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From: ag@fz.frmug.org (Alexandre Golovanivsky)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms - collecting a list?
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 15:01:14 GMT
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Don Heller (dheller@pop.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
> But see the O'Reilly book, Learnig the vi Editor.  On 
> page 1:  (vi is short for visual editor and is
> pronounced "vee-eye.")

I believe "vi" is short for "Visual Interface" rather
than "Visual Editor".

I read it somewhere.


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Alexandre Golovanivsky  -  ag@fz.frmug.org  -  OpenBSD, Linux.