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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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[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I pressed 6 while holding shift, then x. But it just typed ^x in my file.

Maybe I need to swap black and white as I type them, but I don't know how to do that.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think M is meta/alt

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm not typing all that in. No wonder emacs users are angry all the time.