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by gz 6105 days ago
No offense but the first thing I thought was: what a terrible site design; large clickable quadrants to move between sections, that resize. I've never seen anything quite like it. :)
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I'm not sure I would emulate it, I just said it was neat. :) However, it does use a very nice principle: that large spaces are easy to click, so it's very easy to move between sections using the mouse.
Hmm, "Easy Start For New Vim Users"???

As someone who has generally thought of Vim as the most pathological creation of computer-land ever, there isn't anything in this site that seems aimed to change that impression or even communicate what vi/vim is.

Moreover, I suspect the majority of computer users feel a similar an antagonism to vi/vim and so anyone who's talking about an introduction to vim ought to, uh, explain it.

Moreover, I am a full-time Linux user and I have actually used vi to accomplish small tasks. I can't imagine someone in the know getting anything from this site.

Well, its not an informational site. Cream is an integrated set of macros which makes starting of vim use less painfull. It works under Linux and Windows.

I use vim on remote hosts.

I'm curious which distribution contains vi?

Well, Arch Linux for one. At least until you upgrade it yourself.

I can't imagine that Arch is the only one either. Xubuntu, anyone? Ubuntu comes default with some strange flavor of vim that I can't stand, so I always install vim-nox ASAP on new machines.

Xubuntu has vim 7.1.138 by default. That's not so out of date.
NetBSD comes with nvi, which is a clone of the original vi: http://www.bostic.com/vi/
AIX comes with vi by default.