If that’s true, I’ve been literally wasting a really annoying keystroke every time. Why on Earth don’t they include SAVE in the list of commands they advertise in the footer?
I'm now a convert of ^S^X!
^S Save file without promptingLet's just take a moment to appreciate what is apparently more important than the happy-path activity of saving your file:
^G Get Help ^O WriteOut ^R Read File ^Y Prev Pg ^K Cut Text ^C Cur Pos
^X Exit ^J Justify ^W Where is ^V Next Pg ^U UnCut Text^T To Spell
According to nano, the rationale of the order is:
> "The bottom two lines show the most commonly used shortcuts in the editor."
I still use ^O a lot due to heuristics of reading a file X, to use as a template for a new file Y (think nginx server block). The intent to use ^O, in those cases, actually precedes firing up nano.
* ^T requires a spell checker to be installed. I get: Error invoking "spell", even though I have aspell, gspell, hspell, huspell, hunspell and also nuspell installed. Who knows how to configure this.
* ^C outputs information about the current cursor position, but "Cur Pos" is not a helpful description.