Funnily enough, Bill Joy (creator of vi) said he would have made a modeless editor if he had thought of it, he just didn’t. I use vi-family editors for the sam

Funnily enough, Bill Joy (creator of vi) said he would have made a modeless editor if he had thought of it, he just didn’t. I use vi-family editors for the same reason I use grep: it’s installed everywhere. I’m not religious about its benefits.