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Partly because listing emacs or vim would launch a flame war, but Nano's intent is to be a small text editor, friendly enough for newbies, to handle small jobs,
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Partly because listing emacs or vim would launch a flame war, but Nano's intent is to be a small text editor, friendly enough for newbies, to handle small jobs, like writing an email, or editing /etc/fstab. And it does that pretty well.
- jsmthrowaway 10y agoBut you listed emacs?
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI forgot I did that. It was because Emacs is really technically impressive. It's a bit ugly in places, but on the whole, it's remarkably well designed.