[1] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wysiwyg
     adj : relating to or being a word processing system that prints
           the text exactly as it appears on the computer screen

[2] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

wysiwyg
     what you see is what you get dtp
     
     
     
     
     

[3] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

wysiwyg /wiz'ee-wig/ or /wiss'ee-wig/ adj. traced to flip wilson's
   "geraldine" character c.1970 describes a user interface under which
   "what you see is what you get", as opposed to one that uses more-or-less
   obscure commands that do not result in immediate visual feedback. true
   wysiwyg in environments supporting multiple fonts or graphics is a a
   rarely-attained ideal; there are variants of this term to express
   real-world manifestations including wysiawyg what you see is _almost_
   what you get and wysimolwyg what you see is more or less what you
   get. all these can be mildly derogatory, as they are often used to
   refer to dumbed-down user-friendly interfaces targeted at
   non-programmers; a hacker has no fear of obscure commands compare
   wysiayg. on the other hand, emacs was one of the very first wysiwyg
   editors, replacing actually, at first overlaying the extremely
   obscure, command-based teco. see also wimp environment. oddly
   enough, wysiwyg has already made it into the oed, in lower case yet.
   --esr

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see also:
user-friendly wysiayg emacs teco wimp environment 

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

wysiwyg
     
        what you see is what you get
     
     
see also:
what you see is what you get 

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