Personally, I really hate text-mode editors. (I won't even go into how many times I've had to reboot Linux just to get *out* of Vi!)
One bad experience and you have never given anyone/what a chance to proof you wrong ;) Perhaps take 10 seconds, fire up vim again and read the splash screen which tells you type :q<Enter> to exit type :help<Enter> or <F1> for on-line help ~ type :help version7<Enter> for version info how to exit vim again. I have to admit that I didn't crasp what to do either the first time. So let me tell you that :q<Enter> means you have to type the : to get the command line and <Enter> means you have to press the return key. The second option is using Ctrl-z to but vim into background (when running it within bash).. Then it's killed automatically when you exit bash. I don't want to tell you that you have to use vim. I want to show you that you don't have to be afraid when opening it again (by accident) There are some reasons why vim has been reader's choice 2005 (linux journal). I can't you tell much about emacs. I've chosen to learn vim because I don't have to press that many Meta and Ctrl - keys (which would have made my fingers hurt plenty) and because of the movement commands I couldn't find in emacs. If you are interested you can drop me an email and I can show you some of the IDE features I've written for vim. Marc Weber