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Both nano and emacs suffer from the same problem - bad defaults. You need to pass like ten options to nano for it to work as expected to edit configuration files and small scripts.

# nano --help | tail -n1  
-/             --modernbindings        Use better-known key bindings  
# cat /etc/debian_version 
13.6  

Nano has proper copy/pate, it works identical to any text editor. Mark -> copy/cut -> paste

Yeah, you need to first damage them, then threat of additional damage to them and their immediate families will work.