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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>vi</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="vgrep.html" title="vgrep"/><link rel="next" href="video-toaster.html" title="video toaster"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">vi</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vgrep.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="video-toaster.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="vi"/><dt xmlns="" id="vi"><b>vi</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/V·I/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/vi:/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="emphasis"><em>never</em></span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/siks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from ‘Visual Interface’] A screen editor crufted
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together by Bill Joy for an early <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> release.
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Became the <span class="i">de facto</span> standard Unix editor and
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a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of
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<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a> after about 1984. Tends to frustrate new
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users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text
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nor vice versa, and the default setup on older versions provides no
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indication of which mode the editor is in (years ago, a correspondent
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reported that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced <span class="pronunciation">/vi:l/</span>; there is now a vi clone named
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<span class="firstterm">vile</span>). Nevertheless vi (and variants
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such as vim and elvis) is still widely used (about half the respondents in
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a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even EMACS fans often resort to it as
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a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up
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faster than the bulkier versions of EMACS). See <a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy
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wars</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="vgrep.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="video-toaster.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">vgrep </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> video toaster</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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