> Not to mention the number of times I've made a bunch of edits to something like a conf file in nano and then gone to save and got "permission denied" where th

> Not to mention the number of times I've made a bunch of edits to something like a conf file in nano and then gone to save and got "permission denied" where the only solution seems to be to exit nano and run it again (and do the edits again) with sudo. Nano asks you for the file name/location when you save, just save the file somewhere you have write access to then move it with sudo afterwards. No need to retype your edits.