Fair points. But this is also true: > There are, at any given point, many [non-]newbies who just want to make that one change to that one configuration file wi

Fair points. But this is also true: > There are, at any given point, many [non-]newbies who just want to make that one change to that one configuration file without [using] a whole programmer's text editor. > There are, by now, probably plenty of people of who use GNU/Linux (...) who don't ____ing care about text editors [when it comes] for that one time they need to add an entry to crontab or sudoers or something. > If you want to do serious programming / system administration, learning one of the advanced editors is - at the very least - good advice. [But even then, a simple editor is always useful.] My point is: not just for newbies.