There is rarely any point learning vi if you are only ever going to use vim. (On many systems, vi is just a symlink to vim anyway). If I had a nickel for every

There is rarely any point learning vi if you are only ever going to use vim. (On many systems, vi is just a symlink to vim anyway). If I had a nickel for every time someone justified not using vim's features by invoking a bizarre imaginary scenario where they were using vi to twiddle bits on a downed snowflake machine, I could buy a few fancy coffees.