##Yes, Nano I would have entitled this piece "no thanks, emacs," but due to over usage in situations where we are trying to hide the intensity of our true feelings, it seems that the term "no thanks" comes off sarcastic, and would seem so even more as a title. Thus, rather than be negative, the title is positive: yes, Nano, because it works for me. Keeping in mind that I just use it to write prose and the simplest of scripts, Nano is good enough for me. In fact, Nano has a similarity to the codex book in that much of the value comes not what is in it, but rather what is *not* in it, and thus filtered out. My life has been plagued with big pile ups of projects began, but not moved along very far. Using Nano in the way I do, with a one level of abstraction to outline, a tab for an action-level to do list, a place for the one piece I am writing and one last tab for possible scripting forces structure onto what I am doing. I am afraid that Emacs would simply enable my tendency to veer off in a bunch of directions. I get how powerful it can be for writing code -- the demonstrations are mind-blowing -- but as it is I am sticking with minimalism. Blessed are those that emacs can save. But I don't think I am of the Elect.