Thankfully I was an EMACS guy in school.  I loved the ability to split the screen in the Non-GUI OS  and type without having to ask permission first.

I don't think anyone has to do development in the shell anymore, so I think Nano is more sane for editing config files.

Still, this is a fascinating story

https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor

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