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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Are you on which team: vim, nano, micro, er ed for you terminal based text editor? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 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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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks 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

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.