'vi' is driving me crazy

[dep]

quoth Net Llama!:

| Actually, i was thinking this sounds alot like the classic vi vs.
| emacs flame war, except that its just vi versus everything else.

it would be awfully nice if there were an editor very much like the dos 
edit. as more people use linux, and until the configuration tools 
become infallible, the need for a console text editor that requires 
*no* knowledge, that is entirely obvious, becomes even greater. 
sometimes a wheel is round for a reason.

such an editor is not needed by vi masters, even as edit was not needed 
by those at home with copy con.
-- 
dep

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists
have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them.
				    -- G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"