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Re: [Sheflug] Vi



Hi Dean, 

On Friday 22 July 2005 20:01, Dean Sas wrote:
> Could someone tell me what VI stands for, or means?

VI stands for Visual Interface as it was originally designed as a visual 
interface to the line editor em.

History of VI is at
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:N14AkASeqMoJ:www.cs.pdx.edu/~kirkenda/joy84.html+vi+history&hl=en.

John

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