I would discourage VIM and EMACS as they are not on every *NIX box. It was only a couple of years ago I was working on a site where vanilla VI was the only option and editing on some old vt100's - No cursor keys and no escape key :-)

Real men use VI with h,j,k,l and ^[ for Esc.
Moving your hands to Esc and the Cursor keys interferes with touch typing.


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