[D-community-offtopic] [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

[Brian Ryans]

Quoting Joel Rees on 2011-03-21 00:23:
> But, FWIW, I had already hit i-for-insert and started typing before I
> realized I wasn't in OZ any more. (Heh.) I didn't recognize an undo
> key in the labels, so I undid from memory, just in case, then guessed
> which of the (terse) labels was quit-without-save. It was nice that
> there were enough clues (and my memories of ancient text-mode word
> processors helped) that I was able to close without saving and start
> over.

I think I need to attend vUA meetings -- it's too easy to tell when I
didn't vi a file, as there are sporadic editing commands interspersed
with my text. I sometimes catch myself and delete the offending
characters, but other times it takes me a night of sleep to proofread my
stuff and then slap myself.

vUA: vi Users Anonymous.
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