I used to be a nano user but now whenever I want to use a terminal text editor I will almost always use micro as it has built in support for most languages.
Does anyone else use this? (To be fair I am transitioning to vim now that my emacs muscle memory is waning, and the rate of jed bugfixes likewise).
When I got into Linux there was no nano, only vi and ed. Pico came later with the Pine e-mail client.
Nope. GNU Nano, like a lot of the early GNU utilities, emulates Pico. I was using Pico/Pine around 1994/95 on UNIX workstations, and Pico was the default editor.