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And I think you may be failing to realize these editors are 20+ years into the past, and their power is also available in modern, decent interface editors. For example, Ultra Edit supports advanced column editing, regex seaerch and replace, macros, UTF-8 and UTF-16 conversion, incremental search, custom keys, various ways of handling tabs and indentation, bracket matching, multiple clipboards, multiple undo/redo, custom coloring, and more. The difference between UltraEdit and VIM is that the former is much, much easier and faster to learn (therefore more productive), and easier to learn how to do the advanced stuff. Besides, by using standard keys, you already know how to move and do all the basic operations.
BTW, question: does Nano support the standard keys for movement, selection and clipboard?