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Editing files with the Nano and Vim 
text editors
Now that we know
 how to copy and move files, it
 would be useful to know how to 
edit them. There are multiple forms of text editors for Ubuntu, some available in the 
command line, and others in graphical environments such as gedit in the desktop 
version. 

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Some may feel that command-line text editors are more complicated than 
Graphical 
User Interface
 (
GUI
) editors (and to be honest, they can be), but the main benefit is 
that you can use the same editor regardless of whether or not you have a GUI. In a 
way, this means the non-graphical editors are a bit more portable, and you can rely 
on them more. Almost all installations of Ubuntu will include the 
nano
 text editor, 
and you can rely on that more often than something like 
gedit
 being available. In 
addition, the 
vim
 editor is another popular consideration. It's a bit more advanced 
than 
nano
, but in my opinion, much more powerful. In the following sections, we'll 
look at both 
nano
 and 
vim
.