YAFIYGI

abuse /yaf'ee-y*-gee/ You asked for it, you got it.

The command-oriented ed/vi/nroff/TeX style of wordprocessing or other user interfaces which are not WYSIWYG.

What you actually asked for is often not immediately apparent.

This precise sense of "You asked for it, you got it" seems to

have first appeared in Ed Post's classic parody "RealProgrammers don't use Pascal"; the acronym is a more recent

(as of 1993) invention.

[Jargon File]

(1995-03-13)