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Wait really? I'm a lifelong emacs user too[0] but it only tells you how to exit if you open it without a filepath. If you're in a file because EDITOR was set to
by 3pt14159 7y ago
Wait really? I'm a lifelong emacs user too[0] but it only tells you how to exit if you open it without a filepath. If you're in a file because EDITOR was set to emacs by some other person and you try to exit it just says "C-c" or "C-c C-c is undefined" when it should just tell you how to exit. Or even better why doesn't it just exit on "C-c C-c"?
[0] Well I might write my own emacs-inspired, ruby enabled editor one day, but that's another story.
- downerending 7y agoThat's true. If you tried Control-H, you'd get a lead. Unless of course that was mapped to your main backspace key, which sometime happened in the bad old days. As to why Control-C doesn't just exit the editor, I suppose it was generally considered to be a bad idea. And in the case of emacs, it might take five or ten minutes to restart. :-) (It's worth noting also that GNU emacs ran on many platforms, some of which for which Control-C was not any kind of "kill my process" character.)