Ultraedit, Notepad, Joe, Textpad: all those editors are created for people who can’t handle Vi. Give it to a normal user, and you can bet that there’s absolutely no way they’re going to find its functions by simply using trial and error. A diehard Vi fan, however, will rather die than admit that Vi is not the best text editor ever created.

I don’t plan to take sides here, since I don’t want to be abducted and interrogated in an old warehouse by a bunch of Vi fanatics; instead, I’ll merely point to jsvi, an online, Javascript version of Vi.

jsvi is actually rather old, but DownloadSquad just dug it out from somewhere; I haven’t seen it before, and hopefully you haven’t either, so there you go.