In much the same way that if you live in a world of Word, vi is hostile. Don't get me wrong -- I use and love irc, for many of the reasons given above. I just t

In much the same way that if you live in a world of Word, vi is hostile. Don't get me wrong -- I use and love irc, for many of the reasons given above. I just think if I could have all or many of its benefits in a way that all my non-technical Facebook friends could use too, there'd be something exceptionally powerful and useful. It's almost like right now we're in the days of pine and mailman. What we could have is GMail.