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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!141.202.248.11!usilnews.cai.com!krami01@cai.com From: John Hobson <hobjo01@cai.com> 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: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:06:09 -0500 Organization: Computer Associates Lines: 21 Message-ID: <33C63DD1.65BB@cai.com> References: <5p797t$f4n@news0-alterdial.uu.net> <33B806A0.1E03920B@ncofsi.com> <33B937C5.2473@facstaff.wisc.edu> <33C5752C.6D7D@pop.jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: hobjo01@cai.com NNTP-Posting-Host: usligp79.cai.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3698 comp.unix.shell:47077 comp.os.linux.misc:184831 comp.os.linux.x:66565 alt.os.linux:23115 gnu.misc.discuss:32297 comp.unix.solaris:112704 Don Heller wrote: > > David Lawver wrote: > > > > > > >>users. (Same thing I suppose.) To quote from the vi manual: "vi - > > > > >>pronounced vee-eye". > > > > Not on the three major-vendor Unices I checked... > > But see the O'Reilly book, Learnig the vi Editor. On > page 1: (vi is short for visual editor and is > pronounced "vee-eye.") Not to mention _The New Hacker's Dictionary_, 2nd Edition: "vi /V-I/, not /vi:/ and never /siks/" -- John Hobson |I wake up each morning determined to change the hobjo01@cai.com |world...and also to have one hell of a good Computer Associates |time. Sometimes that makes planning the day Lisle, IL USA |a little difficult. -- E B White