VI

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
 /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

   1. <tool> {Visual Interface}.

   2. <networking> The {country code} for the U. S. Virgin
   Islands.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1999-01-27)
    

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

VI
       VIsual editor (Unix)