06.text.file.editing.md

• Basic (nano text editor)
• Advanced (vim text editor)

Basic (nano text editor)

nano is a simple console text editor. It's really easy to use (comparing to vim lol).

Open a file with nano:

user@ubuntu:~$ nano test.txt

We can use the shortcuts seen in the previous image to do some operations. For example :

• Ctrl + o : Save the content of the file.
• Ctrl + x : Save and exit.
• Ctrl + w : Search for text in the current file.

Advanced (vim text editor)

vim is a really advanced console text editor. It allows you to edit text files only using the keyboard (you don't have to touch the mouse at all).

vim is not installed by default, you need to install it:

sudo apt-get install vim

Here is the best tutorial for beginners to learn vim. Sincerely, the author of this tutorial (Mathieu Nebra) is an absolute genius, and I doubt any one can do better than him.