Warp wrote:
>   Never having used vi, it's just almost impossible to use for anything.

The commands are definitely unintuitive. The modal interface is hard to 
understand if you don't know about it.

> I once was forced to use it because there just was no other text editor
> in that system and I just had to edit a file, and it was next to impossible.

It ain't notepad. :-)

> vi doesn't work like a regular text editor, ie. you start it with a file,
> edit the file (by moving the cursor and writing text), then exit the file
> (which offers you the option of saving the file). 

This is actually how it works, except that inserting text is a command 
rather than the default mode.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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