On 29/03/14 19:15, Frank Stachyra wrote:
Surely there is a way to do this that might be made more readily apparent to anybody who has never used reportbug, and is not adept at using linux terminals.
reportbug will be invoking whatever your default text editor is. If the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables are defined, it will attempt to run the program they specify; otherwise it will invoke the simple text editor 'nano' (which is what you appear to be having trouble with).
nano's on-screen help uses the conventional Unix notation of ^A, ^B, ^C, etc. to indicate Control-A, Control-B, Control-C, etc. Pressing Control-X will prompt you to save the modified buffer (answer Yes); reportbug will detect that the file it created for you to edit has been successfully edited, and continue with its normal sequence of operations.