Regarding vi's modal nature ( a point of extreme frustration for new users ) some Emacs users joke that vi has two modes " beep repeatedly " and " break everything " . vi users enjoy joking that Emacs's key-sequences induce carpal tunnel syndrome, or mentioning one of many satirical expansions of the acronym EMACS, such as " Escape Meta Alt Control Shift " ( a jab at Emacs's reliance on modifier keys ) . or " Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping " ( in a time when that was a great amount of memory ) or " EMACS Makes Any Computer Slow " ( a recursive acronym like those Stallman uses ) or " Eventually Munches All Computer Storage ", in reference to Emacs's high system resource requirements.
