It is good to try a new editor once in awhile, too. As far as the editor wars go, some of this is just play. For example, I am always a warrior on the side of emacs, because I use it for all my programming, which is what my emphasis is. But I also am doing sysadmin tasks daily, and I use vim exclusively for that. And I read my mail in PINE, which means I'm using PICO. So I use the three main *nix editors daily. Each one, IMO, is better than the other two at what I use it for. And I have used all three, for all three tasks.

But sometimes, cat > FILENAME is just faster, better, cheaper...