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docs: add a paragraph at the start of the README about what nano is 

Suggested-by: Lars Wirzenius -- https://liw.fi/readme-review/
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GNU nano -- a simple editor, inspired by Pico
Overview
Purpose
The nano project was started because of a few "problems" with the
wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor.
Nano is a small and simple text editor for use on the terminal.
It copied the interface and key bindings of the Pico editor but
added several missing features: undo/redo, syntax highlighting,
line numbers, softwrapping, multiple buffers, selecting text by
holding Shift, search-and-replace with regular expressions, and
several other conveniences.
Origin
The nano project was started in 1999 because of a few "problems"
with the wonderfully easy-to-use and friendly Pico text editor.
First and foremost was its license: the Pine suite does not use
the GPL, and (before using the Apache License) it had unclear