I don't think it's that inconceivable? I mean really, it wouldn't hurt to know how to use it given how widespread it is. A question for all the nano-lovers: How do you edit crontab? Do you have nano set as the default editor, or use vi? Or?

P.S. To use nano with crontab where vi is the default editor or otherwise this works in most cases:
Code: 
EDITOR=nano && export EDITOR && crontab -e