[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

visual interface
     
         vi /v-i/, /vi:/, never /siks/ a screen
        editor crufted together by bill joy for an early bsd
        release.  vi became the de facto standard unix editor and a
        nearly undisputed hacker favourite outside of mit until the
        rise of emacs after about 1984.
     
        it 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
        some emacs fans 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.
     
        1995-10-03
     
     
see also:
screen editor bill joy bsd unix mit emacs 
usenet holy wars 

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