vi Editor pronounciation

[Alphathree33]

My girlfriend and I got into a dispute about the pronounciation of our favorite UNIX editor.

Settle our argument, please. 🙂

Alphathree

 

[conjur]

tee-vee

 

[NogginBoink]

vee-eye

 

[Pepsi90919]

can nobody on this forums pronounce names of programs or companies?!?!

it's V - I

 

[Beattie]

yea, it's pronounced like the seperate letters

V I

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Beattie
yea, it's pronounced like the seperate letters

V I

 

[Confused]

It's pronounced "Does it really matter"

it's like the tom-eh-toe/tom-arr-toe arguement


Confused

 

[GigaCluster]

The authoritative answer is "vee-eye", as clarified in Chapter 1, page 3 of O'Reilly's "Learning the vi Editor".

 

[manly]

Dare I ask what kinda GF would even argue about an old UNIX editor? :Q 😛

 

[oboeguy]

First of all, use emacs, ditching that pathetic piece of junk vee-eye. Then, post a poll on how to pronounce emacs. 😀

 

[Alphathree33]

Originally posted by: manly
Dare I ask what kinda GF would even argue about an old UNIX editor? :Q 😛

Well, we were on a long car trip and so we got talking about how we learned UNIX and then I started talking about "vye" because everyone in my workplace pronounces it that way.

So yes, then we got into this argument.

It's alright, she's right about everything 97% of the time anyway. There's no particular reason that this should've been one of my 3%.

I'm a Microsoft guy. Open source is pathetic. (No intent of starting a flame war =p)