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by murat131 2177 days ago
Over the years I've used a lot of editors on unix shell; ed, jed, joe, pico, nano, emacs, vi(m) and I think vim is the best editor on shell for its performance, speed, and mobility. It's a rational choice for SRE/DevOps type engineers. I still sometimes use nano for very quick edits especially when having no physical Esc button frustrates me. However if mobility is not a concern, in other words if I'm editing files on my own environment (say my mac), I'm running Emacs.
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>especially when having no physical Esc button frustrates me

It's not uncommon in the Vim world to remap Esc to CapsLock