[zeugma]

Vi is a great editing mode — for a real operating system, Emacs. :)

I suppose you've seen the old joke about emacs being a great operating system that includes an editor.

Actually, from everything I've seen emacs is pretty powerful. However, I started with vi, and spent a lot of time learning how to use it really well. Getting to the same point with emacs would take a similar investment. As I've already lost all my hair, I'm not going to go there. :-)

[Lx]

VI, I loved it, back around the '90s, my co-workers thought I was crazy using it while they used edlin (seriously, comparing edlin to VI is nuts). Besides the funky h,j,l,k keyboard cursor movers, VI was awesome and then they changed to the cursor keys. You could get some serious work done in minimal time if you knew what you were doing.

Sadly, I fell prey to the Siren's song of GUI editors.

And Novell's was atrocious. It helps when you start with a gui as the base instead of grafting it onto a basically text based O/S.