Re: Why use CTL-x CTL-c to quit instead of CTL-x CTL-q?

[Philip Kaludercic]

Francis Belliveau <f.belliveau@comcast.net> writes:

>> On Apr 6, 2021, at 16:52, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>> 
>> If I remember well "vi" stands for "victim":
>> 
> That sounds wrong to me since the original version was just a
> full-screen terminal interface for "ed".  More likely it would have
> stood for "video interface" since "ed" was designed to support "paper
> terminal" interfaces.

AFAIK vi is just the "visual mode/editor" of the ex editor, that in turn
was a development on ed, the line editor.

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        Philip K.