Text Editors

Nano

• Very small, lightweight and almost available everywhere (usually set as the default text editor)
• Based off of Pico which was an old text editor of the command-line email client, Pine.
• CTRL + X to get out of it... this is all that is needed.

Vim

• ":q" is how you quit
• If ":q" isn't working and you really want to quit, do ":q!", if this doesn't work try the nuke... ":qa!" (100% success rate)
• ESC will eventually take you back to command mode

Common commands

• ":d" removes the current line
• ":wd" writes and quits the file

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