Linus Torvalds said he might switch to nano for his daily driver[0]
>[Text editing is] all done in a traditional terminal, although I don't use 'vi'. I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar. I got used to it at the University of Helsinki when I was a wee lad, and I've not been able to wean myself from it, although I suspect I will have to soon enough. I hacked up (a very limited) utf-8 support for it a few years ago, but it's really showing its age, and showing all the signs of having been written in the 80's and the version I use was a fork that hasn't been maintained since the mid 90's.
> University of Helsinki used it because it worked on DOS, VAX/VMS and Unix, which is why I got introduced to it. And now my fingers are hardcoded for it. I really need to switch over to something that is actually maintained and does utf-8 properly. Probably 'nano'. But my hacked-up piece of historical garbage works just barely well enough that I've never been really forced to teach my old fingers new tricks.
I used joe for a while, basically because it was installed at the Uni's labs (and because I had used WordStar on DOS). vi (or vim, can't remeber) was misconfigured with terrible defaults, so basically I got used to joe.
It was very hard to force myself to stop using it and learn vi!
One of my colleagues is a old Unix hacker (one of my favourite things to do is get him ranting about his least favourite OS of all time, HP-UX 8.x). I have wondered before what editor he uses, and once when I peeked over his shoulder I saw that it was MicroEMACS. At the time I thought it might be a neat GNU Emacs clone with a smaller footprint, but no, it’s nothing of the kind. Old habits die hard.
>[Text editing is] all done in a traditional terminal, although I don't use 'vi'. I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar. I got used to it at the University of Helsinki when I was a wee lad, and I've not been able to wean myself from it, although I suspect I will have to soon enough. I hacked up (a very limited) utf-8 support for it a few years ago, but it's really showing its age, and showing all the signs of having been written in the 80's and the version I use was a fork that hasn't been maintained since the mid 90's.
> University of Helsinki used it because it worked on DOS, VAX/VMS and Unix, which is why I got introduced to it. And now my fingers are hardcoded for it. I really need to switch over to something that is actually maintained and does utf-8 properly. Probably 'nano'. But my hacked-up piece of historical garbage works just barely well enough that I've never been really forced to teach my old fingers new tricks.
[0] https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...