When comparing PSPad vs nano, the Slant community recommends nano for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” nano is ranked 14th while PSPad is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose nano is:
Nano includes only the bare minimum of functionality needed to edit documents making it very simple.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free
PSPad is completely free to download and use.
Pro Simple and small
PSPad is simple, small, and lightweight. It's also quite fast.
Pro Code highlighting for many languages
PSPad supports code highlighting for several languages.
Pro Portable version
Pro Column mode
Editing in column mode.
Pro Integrated HEX editor
Pro Accented words
In PSPad, the user can add accents to words.
Pro Integrated FTP client
Pro Easy to use
Nano includes only the bare minimum of functionality needed to edit documents making it very simple.
Pro Built-in cheat sheet for shortcuts
Shortcuts for common commands are shown at the bottom of the editor.
Pro Available on almost every Linux system as default
Similar to vi (vim), you can find nano on most Unix-like systems (even on Cygwin).
Pro Most of the languages supported
Syntax coloring is available for most of the programming language.
Pro Lightweight and bug free
Very stable editor that never hangs / leaks or crashes.
Cons
Con Windows only
It's only available for Windows.
Con No code folding
Does not support code folding.
Con No content assist
Con Limited feature set
While nano is fine for writing blog posts or doing quick modifications, it's probably not suitable for programmers or someone who needs to work on an editor for an extensive period of time.
Con Uncommon keybindings
Nano uses a strange set of default keybindings, which is totally different than Vim, Emacs, VSCode and Sublime.