WYSIAYG

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  WYSIAYG /wiz'ee-ayg/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What
     You See Is _All_ You Get"; an unhappy variant of {WYSIWYG}. Visual,
     `point-and-shoot'-style interfaces tend to have easy initial learning
     curves, but also to lack depth; they often frustrate advanced users who
     would be better served by a command-style interface. When this happens,
     the frustrated user has a WYSIAYG problem. This term is most often used


     of editors, word processors, and document formatting programs. WYSIWYG
     `desktop publishing' programs, for example, are a clear win for creating
     small documents with lots of fonts and graphics in them, especially
     things like newsletters and presentation slides. When typesetting
     book-length manuscripts, on the other hand, scale changes the nature of
     the task; one quickly runs into WYSIAYG limitations, and the increased
     power and flexibility of a command-driven formatter like {{TeX}} or
     Unix's {{troff}} becomes not just desirable but a necessity. Compare
     {YAFIYGI}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  WYSIAYG
       
          {What You See Is All You Get}