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A comment on A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000). Parent comment
"Emacs is like a beautiful woman, but vi is like your hand; it will always be there."
Related: it's pronounced "VEE EYE" if you're a "JIFF" person. And anything but "six" otherwise.
I like "jiff" but prefer "vye", so whatever.
And as I understand it's called vi because of 'visual' mode of 'ed' line editor.
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"Emacs is like a beautiful woman, but vi is like your hand; it will always be there."
Related: it's pronounced "VEE EYE" if you're a "JIFF" person. And anything but "six" otherwise.
I like "jiff" but prefer "vye", so whatever.
And as I understand it's called vi because of 'visual' mode of 'ed' line editor.