From: Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Subject: Re: Editor being ignored?
To: Scott Bennett <sbennett1990@gmail.com>
Cc: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>, gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 15:37:37 +0100

> 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.