Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 16:27:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, sterling@camdensoftware.com Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help Message-ID: <201105092127.p49LRHwK002399@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <20110509211549.GG82282@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon May 9 16:16:48 2011 > Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:15:49 -0700 > From: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help > > > --XRI2XbIfl/05pQwm > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 09 May 2011: > > >=20 > > > By the way, I remember a quote: > > >=20 > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > Hello. My $NAME is ~inigo-montoya. You killed my process. Prepare > > > to vi. --The Unix's Bride > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > http://www.nancybuttons.com/catalog.cgi?o_custom=3D&o_selected=3D1469:1= > &action=3Dbrowse&action_mod=3Dshow&cat=3Dcro > >=20 > > That joke is hilarious. Pedantically speaking, though, it has a small > > problem: "vi" is pronounced like "vee eye", not like the word "vie". > >=20 > > I've always pronounced it like "vie" -- but I was introduced to it long > before the web, back in the dark ages when each shop figured out their > own pronunciations and wrote their own compilers. It was officially 'vee eye' -- so named because it was the _initials_ of the name '<v>isual <i>interace" to ed(1). It was originally a separate program that did _just_ the curses-based display functions, using 'ed' as a back-end process for the actual file manipulation. That said "Prepare to 'vee eye'" is a close enough phonetic match to 'prepare to die' for the joke to still work.
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