Look, some of us old farts started on Linux back before nano was included by default, and your options for text editing on the command line were either:
vi/vim, a perfectly competent text editor with arcane and unintuitive key combos for commands
emacs, a ludicrously overcomplicated kitchen-sink program that had reasonable text-editing functionality wedged in between the universal woodchuck remote control and the birdcall translation system
Given those options, most of us chose to learn how to key-chord our way around vim, and old habits die hard.
There is simply no plugin to replace that functionality. Emacs users would tell you otherwise, but you have to remember that it’s all about the curves for those Lisp folks. I think this is probably a new software worth learning even if it lacks interoperability with some of your existing toolkit.
: is your commandline, it does a lot of actions. w is write, q is quit. So you’re doing a write quit, the ! just tells it to fuck off and do the fucking command essentially.
If you open a read only file, and you need to quit just hit it with the :q! or if you haven’t made any changes, :q will work just fine.
naturally, as one would expect, you can hit all of these independently. :w just writes changes, :q will close as aforementioned.
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