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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 06:37:15 JST Lauren Weinstein

   I've seen people complain about how unobvious the exit command is from "vi" and "vim" [:q!]

   But that's nothing compared to TECO, which was (as I recall):

   <ESC><ESC>u [echoed as $$u]

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 06:37:11 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     @lauren That doesn't work for me in, still stuck in a Supdup to a ITS system from a Lisp Machine.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 06:37:54 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Joe

     @not2b C-z works just fine, gets back to the REPL.

     @lauren

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     Joe (not2b@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 06:37:55 JST Joe

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     @lauren Emacs is control x control c. Editors don't want to make it easy to leave.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 06:44:04 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     @lauren

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 06:44:06 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     • Alfred M. Szmidt

     @amszmidt I know, thanks to JEDGAR.

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     Joe (not2b@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 07:35:57 JST Joe

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     • Alfred M. Szmidt

     @amszmidt @lauren That pauses, does not exit.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 07:35:57 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Joe

     @not2b Neither does C-x C-c on the Lisp Machine.
     @lauren