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> Hmmm... I for one would not want it to be the standard editor. Vi is
> and always has been the standard editor for unix.

Uh, you mean ed(1), right?   It's about the only thing you can claim
as "always" having been the standard editor on UNIX systems.  

It's the bootstrap tool for emacs :-)

louie