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A terrifying fear of vim modes, maybe. I guess people stick with what they're used to. I don't know, I'm trying here, I really am.

joe and nano may be your friends.

If one is afraid of Vim, I would not recommend Emacs.

Because they just created a plain vanilla Windows install in a machine not connected to the net? And various pathological EOM apps still use something like a shell script?

(the reverse of this is kind-of the only situation in which I use vi, which none-the-less I can use...)

Shit happens...

I mean, the degree to which users wind-up wedded to the default applications in a given OS should not be underestimated or chalked-up to "morons"...

The only excusable reason I can think of is a "one-off" edit on a foreign computer that doesn't already have your editor of choice installed.

The real question is why would anyone edit shell scripts under Windows?

I do it sometimes, when my job doesn't allow other OS's. But I install GVim. :p