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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
	Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Why use CTL-x CTL-c to quit instead of CTL-x CTL-q?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:15:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtube966.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANc-5Ux9v+2pUD38BWR_N2hgFuU-m39xGyF=cnKQA=AgRcU6Xw@mail.gmail.com> (Skip Montanaro's message of "Tue, 6 Apr 2021 07:34:58 -0500")

Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> writes:

> P.S. Do vi/vim users wonder why its key bindings don't correspond more
> strongly to common Windows, Mac or Unix/Linux interface standards? I
> rarely need to use vim, but if they changed the quit command (:q or
> :q!) I'd be completely lost. How would I ever get back to the shell
> prompt? Oh, right, C-z followed by kill(1).

I don't think so, as vi(m) is culturally more about the keys than the
software. People use vi(m) for vi(m), while many use Emacs for {org, magit,
whatever} and find Emacs to be an obstacle. Or that is at least how I
make sense of it.

-- 
	Philip K.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-06 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-06  2:49 Why use CTL-x CTL-c to quit instead of CTL-x CTL-q? Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-06  7:59 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-06 12:34 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-04-06 14:53   ` Skip Montanaro
2021-04-06 15:40     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-06 16:17     ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-06 15:15   ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2021-04-06 20:52     ` Jean Louis
2021-04-06 21:00       ` Jean Louis
2021-04-06 23:03         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-06 23:16           ` Skip Montanaro
2021-04-07 21:02       ` Francis Belliveau
2021-04-07 23:00         ` Philip Kaludercic

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