Both vi and EMACS seem to have taken the "fuck the users" approach to heart. I suppose I might be of the wrong mindset to operate either application, though the developers could have at the very least taken the time to provide a decent set of documentation for their astonishingly-complex applications.
With tons of books and documentation for both the editors, why on earth are you cribbing. And do take a look at the use cases before ranting about a software, vi was designed to reduce the amount of traffic when editing over the network, nobody envisioned it to stay till 2009.. but it stuck a chord with the devs and it stayed. Vi/emacs design manifesto was never to create a user-friendly system. You are always free to use notepad/gedit or whatever you kids are using these days.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
