Yesterday two books that I had ordered from the Amazon marketplace arrived:

* Learning the vi Editor, 6th Edition
* GNU Emacs and XEmacs

Why learn two radically different text editors at the same time? Are you crazy?
No, but my work environment is. The dev policy is that we run xemacs, but oftentimes I need to know all the archaic vi commands because every linux tool that needs to dump you into a text editor will generally dump you into vi.

But why not change environment variable xyz so that you can set your editor?
Well, at CodeIt, oftentimes I need to connect to various remote linux boxes that only have vi installed. Waisting >=15 minutes to install xemacs is not an option.

Note to self: there is a downside to buying "like new" used books via Amazon, sometimes the books smell like they were owned by chain smokers. blech!