From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 22 13:48:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boris.netgate.net (boris.netgate.net [204.145.147.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD2437B747 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:48:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Received: from localhost (wellsian@localhost) by boris.netgate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA50489; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:46:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:46:51 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian X-Sender: wellsian@boris.netgate.net To: Mark Ovens Cc: Dan Nelson , John Quincy , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: System V In-Reply-To: <20000222193235.A325@marder-1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > vi - rhymes with "high", not Vee Eye if that's what you're getting at. Nope, it's "vee aye". Two syllables. Sorry, but I couldn't let this one rest to infect the archives and other users. Maybe you're just joshing Dan? :) vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi/ and *never* /siks/ n. [from `Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release. Became the de facto standard UNIX editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of {EMACS} after about 1984. Tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even EMACS fans often resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of EMACS). See {holy wars}. Dave ;) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message