From: Francis Belliveau <f.belliveau@comcast.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why use CTL-x CTL-c to quit instead of CTL-x CTL-q?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:02:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <07251466-E4C9-4349-8969-BFC689AA29A7@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YGzKDvaz9wrFnaa7@protected.localdomain>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-07 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-06 2:49 Why use CTL-x CTL-c to quit instead of CTL-x CTL-q? Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-06 7:59 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-06 12:34 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-04-06 14:53 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-04-06 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-06 16:17 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-06 15:15 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-04-06 20:52 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-06 21:00 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-06 23:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-06 23:16 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-04-07 21:02 ` Francis Belliveau [this message]
2021-04-07 23:00 ` Philip Kaludercic
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