And I'm talking here very specifically about the default text editor on a Unix system, which historically, I guess, has been not Vim, but VI. People talk about Vim and VI as if though they're the same thing. They're not. If you try to use VI after having used Vim, you will be shocked at the features lacking from VI. And I'm sure there are some VI users out there who love VI for what it is. But a lot of people, I think, actually love Vim and wouldn't be as comfortable on VI. But VI is the thing that comes with most Unix systems. I don't know of one that doesn't ship with VI or some version of VI. And I think that can be sort of a mistake. I think that's a little bit weird to provide people a text editor that when you enter it, you cannot edit text. You are in a different mode than editing text mode. I think that's odd. And frankly, the same would go for Emacs. When I launch Emacs, especially I guess I should do it in a terminal, if I launch Emacs in this terminal, so Emacs-nw for no (4/54)
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