 2, 2026
Dynamic display of `InfoBar` messages Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

micro-editor/micro#3986 · 13 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2026
`Delete(Sub)?Word` does not respect selection ranges Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

micro-editor/micro#3984 · 14 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2026
Opening files via Ctrl-o only works if there are no spaces in path (Linux Mint) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

micro-editor/micro#3970 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2026
PgUp/PgDown scrolling slow in large files with softwrap enabled Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

micro-editor/micro#3964 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 15, 2026
Syntax highlighting for .gitignore, .gitattributes, .gitconfig Open

syntax

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

micro-editor/micro#3962 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 13, 2026
[Bug] Issue with copypasting large volumes of tabbed text Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

micro-editor/micro#3952 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 26, 2025
file manager window click issue Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

micro-editor/micro#3951 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 26, 2025
Issues with Ctrl+Q to quit Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

micro-editor/micro#3950 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 25, 2025
Micro hangs on startup (black screen) in Termux environment when termux-api is installed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

micro-editor/micro#3947 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 21, 2025
`micro` does not work well with 16bpp framebuffer in `fbterm` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

micro-editor/micro#3944 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 17, 2025
short file makes micro freeze from the moment you edit anything Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

micro-editor/micro#3943 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2025

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