vi vs emacs in a student enviro

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1045 at ficc.UUCP> peter at ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>There does not exist a decent editor on UNIX, or for that matter any other
>system I have ever used.
[followed by a very incomplete description of his ideas for an editor]

"There does not exist" requires either proof or exhaustive investigation.
Just because neither "vi" nor "EMACS" strikes you as decent does not
mean that some other editor might not.

Have you tried the Grand editor (current incarnation of the RAND
editor)?  How about Sam, the most "decent" editor I've ever used?