How Emacs beat vi in the Editor Wars

Just before the heat death of the universe, the last detectable message from the last computing structure dissolving into an entropic goo will be "emacs rules vi drools". There is something oddly comforting in that fact for those of us of a certain age...

Even with tongue firmly in cheek, the argument that browsers' casual adoption of emacs bindings signalling victory over vim (as if non-modal browsers had a choice) is meritless.