/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)