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Slight tangent, but what's with the capitalization of VI and VIM?

You surely know those are not acronyms, yet I've seen VIM miscapitalized many times, even by experienced users, and it's always slightly irritating.

EMACS, while historically accurate, also isn't common anymore.

If you're old enough, you may have started using it on a terminal that was all-caps.

The very first sentence of wikipedia: "Vim (/vɪm/;[5] a contraction of Vi IMproved)"

I see a way to get "VIM" out of that.

Though it looks like originally, in 1993, you'd have read: "Vi IMitation":