All the more reason for you to finally bite the bullet and make the switch to the superior editor /s

... where Control+L means repeat previous find/replace. (-:

It's not every day that you see someone abandoning Emacs for nano.

It does a cycle in Emacs, actually. First it centers, then it puts the caret at the bottom, then it puts it an the top (like readline, in a way)

Yes (actually, it's center -> top -> bottom); I just didn't want to make the comment longer. Anyway, in Emacs, it's something I frequently do without thinking.