[haney]

There are keyboard shortcuts for much of this behavior:

ctrl+a goes to the beginning of a line ctrl+e goes to the end ctrl+k deletes a line

[jcutrell]

I've been very productive with these key bindings. Ctrl+d is forward delete.

There's also a lot of other possibilities with plugins for a given editor, like Vim-style bindings in Sublime.

I haven't yet found any real restrictions in my workflow once I learned some of those.

Take a look at the shortcuts in nano; pretty simple stuff can help a lot. Ctrl + Y = page up. Ctrl + v = page down. Ctrl+x = exit.