diff --git a/docs/using/selecting.md b/docs/using/selecting.md
index 2e878bb6..c2d9e7d2 100644
--- a/docs/using/selecting.md
+++ b/docs/using/selecting.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ and versioning strategy.
 - [TeX Live](https://www.tug.org/texlive/) for notebook document conversion
 - [git](https://git-scm.com/), [emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) (actually `emacs-nox`),
   [vi](https://vim.org/) (actually `vim-tiny`), [jed](https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/),
-  [nano](https://www.nano-editor.org/), tzdata, and unzip
+  [nano](https://www.nano-editor.org/) (actually `nano-tiny`), tzdata, and unzip
 
 ### jupyter/r-notebook
 
diff --git a/minimal-notebook/Dockerfile b/minimal-notebook/Dockerfile
index c053b1c5..bb11eeb6 100644
--- a/minimal-notebook/Dockerfile
+++ b/minimal-notebook/Dockerfile
@@ -28,8 +28,11 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -yq --no-install-recommends \
     # ----
     tzdata \
     unzip \
-    nano \
+    nano-tiny \
     && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
+# Create alternative for nano -> nano-tiny
+RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/nano nano /usr/bin/nano-tiny 10
+
 # Switch back to jovyan to avoid accidental container runs as root
 USER $NB_UID