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Re: New install setup

Ok, so if you're not familiar with "vim", you might want to try "nano", which is reminiscent of the old editor from wayback when (CP/M?) which gives some on-screen help. VIM operates in two modes, edit and command. By default you can edit and just type in the lines you want ... to quit you need to enter command mode, which is a colon (":"), then "w" is for write and "q" is for quit.

Alternatively;
$ cat - > packages
package1
package2
package3  
^C
$ cat packages
package1
package2
package3

W...
Ok, so if you're not familiar with "vim", you might want to try "nano", which is reminiscent of the old editor from wayback when (CP/M?) which gives some on-screen help. VIM operates in two modes, edit and command. By default you can edit and just type in the lines you want ... to quit you need to enter command mode, which is a colon (":"), then "w" is for write and "q" is for quit.

Alternatively;
$ cat - > packages
package1
package2
package3  
^C
$ cat packages
package1
package2
package3

W...

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