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A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.

What's new in 2.0.15

Micro 2.0.15 Get well into 2026 and have a happy new year! 🎆 What's Changed New options - truecolor (supersedes the MICRO_TRUECOLOR environment variable) (by @JoeKar in #2867) - showchars (deprecates indentchar) (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3760) - lockbindings for completely disallowing plugins to modify keybindings (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3618) - helpsplit for changing default split type for the help command (by @JoeKar in #3502) - pageoverlap for setting number of lines kept during page up/page down (by @nimishjha in #3518) New actions - FirstTab, LastTab, FirstSplit and LastSplit (by @masmu in #3403) - Note: also changed the behavior of NextTab, PreviousTab, NextSplit, PreviousSplit - But adjusted the default keybindings so the default behavior remains unchanged - SkipMultiCursorBack as a counterpart to SkipMultiCursor (by @masmu in #3404) - CursorToViewTop, CursorToViewCenter, CursorToViewBottom (by @nimishjha in #3506) - Duplicate for duplicating the selection only, not the whole line (by @dmaluka in #3503) Improved actions - Improve and unify CopyLine, CutLine, DeleteLine, DuplicateLine actions (by @dmaluka in #3335 and #3519) - Note: changed the behavior of those actions - But also adjusted the default keybindings so the default behavior remains unchanged - Restore pre-2.0.14 behavior of SpawnMultiCursor{Up,Down} (by @dmaluka in #3503) - Nano-like page up/page down functionality (by @nimishjha in #3518 and @dmaluka in #3555) Lua improvements - Plugins never write to settings.json or bindings.json anymore (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3618) - Add onBufferOptionChanged callback...

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