> I started to use vim because I needed a CLI editor that is powerful and bloat-free. Emacs seemed too much feature creep to me. My pet peeve is that by defaul

> I started to use vim because I needed a CLI editor that is powerful and bloat-free. Emacs seemed too much feature creep to me. My pet peeve is that by default on most Linux distros nowadays, when I type in "vi" I get the Crayola® colours of Vim. If I wanted Vim I would have typed in "vim". I'm editing a .conf file, not hacking the kernel source code. (Also I have no need for all the colours of the default ls(1): a simple 'ls -F' will do for showing the characters "/@*" for their type. No need for the Technicolor®.)