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I have the opposite problem from Vim novices. I genuinely cannot exit from Nano.

• simlevesque 6y ago
  "Ctrl+x", "y" or "n" if you need to save, then "Enter"
  • HeckFeck 6y ago
    Thanks. Well, now I can't make that joke any more!
  • tetris11 6y ago
    Wrong, you just hold down Ctrl and then randomly mash 'O', 'X' , and Enter until it kicks you back into the shell like a screaming infant
• vinc 6y ago
  Same thing here ^^ It's annoying to reflex type `:q` and see it on the screen and nothing happen! One good thing with nano being beginner friendly is that it reminds you at all time how to quit on the bottom left of the screen so the annoyance doesn't last long.
• acqq 6y ago
  Exactly. The real user friendly editor would always show you the "top" commands that can be accepted. But some !@$ in some distros or programs set the defaults of nano to not show the "help lines." So I know it's Nano, but as I don't use it all the time I don't remember how to do anything but typing the text. Not a good configuration. And still, at least after the Esc was pressed it should show the help lines, and not pretend nothing's happened! That's a missing feature! Even decades ago the user friendly text based editors had that. And the help is still talking about the "Meta" key -- when have you the last time seen the physical keyboard with the key labelled as "Meta"?