> vi scares me. I've got a vi clone, and quite frankly I'm terrified of it.

I hope your clone is "vim" -- that's a particularly good one. Anyway, when learning vi, there's a nasty hump to get over right in the beginning as you learn to be proficient with the basic commands that make it usable. After that, it gets comfortable and the neat thing is that you never stop learning nifty little commands it can do. I've been using it for seven years, and I still don't even know close to all it can do. But as far as text editing goes (not word processing, which is a slightly different task), a reasonably proficient vi user can do things faster than other people using other editors. It certainly blows the tires off DOS's "edit".

I second Dave's advice -- if you don't mind trying to learn it, then learn it. But you don't need to learn it just for AGL.

Regarding our previous email, I have tried out DOS "Edit" and confirmed that yes, it translates tab characters into multiple spaces. So Edit is essentially incapable for use writing AGLL code. However, I tried Windows' Notepad, and it seemed to work very well. It doesn't do any auto-wrapping, and it preserves tab characters. That makes it just right for AGLL coding.

Or you can download the editor Ni'tharn suggested.