On 1/27/2021 9:02 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I did ask why (in the world) they used it, and they said because
it's always available by default - no install needed.

That is certainly a good reason for learning "The Editor From Hell". But isn't 
emacs almost as common?

It may be, but they never mentioned emacs and as far as I could tell they used nothing but vi.

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