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> 		I think the reason that the original authors of
> 		the helpfile used `mode' was that Bill Joy  and
> 		Mark Horton used the term when they published their
> 		original paper on vi.

"An Introduction to Display Editing with VI"

I know. That tradition has done more to confuse people about VI than
anything else in the program or documentation.

*sigh*