My favorite text editor (yes it’s more than that) is given its due justice in this series of tutorials over at Linux Gazette. Sooner or later you are gonna have to learn Vim (Vi) or Emacs, might as well learn the better one :-P.

Editing with vi can be a nightmarish experience for newbies of unices. But it is one of the most popular editors in the unix world, and nearly all unix boxes are equipped with some variant of vi.

Well I definitely wouldn’t recommend non-geek users to give Vim a shot, but nobody who reads this site is a non-geek user so I say give Vim a shot. It available for windows as well.