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It's the notepad of the linux world and like notepad I probably use it more than just about any other application than the browser.

But it's not standard. Ed is the standard editor.

It's the standard of how my brain operates.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html

and sed is the stream editor

Try micro as well https://github.com/zyedidia/micro

Micro looks nice, but Nano just works when SSHing from Windows, Micro requires some X things to support copy and paste.

Yeah, micro seems quite nice. Bit of an uncanny valley, however, because as a terminal editor, it doesn't support emacs/zile keybindings, and by default it doesn't use nano keybindings.

However, I just realised that if I think of micro as a notepad alternative, the keybindings make total sense.