- A screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by the Single Unix Specification and POSIX. The original code for vi was written in 1976 by Bill Joy, as the visual mode for the ex line editor. The name “vi” is derived from the shortest unambiguous abbreviation for the ex command
visual, which switches the ex line editor to visual mode. ← Wikipedia
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