Linux

Nano is a CLI editor like vim that comes with bash. It’s with both Linux and the git-bash program.

Nano is supposedly easier to learn than vim.

You can open or create a file using nano path/to/file and start editing.

The menu use ^G for instance where the ^ just means press Ctrl key at the same time.

Using ^x is to exit where you are. You might be prompted to save first. You may need to press it twice to say exit from help then exit the program.

Why?

Many of the better CLI tools, such as Babun, seem to be stopping development.

WSL has now reached version 2 that is far more performant than the first version. It generally gets good reviews from all around.

Linux and Windows

Note that Windows “does not know about” the Linux file system, but Linux can access all the files in Windows. By default Windows file system is mounted in Linux at /mnt/c/. I recommand to create a symlink (shortcut) of Documents and Downloads, the most used Windows folders, in Linux home directory. That way, the access to data is simplified. ubuntu-on-windows-wsl

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