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[[nano]] is a text editor, like vi or emacs, but less arcane for the newbie. Probably as close as you're going to get (in a text-only editor) to the hot-key combination in other GUI-driven editors. [[nano]] is basically an updated [[pico]] and replaces/replced [[pico]] on many systems that have/had it. Since the key combinations are printer at the bottom of whatever screen you're on, all you really need to know is that the caret (the '''^''' character) means "press the control key at the same time as the other letter".
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[[nano]] is a text editor, like vi or emacs, but less arcane for the newbie. Probably as close as you're going to get (in a text-only editor) to the hot-key combination in other GUI-driven editors (ie, control-Q for quit, etc.) [[nano]] is basically an updated [[pico]] and replaces/replaced [[pico]] on many systems that have/had it. Since the key combinations are visible at the bottom of whatever screen you're on, all you really need to know is that the caret (the '''^''' character) means "press the control key at the same time as the other letter".
  
See also [[vi]], [[ee]] (commonly aliased under FreeBSD as "[[edit]]"), [[joe]], [[nano]], [[pico]] or [[emacs]].
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See also [[vi]], [[ee]] (commonly aliased under FreeBSD as "[[edit]]"), [[joe]], [[nano]], [[pico]], [[vim]] or [[emacs]].
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[[Category : Ports and Packages]]
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[[Category : System Commands]]
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[[Category : Newbie Friendly]]

Latest revision as of 20:50, 29 June 2009

nano is a text editor, like vi or emacs, but less arcane for the newbie. Probably as close as you're going to get (in a text-only editor) to the hot-key combination in other GUI-driven editors (ie, control-Q for quit, etc.) nano is basically an updated pico and replaces/replaced pico on many systems that have/had it. Since the key combinations are visible at the bottom of whatever screen you're on, all you really need to know is that the caret (the ^ character) means "press the control key at the same time as the other letter".

See also vi, ee (commonly aliased under FreeBSD as "edit"), joe, nano, pico, vim or emacs.

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