Here's a few extra ideas: For Emacs users, set up a config file similar to Easy Mode Vim (e.g. C-c to copy, C-v to paste - wait until they start C-xing). Also

Here's a few extra ideas: For Emacs users, set up a config file similar to Easy Mode Vim (e.g. C-c to copy, C-v to paste - wait until they start C-xing). Also for Emacs users, set up evil-mode. Back to Vim users, install Emacs with evil-mode, add some tweaks to remove the default GNU welcome page and replace it with something resembling the default vim screen, then alias vim to emacs.[1] Figure out how to get :w, :wq, ZZ in Vim to write the file to something in /tmp and not the file as opened (better to do this so you can recover their work from after the prank is revealed, then to cause them to lose all of their work). Alias vim/emacs to VSCode - that'll really intern their strings. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838411 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838411