[klodolph]

Maybe you can get one. I don’t see a nano mode in MELPA or GNU, and it doesn’t ship with Emacs. Nano is also much more likely to be installed than Emacs, especially since Apple stopped shipping Emacs with macOS.

[jshier]

Apple also stopping shipping nano with macOS (as of 12.3) and went back to pico.

[klodolph]

Huh, interesting. Nano is symlinked to pico. I never noticed, since I don’t use it.

[Fnoord]

GNU Nano is GPLv3 which Apple boycots (its v3 since 2007 according to Wikipedia). Tells us GPLv3 works :-) not sure what the license of Pico is. My first text editor was Q&A on MSDOS, it relied on F-keys, and on Windows 9x I got used to ctrl as modifier. Pico/Pine and later Nano was a natural successor, easy to learn. I use Vim and ST now.

[assttoasstmgr]

> not sure what the license of Pico is

Apache 2.0. I've used pine as a mail reader for well over two decades at this point, mostly on big old UNIX boxes. GNU nano always felt like the knockoff version.

[Fnoord]

Right,it got relicensed. Originally it was not available on e.g. Debian.

[sigzero]

I don't even think Pico is in active development any more.

[sigzero]

I wish they wouldn't do that. Nano is not Pico.

[klodolph]

Vim isn't vi, but vi is usually symlinked to vim. And sh is very often a symlink to something like dash or bash.