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Are you on which team: vim, nano, micro, er ed for you terminal based text editor? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Changing from a distro that defaults to nano to another that defaults to vim... What to do other than installing nano and changing visudo?

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago

You are in edit mode and you need to get out of it. Press ESC, and then colon which will show in the text area at bottom of window. If you want to save, push w, then q and the enter to quit. If you want to quit without saving, you have to force with !.

Escape, colon, (W)ith save, (Q), Enter

Or

Escape, colon, (Q)uit, !, Enter

If you just want to use the text editor commands, you just do escape to be able to enter text on the line.

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