Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

>>>> We made this very simple a few years ago: Just keep typing C-g.
>>>> I guess these users don't know that.
>>> 
>>> Sometimes they know that, but it's still stressful for them to have to
>>> do it. 
> For contrast, <escape> clearly means to retreat and is often used in other 
> applications to cancel (e.g. vi).  C-h is related to help via the 'h', which 
> makes it easy to learn/remember. 
> 
> So why 'g'? 

[g]et out of here ?


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