[D-community-offtopic] [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

[Slicky Johnson]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:36:53 -0500
Brian Ryans <brian.l.ryans at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Quoting Joel Rees on 2011-03-21 00:23:
> > But, FWIW, I had already hit i-for-insert and started typing before
> > I realized I wasn't in OZ any more. (Heh.) I didn't recognize an
> > undo key in the labels, so I undid from memory, just in case, then
> > guessed which of the (terse) labels was quit-without-save. It was
> > nice that there were enough clues (and my memories of ancient
> > text-mode word processors helped) that I was able to close without
> > saving and start over.
> 
> I think I need to attend vUA meetings -- it's too easy to tell when I
> didn't vi a file, as there are sporadic editing commands interspersed
> with my text. I sometimes catch myself and delete the offending
> characters, but other times it takes me a night of sleep to proofread
> my stuff and then slap myself.
> 
> vUA: vi Users Anonymous.

lol.. can vim users attend as well?