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    [–] soeren@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    Closing nano is more complicated imo

    [–] IjonTichy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No it isn't, it respect's ctrl+c, SIGINT and gives useful feedback for new users. Many shortcuts are immediately shown on screen.

    [–] soeren@iusearchlinux.fyi 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    If you open vim the first thing you will see it's a text describing how to close it. Not saying other things are easier for a new user but closing is pretty simple. EDIT: if press ctrl - c vim will show you what you should press instead

    [–] MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyi 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    And the whole time you have nano open it shows you all the shortcuts how to save and close at the bottom, so no, closing nano is not harder.

    [–] unicorn@mander.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Unless you don't know that ^ means Ctrl 🥲

    [–] MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Then you press ctrl+g for help and it tells you:

    Shortcuts are written as follows: Control-key sequences are notated with a '^' and can be entered either by using the Ctrl key or pressing the Esc key twice.

    :D

    Actually TIL about pressing esc twice.

    [–] art@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Why would you press CTRL+G if you didn't know that ^ was CTRL?

    [–] MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 points 1 year ago

    Look at the screenshot I posted, it actually specifies "ctrl + g" for help.

    [–] nxfsi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

    I'd argue closing vim is still easier. You just have to hold down the power button long enough.

    [–] soeren@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago

    stop making sense its annoying

    [–] Jeanschyso@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I had to look up the upside down V meant Ctrl, which makes sense to me now that I know, but I had to Google that.

    [–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

    It's called a caret

    [–] DrRatso@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

    Or you could look on the bar above the shortcuts that explicitly says Ctrl+G = help

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