/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)