I've always been surprised by nano's ubiquity since it comes across to me as a very niche application. It's a highly-accessible, bare-bones text editor... for

I've always been surprised by nano's ubiquity since it comes across to me as a very niche application. It's a highly-accessible, bare-bones text editor... for a terminal, where the overwhelming majority of users will be "power users" who will likely value the additional features made available by vim or emacs. It's not a bad tool. I just seems to be designed for a very small demographic.