Warp wrote:
>   Never having used vi, it's just almost impossible to use for anything.
> I once was forced to use it because there just was no other text editor
> in that system and I just had to edit a file, and it was next to impossible.
> vi doesn't work like a regular text editor, ie. you start it with a file,
> edit the file (by moving the cursor and writing text), then exit the file
> (which offers you the option of saving the file). Even pico is easier to
> use on the first time.

Oh, I see you're pulling an Andrew:  you don't care to learn the 
emacs/vi way, so you bash it.

I was a pretty advanced emacs user and thought exactly the way you just 
described: it felt like a very alien line-oriented simplistic tool fit 
only for the needs of configuration file editing.

That was until I went out of my way to discover why so many people 
seemed to enjoy it just as much as emacs and -- just wait for it! -- 
_actually sat down to learn it_.  Then I realized it was just as enjoyed 
as emacs because it's about as powerful in its own way.

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