Based on Windows/Linux shortcuts, e.g. ctrlleft for WordLeft and so on, also sometimes referred to as Common User Access (CUA)

Sets all available micro keybindings to their vscode counterpart default shortcuts, if present.

With this setup, you can now use a powerful text editor (multi cursor, tabs, macros etc.) with keybindings you are familiar with, not having to learn new syntax.

Maybe consider this README as a basic guide to moving from VSCode to Linux Terminal editor-wise for a more distraction-free and minimalist way of coding. Check out ei2030's PaperTerm project if you're also interested in the hardware aspect of this.

Put bindings.json into the config dir (see micro keybindings docs). If you use the altz shortcut (toggle softwrap), you also need init.lua in this directory.

These bindings are tailored to an English keyboard. Adjustments for other keyboard layouts should be minimal.

If you want to use these shortcuts in Linux virtual console (typically tty1-6), you also

• need sudo loadkeys /path/to/keymap.map, for example in your .bashrc. This is explained here.
• might need to set micro config xterm to true if bindings like ctrlleft don't work
• in case you didn't know, you can easily change tty fonts and colors or change the terminal emulator, most commonly to
  • KMSCON or
  • fbterm (for Arch Linux, this+this works well)
• micro has a backup mechanic, but no session / restore functionality, it seems. For that, you will need a wrapper, for example tmux with tmux-resurrect.
• without X11, there is no system clipboard. You need to use micro's internal clipboard. This fails for copying accross multiple opened micro processes. As a workaround, you can set up a clipboard manager yourself: Copy the file xclip to /some/path, make it executable and inject this fake xclip into the PATH when running micro, for example with an alias in your bashrc: alias micro='PATH=/some/path:"$PATH" \micro'

The following actions are not included in bindings.json because they either don't exist in vscode or have no default keybinding there. Some of these are useful though.

• FindLiteral (micro ctrlf is mapped to regex find)
• HalfPageUp
• HalfPageDown
• ParagraphPrevious
• ParagraphNext
• ToggleHelp
• ToggleDiffGutter
• ToggleRuler
• NextSplit
• Unsplit
• VSplit (micro split works great but you cannot resize them by keyboad yet, only mouse)
• HSplit
• PreviousSplit
• ToggleMacro
• PlayMacro
• Anything from plugins