4 ms·Vi turns 50 this year11 points by kurren 8mo agokurren 8mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)ETH_start 8mo agoThe short names of old Linux programs like Vi is a legacy of the much more limited storage space available to UNIX systems when they were originally being developed.