vi and pico are intended for completely different things. Pico is really meant to be as easy as possible for people who aren't that comfortable with computers/command line interface (i.e. pine, etc.) vi (and emacs, if you're in that camp) are so much more powerful than pico/nano it's like comparing a moped to a F1 car. It might be a pain at first, but it's worth knowing how to use it. Having a search facility that can handle regular expressions and a decent macro recording capability are hard to give up once you know how to use them. vi has been a part of every Unix/Unix clone for pretty much forever.
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Originally Posted by meatmanek
Nobody really should be using either anymore - both are outdated.
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The command line interface is FAR from dead...it just depends on what you are doing. I find it hard to believe anyone gets very far as a programmer/computer engineer without knowing how to do basic tasks with a CLI.
Personally, I use TextMate (a nice GUI editor for OS X) and vi. Both have their merits. I use vim for something almost every day.