I used to be a nano user but now whenever I want to use a terminal text editor I will almost always use micro as it has built in support for most languages.
I got stuck with jed https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/ as my terminal editor after getting too used to the emacs shortcuts but when emacs -nw became too heavy.
Does anyone else use this? (To be fair I am transitioning to vim now that my emacs muscle memory is waning, and the rate of jed bugfixes likewise).
I had a period where I was using jed because I was doing stuff with s-lang (mostly Lynx) and using slrn to read news. But then I drifted into the vi/vims because trying to get jed installed everywhere was a pain.
Vi is fortunately present on just about every unix-like system and in busybox. Typing "v" in the pager and getting thrown into nano always prompts me to installing vim and changing the default editor.
When I got into Linux there was no nano, only vi and ed. Pico came later with the Pine e-mail client.
Nope. GNU Nano, like a lot of the early GNU utilities, emulates Pico. I was using Pico/Pine around 1994/95 on UNIX workstations, and Pico was the default editor.
https://helix-editor.com
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix