text editing in ubuntu

[Chris Jones]

>
> I'll strongly agree with Tim, that [g]vim is a great, great tool for  
> many
> things including html editing. The biggest issue is that a default,  
> bare metal
> install of vim has no configuration whatsoever and is awkward as  
> hell for
> people who have not had the pleasure before. Simple things become very
> difficult. I have often wondered why distros don't include a simple,  
> default
> .vimrc that mimics something like gedit just to get people over the  
> first few
> hours of hell.

Or .... Just forget vim and use gedit....

I think your post just proves my point that vim is not a good editor ...

Chris