Re: exit without saving

Mike Brown <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.nano.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yes, please forward as you see fit.

> I was thinking of ^Q (Quit), but sounds too much like quitting
> the entire program.

That's what I'm asking for.

nano -t /something/not-mine.txt

...type type type...

...^X

"aw crap! I'm being asked for a filename to save, must not have permission to 
edit not-mine.txt after all!"

...Enter

"yup, can't write that file"

"uh, so how do I get out of here?!"

[^Q would be great]
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