The cool thing about a good text editor is that you can use it for ALL of those things. I'm an emacs guy not a vim guy but this fundamental point is similar.

The cool thing about a good text editor is that you can use it for ALL of those things. I'm an emacs guy not a vim guy but this fundamental point is similar. Being good at vi means you're good at editing arbitrary text whether it's VB6, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, XML, wiki markup, the output of 'find' or 'ls -l', or some randomly formatted table that someone sent you in an email.