Nano, because it’s the only one I can remember how to quit from without power cycling the computer.

I use emacs

Vim, but I also find this battle completely stupid.

I use nano because I haven’t learned how to use anything else yet.

sed forever

Just echo text to create a new file or use sed and awk to edit an existing file.

In reality, I use nano for edits and vimdiff for comparing files (usually a .pacnew after an update on a headless device)

Emacs.

With all the vimmery going around nowadays though, I feel like I’m on the losing team. ;_;

“Why are we running from the police, Dad?”

“Because they use vim, son. We use Emacs”.

Helix

If we’re talking purely something basic to be able to edit some shit on the system i think i would choose nano, purely because i’ve used it for years to edit everything (yes, even config files in full programming languages lol) and thus i’m very familiar with it. If we’re talking anything terminal-based in general, i like helix as a modal editor. I chose it over neovim at the time because i didn’t feel like configuring the whole thing, and helix is pretty much ready to go with lsp and everything ootb. A few weeks ago though i decided to make the switch to emacs, since i use guix now, so it felt like a natural fit. I might check out emacs in the terminal at some point, but i’m sticking with the gui for now.

nano

Seems I’m alone here on this but I’m team vis

I’m on team “whatever comes pre-installed”

I’m an emacs -nw kind of guy.

But if I have to pick one of your options, nano

Nano is the easiest most straightforward to use, and it’s what I always use. I have nvim setup and I really believe it is better but I have had 20 years using nano and I really struggle forcing myself to switch and get used to it as it’s so completely different.