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Re: Why use CTL-x CTL-c to quit instead of CTL-x CTL-q?
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Philip Kaludercic |
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Re: Why use CTL-x CTL-c to quit instead of CTL-x CTL-q? |
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Thu, 08 Apr 2021 01:00:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
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.
--
Philip K.
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