Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Timothy R Prodin
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00

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In article <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com>,
Jonathan Bodarky  <jbodarky@ncofsi.com> wrote:
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>vi = VIsual editor

Close, but VI stands for VIsual. (not VIsual editor)   Remember that it
was a visual mode addition to ex.  Curses was developed to support this
full screen addition to ex.

Rumor had it that Bill Joy had a multi-window, modeless version of vi;
but lost it in a PDP-11 disk crash and had no backup.


note - I set a followup to comp.editors.

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From: tprodin@ford.com (Timothy R Prodin)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/15
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