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Still, vi does let you do those operations, you just have to do it a bit differently.

Instead of deleting the line-break character (which I admit is a wonderful feature on editors that do have it), you join the two lines together with the J command.

Inserting characters at the end of the line can be done if you think of it instead as appending characters to the line. Remember that in addition to the i command (start inserting ahead of the current character), vi also has an a command (append after the current character), which works the same except that the new text goes after the current character rather than before. To append characters to the end of a line, you can either go there and append ($a), or just use an upper-case A, which does both for you.

Yes, this is nit-picking, and it sounds a bit inconsistent. But I had to at least point out that vi can do the operations that you said it can't - if you talk to it properly.

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