vi and emacs are two stable dipoles of CLI Lindy editors.

· Bits and Bobs 4/1/24

Lindy hear meaning: demonstrated to be extremely resilient.

If you start with emacs you can't get to vi, except with a subtraction operation.

Although apparently there are two concrete implementations of vi that are fully inside emacs.

In those conditions, the emacs shell fades away in importance and the internal vi takes over.