/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)