It's the notepad of the linux world and like notepad I probably use it more than just about any other application than the browser.

But it's not standard. Ed is the standard editor.

It's the standard of how my brain operates.

and sed is the stream editor

Try micro as well https://github.com/zyedidia/micro

Micro looks nice, but Nano just works when SSHing from Windows, Micro requires some X things to support copy and paste.

Yeah, micro seems quite nice. Bit of an uncanny valley, however, because as a terminal editor, it doesn't support emacs/zile keybindings, and by default it doesn't use nano keybindings.

However, I just realised that if I think of micro as a notepad alternative, the keybindings make total sense.

Funny way to spell vi

You can't compare vi and emacs, emacs is more comparable to nano.

emacs used to be my great enemy, until i met someone SO into emacs and elisp, in each of his dual monitor he had emacs opened. With the two instances sharing the cursor (unless it was one emacs opened in two windows, but i think this is way harder to code). He had no mouse and was surfing with emacs, reading/writing his mails from emacs, had a kanban on emacs... That force respect.

Now i tried evil mode and while i'm still using vim8, i might try to learn elisp during my sabbatic year.

You are asking for a flamewar

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/378/

Dammit Emacs!