Vi

vi is a family of screen-oriented text editors which share certain characteristics, such as methods of invocation from the operating system command interpreter, and characteristic user interface features. The portable subset of the behavior of vi programs, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by, and thus standardized by the Single Unix Specification and POSIX. The original vi program was written by Bill Joy in... more

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  • 1976

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Bill Joy

Bill Joy, longtime KP Limited Partner, joined KPCB as Partner in January 2005.At KP he helps entrepreneurs advance the Internet, develop wireless innovations, and find new ways of using large scale computing to solve the most difficult problems. He also looks to help entrepreneurs who have...

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