vi

5 definitions found

vi - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  vi
      adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units
             [syn: six, 6, vi, half dozen, half-dozen]
      n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one [syn:
           six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen
           , sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad]
      2: more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent
         territory of the United States [syn: United States Virgin   Islands
         , American Virgin Islands, VI]

vi - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  vi
  
     1. <tool> Visual Interface.
  
     2. <networking> The country code for the U. S. Virgin
     Islands.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1999-01-27)
  

vi - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  vi
   /V.I/, not, /vi:/, never, /siks/, n.
  
     [from `Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by Bill
  Joy
     for an early BSD release. Became the de facto standard Unix editor
     and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise
     of EMACS after about 1984. Tends to frustrate new users no end, as
     it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice
     versa, and the default setup on older versions provides no indication
     of which mode the editor is in (years ago, a correspondent reported
     that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/; there is
     now a vi clone named vile). Nevertheless vi (and variants such as vim
     and elvis) is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991
     Usenet poll preferred it), and even EMACS fans often resort to it as
  a
     mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up
     faster than the bulkier versions of EMACS). See holy wars.
  

vi - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  VI
         Virtual Interface (Compaq, Intel, MS, Infiniband)
         

  VI
         VIsual editor (Unix)