YAFIYGI
<abuse> /yaf'ee-y*-gee/ You asked for it, you got it.
The command-oriented ed/vi/nroff/TeX style of word processing 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 "Real Programmers don't use Pascal"; the
acronym is a more recent (as of 1993) invention.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-13)
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