Nano has unfriendly keybindings too. At least with emacs, you could load a key map which gives them modern keybindings and give them a print out[1]. There's a

Nano has unfriendly keybindings too. At least with emacs, you could load a key map which gives them modern keybindings and give them a print out[1]. There's a built-in CUA mode too. That way they get better syntax highlighting, indentation and backup files for free. They don't have to /learn/ emacs. I strongly agree with you though that the last thing you want to is throw up all these barriers to students getting started with programming and am appalled that the kids and teacher have to put up with the pi and shell solution. [1] https://github.com/darkstego/wakib-keys#ctrl https://github.com/darkstego/wakib-keys#ctrl