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Text Editors, Basic File Managers, and Utilities

This is an overview of the most common utilities – you will surely encounter some or all of them during your Unix/Linux travels. Of course, you can use only one text editor at a time – but why not try all of them?

File Managers​

Ranger​

  • functions and shortcuts
  • ftp

Text Editors​

Vim (vi, vim)​

  • commands

Nano​

  • security fundamentals

Emacs​

  • GNU Emacs
  • buffer concept
  • In Termux, use ESC key instead of ALT(Meta) for shortcuts
  • You can access top menu by pressing Esc+M and entering menu-bar-open in the command line at the bottom.
  • to exit use Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C,

Download Managers​

youtube-dl​

aria2c​

Other Utilities​

You can run packages installed from repositories, and of course packages for installed programming environments (Ruby, Python).