Re: OT: Storia
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> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:27:28 +0100
> From: Giacomo Bosio <ratavouloira@tiscali.it>
> To: Debian-lists ITA <debian-italian@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: OT: Storia
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> Qualcuno sa perchè "vi" (l'applicazione per scrivere) si chiama
> cosi?
>From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) :
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 on older versions provides no indication of which mode the editor
is in (years ago, a correspondent reported that he has often heard the
editor's name pronounced /vi:l/; there is now a vi clone named `vile').
Nevertheless vi (and variants such as vim and elvis) 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.
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