[R-SIG-Mac] If you use R from the Terminal ...

[elijah wright]

> as I do, it  makes sense to set in your Rprofile.site
>
>         options(editor="/usr/bin/open")
>
> otherwise file.show() and file.edit() will open files in vi.
> Yes, I said vi.

from the POV of a "traditional unix user", this is 100% expected behavior.

folks are probably better off learning enough of the vi commandset to
cope, rather than using workarounds... it pays off in the long run.

--elijah