[Ayaz]

I never liked nano. The only time I used it for a stretch was when for a year I used a non-GUI, X-less only environment for everything only old ThinkPad running Slackware. I was in University then. That was when I used Pine for email and Slrn for Usenet (and elinks for browser). While I remember using nano to edit emails in Pine (and later moving over to Emacs), I can't remember which editor I used inside Slrn.

I am a thorough Vim believer. I have been for a long time. If I ever accidentally find myself on a nix system with nano or pico as the default editor, I exit and install Vim.

However, in my almost 15 years using nix of all flavours, I have spent considerable time using Emacs as well, both on the GUI and the command line. Eventually, I gave up Emacs in favour of Vim. I've stuck to it since.

[digi_owl]

It may well be that you were not using nano but pico. It is part of pine, and i do believe that part of the reason nano got created was that a common question on distro lists etc was "where is pico?!".

And checking wikipedia i see that pine's license was at one point changed from a BSD-like to one that restricted third parties from distributing altered versions of pine. Something that naturally riled up the FSF.