'vi' is driving me crazy

[Michael Hipp]

dep wrote:
> 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.

dep, you are a man among men! I had been resisting all along admitting that 
something akin to dos edit would do just fine. I just didn't have the courage 
to face the flame war that would fall from the skies like brimstone.

My first experience with Linux (RH5.2 IIRC) I remember being *absolutely, 
positively FLABBERGASTED* that you couldn't simply type, at any command 
prompt, 'edit filename' and end up with something that a reasonably savvy 
power user could navigate.

I haven't gotten over that experience.

Michael