I like ne

http://ne.di.unimi.it/

mc (midnight commander) has a built in editor that is actually pretty great. "mcedit" if you have mc installed.

That's a nice alternative. Never thought of that. On most machines I have mc already installed so it's a real package installable alternative (unlike micro).

This is a pretty open ended question. Alternatives include everything from vi/vim, ed, emacs, to pico (and probably some I have forgotten..)

Vim and emacs are huge, powerful texteditors that aren't competing with nano. Ed is...unusable in 2018. So just pico.

(ed was unusable in 1988) :-)

If you would read between lines (of a single line), I meant those ones that aren't vim or emacs related clones.

Alternatives as in "easy-to-use no-hassles console editor"? JOE brings more features and it even comes with a nano (actually pico) mode accessible with the jpico command. Ne comes with macros and it uses standard keybindings (C-s,c,v,z...). Both predate nano and are the repos of most distros.

vim?

Hallelujah

micro

Question could be considered flamebait. Ahhh, the good times... editor wars on usenet.

I use zile.

I like Zile but it lacks Unicode support.