IMHO, it's a horrible hack that is just broken. It's obscure and we need to rewrite it because it has a bad structure. ^X^Cquit^[ESC][ESC]^C
Nano is the only one I know how to use lol (assuming we're talking about in-terminal text editors)
And i have used it exclusively for editing Minecraft and KSP server config files
Im definitely a programmer :P