merge 315139 322852 thanks The reason for this message is that for some idiotic reason, vim gets installed at a ridiculously high priority for the editor alternative, and it seems to get pulled in by a fairly common task. Hence, lots of newbies make (or made, before the vi nag) reports that they can't get out of the editor, ":q" not exactly being intuitive.
Bump your mode to anything above novice (or is it standard?) and it goes away. I probably will add a message to that effect in the near future. Chris