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On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:10:41 -0500, c186282 wrote:

> On 11/11/25 15:22, rbowman wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:38:19 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> 
>>> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>>> Probably like my experience with emacs as a Vim user. I use Gvim not
>>>> because of the menus but so it spawns a separate window instead of
>>>> grabbing a terminal. With emacs I was completely lost until it grew a
>>>> menu.
>>>
>>> I am working too often via ssh on servers to like spawning the window.
>> 
>> True. I use Vim when I'm ssh'd in. For me that's mostly a RPi 3+ on a
>> robotic dog :) Even on the RPi 5 I'm more likely to use vncviewer. I'm
>> flexible.
> 
>    Um ... 'nano' works just marvy with SSH - and goes much quicker than
>    any of those ancient line editors. Just sayin ...

So does Vim... 

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-08/msg00045.html

Nano got a special dispensation from RMS after they pulled out of the GNU 
project over the legal bullshit.