On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 15:37:37 +0100, Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org> wrote:
> > That sounds like an awesome project! Good luck to you, however I actually
> > don't prefer emacs-the-editor. I like the command-line editing mode in
> > xterm(1) to be emacs style, but I cut my unix teeth on vi(1) so that's
> > my preferred editor.  
> 
> export VISUAL=vi
> export EDITOR=vi
> set -o emacs
> 
> in your .profile would do what you want.

This did exactly what I wanted! Thanks for pointing this out.