'vi' is driving me crazy

[Michael Hipp]

Collins Richey wrote:

> Correct me if I am wrong, but you seem to be looking for "the perfect
> editor," and I don't think such a beast exists. There are decent
> editors (nano, vi. and maybe others) for the console environment, and
> there are lots of choices for the X environment. Your challenge, IMO,
> is to find the least undesirable editor and move on, or ???.

Problem is I've been spoiled by http://www.TextPad.com which is a wonderful, 
but hoplessly windows-only text editor.

Michael