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basically, you use vi only when you have to or really enjoy pain....or just enough to get pico installed :)
Yep, I have not used vi for 10 years for anything significant. The pain however is a vivid memory. vi required too much thought from this wordstar/xedit type. The first thing I did when I found myself stuck in the world of vi, other than learn it, was to get a copy of "The Hessling Editor" (THE) and compile it (AIX) which was just like xedit on the mainframe and SEU on the as/400. The mental vi toggle day to day to another platform editor will take a toll on mere mortals. Those of you who sincerely like vi are of a different mold and I suppose these days you can run vi off the IFS instead of SEU. vi being a 30 year old popular "editor style" does say a lot but....
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