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From: Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms - collecting a list?
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:21:48 GMT
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In <ED5tq3.337@fz.frmug.org> ag@fz.frmug.org (Alexandre Golovanivsky) writes:
>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.
Quoting from a paper signed by a certain William Joy (the guy who
designed and implemented vi):
Vi (visual) is a display oriented interactive text editor.
...
This document provides a quick introduction to vi. (Pronounced
vee-eye.)
One could expect him to know what he was talking about :-)
Dan
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