Vigor is a clone of
vivi is a family of screen-oriented text editors which share common characteristics, such as methods of invocation from the operating system command interpreter, and characteristic user interface features...
for
UNIXUnix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
that adds, as a joke, a cruel
parodyA parody , in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
of Clippit, the
Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft Office is an office suite of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Microsoft Office was introduced by Microsoft in 1989 for Mac OS, with a version for Windows in 1990...
assistant. The name is a portmanteau of vi (the name of the original text editor) and
IgorIgor is the traditional stock character or cliché hunch-backed assistant or butler to many types of villain, such as Count Dracula or a mad scientist, familiar from many horror movies and horror movie parodies, the Frankenstein series and Van Helsing films in particular.-Origins:An early...
, Dr. Frankenstein's assistant. Vigor was written by Joel Ray "Piquan" Holveck in
Sunnyvale, CaliforniaSunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760....
, and the logo for Vigor was created by Tom Mulder. Vigor has spawned ports to other text editors as well, including
VimVim is a text editor released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 for the Amiga computer. The name "Vim" is an acronym for "Vi IMproved" because Vim was created as an extended version of the vi editor, with many additional features designed to be helpful in editing program source code.Vim is cross-platform...
. There is also a Vigor visualization plugin for the audio player
XMMSThe X Multimedia System is a free software audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems.- History :...
.
The idea for Vigor originated in the
User FriendlyUser Friendly is a daily webcomic about the staff of a small, fictional internet service provider, Columbia Internet. The strip's humor tends to be centered around technology jokes and geek humour....
on-line comic strip by J.D.
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Vigor is a clone of
vivi is a family of screen-oriented text editors which share common characteristics, such as methods of invocation from the operating system command interpreter, and characteristic user interface features...
for
UNIXUnix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
that adds, as a joke, a cruel
parodyA parody , in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
of Clippit, the
Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft Office is an office suite of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Microsoft Office was introduced by Microsoft in 1989 for Mac OS, with a version for Windows in 1990...
assistant. The name is a portmanteau of vi (the name of the original text editor) and
IgorIgor is the traditional stock character or cliché hunch-backed assistant or butler to many types of villain, such as Count Dracula or a mad scientist, familiar from many horror movies and horror movie parodies, the Frankenstein series and Van Helsing films in particular.-Origins:An early...
, Dr. Frankenstein's assistant. Vigor was written by Joel Ray "Piquan" Holveck in
Sunnyvale, CaliforniaSunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760....
, and the logo for Vigor was created by Tom Mulder. Vigor has spawned ports to other text editors as well, including
VimVim is a text editor released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 for the Amiga computer. The name "Vim" is an acronym for "Vi IMproved" because Vim was created as an extended version of the vi editor, with many additional features designed to be helpful in editing program source code.Vim is cross-platform...
. There is also a Vigor visualization plugin for the audio player
XMMSThe X Multimedia System is a free software audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems.- History :...
.
The idea for Vigor originated in the
User FriendlyUser Friendly is a daily webcomic about the staff of a small, fictional internet service provider, Columbia Internet. The strip's humor tends to be centered around technology jokes and geek humour....
on-line comic strip by J.D. "Illiad":
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000108
Vigor is currently hosted on
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. Released under a
BSD licenseBSD licenses represent a family of permissive free software licenses. The original was used for the Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix-like operating system after which the license is named. The original owners of BSD were the Regents of the University of California because BSD was first...
, Vigor is
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.
See also
- List of text editors
- Comparison of text editors
This article provides a basic feature comparison for several text editors. Additional feature details are available from the Category of text editor features and from the individual products' articles...