Warp wrote:
> editors you start the program and just start editing. In other words, you
> eg. press the 'a' key, and the letter 'a' appears at the cursor position.

People who use vi call that "inserting text", not "just start editing". 
That's the confusion.

> You press the down cursor key, and the caret goes to the next line, and
> so on.

vi does this.

>   This is not a question of persective. This a question of whether you
> understood what I wrote or not.

You say "vi is not like other editors", then you use terms that mean 
something different in emacs and vi (such as what "just start editing" 
means, or "opening and saving the file"), and then you get upset when people 
who you *just said* think those things mean something different 
misunderstand you.

>   So if you did not deliberately nitpick, then what is the other possible
> alternative? 

That you're talking to people with a different perspective of what "just 
editing" means, complaining that they have a different perspective, then 
getting mad because they don't understand what your complaint is when you 
use the same words they do to mean something different?

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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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