I would say the same thing, except swap vi and pico in your comment :) I think it's all a matter of what you got used to first. I started out by using vi on s

I would say the same thing, except swap vi and pico in your comment :) I think it's all a matter of what you got used to first. I started out by using vi on some HPUX machines around 13 or 14 years ago. I've just kinda stuck with it ever since because it's on almost every machine I come across, and I can function in vi fairly well.