[tpoacher]

Switching to vim because you don't want to press ^L (or set the respective configuration option in .nanorc) to toggle off hardwrapping is a bit overkill though ...

It's not like "out of the box" vim is different in this regard. Half the time spent by a typical vim user with vim is coming up with personalised configurations.

Surely if I said I'm ditching vim for nano because I wanted columns hardwrapped at 80 characters by default you'd look at me funny, right? xD

[kstrauser]

It was more along the lines of "look, you've outgrown this tool, and it's time for you to move onto something more appropriate to the work you're doing". I'm not going to criticize anyone for using nano to edit the random file here or there (so long as using it doesn't break the file). But honestly, you reach the limits of nano's abilities fairly quickly. As fine as it is for a quick change to a file, Vim and Emacs other programming editors are popular for a reason. I surely wouldn't want to use it to work on large projects with lots of files.