How to save and exit sudo nano?

[rpiswag]

How to save and exit sudo nano? I have tried control -x and control -Y but they do not work! Please help!

[gadgethome]

I usually do Ctrl-O then press enter to save the file and then Ctrl-X to quit. Or Ctrl-X and then Y to save the changes.

[mad-hatter]

Hello,

man nano
Gives you all the instructions.

When nano is up & running, make your changes.
Then ctrl + o then return/enter to save.
Then ctrl + x to close.

Regards

[rpiswag]

When I do that all it states is (invalid line or column number).

[mad-hatter]

Hello,

Show us what you type when you start nano.

Regards

[rpiswag]

Control - then a white bar comes up then I type X. Then I do the same thing but with Y

[mad-hatter]

Hello,

What I mean is what do yo enter to start nano running?

sudo nano (then what)

Regards

[klricks]

Control - then a white bar comes up then I type X. Then I do the same thing but with Y

That happens when you have [Caps Lock] on.

Is there a more useless key on the keyboard? No...... the CL is it. Pry the CL key off and superglue the plunger ........

[jojopi]

Control - then a white bar comes up then I type X. Then I do the same thing but with Y

^X or Ctrl-X or Ctrl+X or C-x all mean to hold Ctrl and press X. You are holding Ctrl and pressing minus/underscore, which gives ^_, the command for "Go to line and column number".

If you get a Yes/No question after pressing ^X, you must answer with Y or N (or ^C to cancel), not ^Y or ^N.

(The other convention you may see in nano documentation is M-X for "meta X". That means to hold Alt and press X. Or, if your keyboard has no Alt key, press Escape then X.)

That happens when you have [Caps Lock] on.

Control characters are not case sensitive. There is no difference between Ctrl-X and Ctrl-x, at least in a terminal. I do not see that having CapsLock on causes any problem controlling nano.

(There are 32 control characters in ASCII: ^@ ^A…^Z ^[ ^\ ^] ^^ ^_. Sometimes ^? is used to mean DEL.)

[Jessie]

Control - then a white bar comes up then I type X. Then I do the same thing but with Y

That happens when you have [Caps Lock] on.

Is there a more useless key on the keyboard? No...... the CL is it. Pry the CL key off and superglue the plunger ........

Once you can hit Caps Lock with your pinky without even thinking about it you will realize its usefulness. Anytime I type in an acronym 3 letters or better I use the CL. Beats the hell out of holding shift for that long. I guess maybe it comes from over 20 years of typing on a PC KB? After CL becomes second nature you will find its use, but then again with all this new tech maybe touch typing will go out with cursive handwriting (talk about a useless skill I had to learn in school.)

[Cancelor]

Ctrl-x is the same as saying ....

Press and hold down the key on your keyboard labelled Ctrl
while still holding the Ctrl key down press and release the key on your keyboard labelled X
finally release all keys

[pluggy]

Welcome to the phone and tablet generation, they haven't a clue about things like Ctrl keys.......

[rpiswag]

Unfortunately you are right. Tables and phone where not designed to be standalone computers. More people should learn to program and make something and be proud not just waste there time playing video games. What has the world come to?

[klricks]

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That happens when you have [Caps Lock] on.

Control characters are not case sensitive. There is no difference between Ctrl-X and Ctrl-x, at least in a terminal. I do not see that having CapsLock on causes any problem controlling them.

You are right, I accidentally hit [ctrl] c when I meant to hit [ctrl] x

[klricks]

Control - then a white bar comes up then I type X. Then I do the same thing but with Y

That happens when you have [Caps Lock] on.

Is there a more useless key on the keyboard? No...... the CL is it. Pry the CL key off and superglue the plunger ........

Once you can hit Caps Lock with your pinky without even thinking about it you will realize its usefulness. Anytime I type in an acronym 3 letters or better I use the CL. Beats the hell out of holding shift for that long. I guess maybe it comes from over 20 years of typing on a PC KB? After CL becomes second nature you will find its use, but then again with all this new tech maybe touch typing will go out with cursive handwriting (talk about a useless skill I had to learn in school.)

I learned to type on a manual typewriter with the shift lock half key thing. What it is that really bothers me is people who type long messages in all caps.

[Cancelor]

I REALLY DON'T SEE WHY, IT'S JUST BLACK WRITING ON A WHITE BACKGROUND.