vgrep /vee'grep/ v.,n.
Visual grep. The operation of finding patterns in a file
optically rather than digitally (also called an `optical grep').
See grep; compare vdiff.
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vi /V-I/, not /vi:/ and 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.