what you get, recognizing that most WYSIWYG implementations are imperfect. WYSINWOG, what you see is not what others get, a reminder that it's wise to consider that different browsers often render content in different ways. WYSINWYW, what you see is not what you want, suggesting that Microsoft Word often controls the user, not the other way around WYSIWYW, what you see is what you want, used to describe GNU TeXmacs editing platform. The abbreviation clarifies that unlike in WYSIWYG editors, the user is able to customize WYSIWYW platforms to act (possibly in part) as manual typesetting programs such as TeX or troff. YAFIYGI, you asked for it you got it, used to describe a text-command oriented document editing system that does not include WYSIWYG, in reference to the fact that users of such systems often ask for something they did not really want. It is considered to be the opposite of WYSIWYG. The phrase was first used in this context in 1983 in the essay Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal to describe the TECO text editor system, and began to be abbreviated circa 1993. See also Comparison of HTML editors List of HTML editors Website builder HTML editor Visual editor DWIM VisualEditor, an online rich-text editor for MediaWiki-powered wikis References External links The Jargon File entry for WYSIWYG What has WYSIWYG done to us? – Critical paper about the negative effects the introduction of WYSIWYG has had as of 1996. XML: WYSIWYG to WYSIWYM – A brief look at XML document authoring An article on existing XML authoring software (May 2005) ATPM.com's WYSIWYG: Is it What You Want? User interfaces Computing acronyms Word processors Presentation software Editing software