I'm a professional software developer, working in a mix of Windows, OSX, and Linux, and nano's still my go-to text-mode editor. Nano's got simple, easy-to-remember keyboard shortcuts, it's modeless, and it's more than powerful enough for the tasks I'm typically doing at the command line (editing git commit messages, light editing of config files, etc.).
When I need more features, I'd rather be in a GUI editor: Sublime or Atom for plain text editing, and the JetBrains IDEs or Visual Studio for projects where we're using a full IDE. I've yet to find anything in my workflow that would make it worth the time and effort to learn emacs or vim, beyond the basics needed to get around just in case one of them is the only thing available (coughGit for Windowscough).
When I need more features, I'd rather be in a GUI editor: Sublime or Atom for plain text editing, and the JetBrains IDEs or Visual Studio for projects where we're using a full IDE. I've yet to find anything in my workflow that would make it worth the time and effort to learn emacs or vim, beyond the basics needed to get around just in case one of them is the only thing available (coughGit for Windowscough).
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