William Morder composed on 2018-02-20 11:58 (UTC-0800):

>> > If I recall correctly, pico was originally the editor for the pine
>> > mailer, and nano was a clone of it created to avoid licensing issues.
>> > �And yes, for the casual user who doesn't intend to immerse him- or
>> > herself in a command-line editor, nano is superior to either vi or emacs.

>> Regarding editors

>> If you have not heard of, there is "ne", which is my favorite command line
>> editor - unfortunately is not installed by default in debian and is not
>> available on other distros.
>> It is however impressive. I can recommend

> Thanks much, will check that out. 

Not counting sed and email, the editors I use 99.8%+ of my time on Linux are
those built into OFMs, which for me are Midnight Commander and FileCommander/L.
~.01% or less of the time that no OFM is or can be made available, I use Nano.
Usually if MC isn't installed I try installing it first before trying any
fallback. MC in Konsole is one of the bits that hooked me on KDE back around the
turn of the century.
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