Quote Originally Posted by Durand Hicks
How anyone ended up liking vi as an editor is beyond me, that is the most unfriendly, unintiutive editor I have ever laid eyes on.
Vi is completely inappropriate for a newbie editing a one-off file once every 3 months. We all agree with that and that is why Linux offers so many simpler alternatives. However, for a professional programmer who lives in an editor most of the day, vi (nowadays vim) is a killer app. I create entire beautiful worlds in vim quicker than you can type in your editors name! Vim is the ultimate conduit between my brain and the computer. Don't knock my vi!