Tim O’Reilly 1999年在 《ask Tim》 栏目里写到：“But then one day, I discovered that someone had blown away the custom emacs profile that I had gotten comfortable with. It took about a week for me to get it restored, and in the meantime, I switched to vi, and got hooked.”
Bill Joy 1999年接受访谈回忆他最初写 vi 时的情景，提到“vi was written for a world that doesn’t exist anymore”，主要感慨1976年他编写 vi 时的所用设备条件之差，这可能也是 vi 会被设计成这样的原因之一。
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