[ckim]

I believe vi is great. Although emacs provides far more features and many use it religiously. I use vi because it's available in linux and freebsd and other *nix systems I work with. Also vi uses far less system resources. Once you master all the keystrokes it will be a fast easy way to edit files. If you prefer nice color syntaxing for coding I suggest vim. It provide color syntaxing for most of major languages. (c, c++, php, perl, python etc.). To enable it type :syntax on. you can add that to your .vimrc .