Personally, I find vi incredibly difficult to use (the thing you're missing is both having perms to edit the file -- sudo will fix this, and you need to hit i in vi in order to enter INSERT mode).
But jove (a slimmed down emacs build) is available in the optware repo, so I would recommend that if you're looking for something a little easier. And nano is there as well, which I would say is the simplest of the unix command line editors.
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