Vi rocks. It also rules. So says Vassilii's Editors Sucks-Rules-O-Meter, which mines the verbs on Altavista and pronounces Vi the winner over emacs and all the other editors as a subject of those two superlatives. As of June 22, vi had a 231/10 rules/sucks ratio. And it looks like Linus isn't the only one out there who hates emacs — a sentiment he shared with us on a recent panel that also featured emacs creator Richard Stallman. emacs' rules/sucks ratio is 19/50.
[Let's create a graphic from Vassili's, somehow.]