editors in rescue mode

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:26 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:

>     Well, I opened a Terminal and brought up the wikipedia and tried to 
> learn VI. It is the pits! I tried to write a simple text file and then 
> modify it and it was a total failure. Then I used VIM and it is a breath 
> of fresh air. With it I corrected everything and I think I would trust 
> myself to do a system mod in an emergency with VIM. But if it it takes 
> VI then I will reload the whole thing :-)

vim is just an extension of vi.  On Ubuntu they are in fact the same
binaries.  vi comands are a subset of vim commands.
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