Why this? Yet Another vi-based Editor?

Poizon writes "The guys from freehackers.org have begun developing yet another vi-like editor, called Yzis (speak: "Why this?"). Their primary goal is to seperate the text processing engine and the GUI, in order to be able to integrate it into window managers like KDE as a native component. They have previously worked on KVim, a Vim port to KDE, so chances are good that they will succeed with Yzis. Sounds interesting, doesn't it?"

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Re:What's with the abnormal names already?

[JabberWokky]

This is a backend, intended for usage within another project. In cases like that, it is better to have a distinctive set of characters for Google to find (a process I call 'kiboing'). Only developers are going to use this. Any end users will use it as part of an editor. Think KHTML versus Konqueror. KHTML is the engine, Konqueror the user facing application.

Of course, cars seem to be going towards alphabet soup in their naming (I swear there's a model with the suffix MFC). I'd say that there's no more market tested and carefully chosen names than car model names. The Chevy Nova notwithstanding. :) Maybe people are starting to like esoteric combinations of characters.

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Evan