I recently heard an HPR Podcast where it was mentioned that Nano was not a real text editor. That somehow VI or Emacs or Kate or Gedit were in some way better than Nano. I just wanted to set the record straight that Nano is a serious editor that has a huge following and a facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/the-GNU-nano-text-editor/51469466761

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_nano

http://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group=nano