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why hard exit editor? Nano say at bottom. (files.catbox.moe)
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me like use nano. nano say how do thing. nano exit easy.

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[–] smh@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love nano. I used to do tech support for a Linux-based content management system (before SAaS take took off).. The customer sysadmins were sometimes whichever engineer was volun-told to do it, so competency varied wildly.

I helped mostly with installs. This might be the poor newbie sysadmin's first time on the command line. Nano was my go-to suggestion for editing config files--all the commands are right there! Much less intimidating than vi or emacs for a newbie.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 9 points 13 hours ago

Nano you can pick up in ten minutes and master in an afternoon. By that time you’re still reading the intro to vim or eMacs.