Another editor is pico. Fine, what does pico stand for? An editor in the style of the PIne COmposer. What's pine? Pine Is Not Elm. What's Elm? ELectronic Mail. This whole idea about naming things in the UNIX world just gets carried on to no end.
But if you start pico, there is at least enough stuff displayed at the bottom of the screen to allow you to save your file and exit.