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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news1.mpcs.com!news.radio.cz!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.70.231.3!spstimes.sps.mot.com!newsdist.sps.mot.com!newsgate.sps.mot.com!not-for-mail From: tkacik@adtaz.sps.mot.com (Tom Tkacik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms - collecting a list? Date: 14 Jul 1997 17:54:30 GMT Organization: Motorola Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5qdp4m$9qk$2@newsgate.sps.mot.com> References: <ED5tq3.337@fz.frmug.org> Reply-To: tkacik@adtaz.sps.mot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: yucca2.sps.mot.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3695 comp.unix.shell:47065 comp.os.linux.misc:184756 comp.os.linux.x:66524 alt.os.linux:23102 gnu.misc.discuss:32294 comp.unix.solaris:112671 In article <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". How about a couple of lines from "An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi" by Bill Joy, (Vi's author), Sep. 16, 1980. "Vi (visual) is a display oriented interactive text editor." "This document provides a quick introduction to vi. (Pronounced vee-eye.)" Tom Tkacik tkacik@adtaz.sps.mot.com