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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!jobone!dailyplanet.srl.ford.com!eccws1.dearborn.ford.com!tprodin From: tprodin@ford.com (Timothy R Prodin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Followup-To: comp.editors Date: 15 May 1997 15:10:14 GMT Organization: Ford Motor Company, EE CAE Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5lf90m$1886@eccws1.dearborn.ford.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> Reply-To: tprodin@ford.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ees290.pd8.ford.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44998 comp.os.linux.misc:175440 comp.os.linux.x:61625 alt.os.linux:21178 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3243 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40959 gnu.misc.discuss:31281 comp.unix.solaris:106595 In article <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com>, Jonathan Bodarky <jbodarky@ncofsi.com> wrote: ... >vi = VIsual editor Close, but VI stands for VIsual. (not VIsual editor) Remember that it was a visual mode addition to ex. Curses was developed to support this full screen addition to ex. Rumor had it that Bill Joy had a multi-window, modeless version of vi; but lost it in a PDP-11 disk crash and had no backup. note - I set a followup to comp.editors.