I really like Joe, it has the old Wordstar keybindings (Ctrl-K-B to start a block, Ctrl-K-K to end a block, Ctrk-K-C to copy the block, Ctrl-K-H for help on the other keybindings etc).

I tend to only edit files on Linux once or twice a week, so I need an easy to use editor that doesn't need to have too many bells and whistles. Joe meets my needs in ways vi and emacs can't...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/

There seems to be a total lack of screenshots of Joe on the web, so here are a few to give you a flavour.

Selecting a block:


Running a search and replace:


Showing the help: