== Distributions: keep your hands off _vi_

Dear Linux distributions: if I want to use a freaky super-intelligent
editor I am perfectly able to fire up emacs myself, or even type '_vim_'
instead of '_vi_' (honest, the extra letter is not too much for me to
type). I want *vi*. You know, the simple and predictable thing that
system administrators like because it behaves.

As an aid to your planning, here is a minimum feature for any editor
called _vi_:

> When I paste things into an alleged _vi_ in insert mode in a terminal
> window in X, you put them in ~~exactly as they are~~. No more, no
> less.

If your 'vi' does anything else, you are not being helpful, you are
causing me to violently throw your distribution at the wall because
you have just screwed up what I was trying to do.

(I would prefer that you not mangle my typing either, but not mangling
my copy and pastes in X is a minimum standard.)

(I do not mind whatever distributions choose to do with things called
'_vim_' and the like. They can be as freaky super-intelligent as they
want. My objections are strictly for what happens when I innocently type
'_vi_'.)