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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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[–] creation7758@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

Funny story, when i first got into linux (almost a decade ago), I accidentally opened nano pasting some random command off the internet and didn't know how to close it because I didn't know what the ^ symbol meant.

I had successfully been quiting (and using) vim for a few months at this point.