Long time since I last saw a *nix with no emacs whatsoever... nano is too limited, scp'ing files around is too much hassle, vi - ok I suppose, but just does not feel at home for me Sorry, but with emacs, my fingers seem to do the editing themselves - it's hard to teach them different keys after all these years :-)
So, if you have root, please 'apt-get install emacs21-nox'
thanks,
Amit
