Vi

vi is a screen-oriented text editor computer program written by Bill Joy in 1976 for an early BSD release.

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The name vi comes from the shortest unambiguous abbreviation for the command visual in ex. The command in question switches the line editor ex to visual mode.

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Typically, as a matter of convenience, the same program will start up in vi or ex mode, depending on the name with which it is started. "vi" is an initialism; pronounced letter by letter as (in IPA), but generally not as a word, as , and never like the Roman numeral VI (i.e., "six").

Text editor: A text editor is a piece of computer software for editing plain text....

Computer program: A computer program or software program (usually abbreviated to "a program") is a step-by-step list of instructions written for a particular computer architecture in a particular computer programming language. A layman equivalent example would be writing a step-by-step list of instructions in English...

Bill Joy: William N. Joy (born 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy, co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003....

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