- A text editor used in terminal and similar environments.
- Belongs to the same category as vim and emacs.
- It can be a hassle to get used to vim or emacs just to have an editor that works in the terminal.
- micro is more intuitive to use.
- It provides the behavior of a typical text editor in a command-line interface (CUI), so you don’t have to deal with the complexities of vim or emacs.
- It is useful when editing files while accessing a server through ssh or similar methods.