… unnecessarily complicated for the user to do that using vi.
I prefer editors/nano:
Code:
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p:~ # grep -e EDITOR -e VISUAL ~/.cshrc
setenv EDITOR /usr/local/bin/nano
setenv VISUAL /usr/local/bin/nano
# setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi
# setenv VISUAL /usr/bin/vi
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p:~ #
YMMV; ee(1) is integral to the system.