@jpmens @ed1conf

All I'll say about vi is that it was *such* a pain to learn back in my 1st freelance gig in 1992 (it was basically all they had on their Unix boxes!) that I chose to stick with it ever since and never learn another! I've always used gvim on both Linux and Win, and now my .vimrc is a thing of beauty (to me!)

And I've never got involved in the 'editor wars', because we're all different and work in different ways!

@bytebro

For what it's worth, POSIX shells provide a built-in means of creating the optimal .vimrc file:

$ : > ~/.vimrc

(this also works for an optimal .exrc if you use vi rather than vim)

@jpmens

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