/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)