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aeva

I accidentally opened emacs help how do I close emacs

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Matthijs De Smedt

@aeva It's working. If it's talking to you about the GPL you'll want to close emacs soon.

aeva

@anji I pressed some more buttons and now blocks are falling????? like in the terminal window

Matthijs De Smedt

@aeva That's the matrix. Please ignore. It's not real.

aeva

aha I got it! you close emacs with "ctrl-z"

AndyHat

@aeva Er, no, that just put it in the background, but it's still running ("fg" at the command line will probably get it back)

It's ctrl-x ctrl-c to quit, though you may want ctrl-x ctrl-s to save first.

aeva

@AndyHat I'm sure it's fine. It's only Eight Megs, it's not like it's going to be Constantly Swapping

AndyHat

@aeva I still shudder at the memories of when emacs' 8MB was half my RAM.

aeva

@AndyHat yeah that's 0.006103515625% of my available Megs. I have a lot of Megs.

Tangerine Pulsar

@aeva you have to run `fg` in your terminal after ctrl-z. If you dont do it fast enough you get a zombie process and ypull see it come back to life. Thats what the "z" stands for, zombie. "fg" is `finally grieved` so if you don't grieve the process it comes back to eat brains (use resources)

waimus

@aeva Loll what's with these text editors 😆

Just 5 minutes ago, I didn't know how to exit nano. Because it asks me which mode (MS-DOS or Mac) I want the save file as, I didn't understand what does `M-D` shortcut means 😆

Simon Richter

@aeva that would be a brilliant GUI paradigm, global undo stack and opening applications as actions.

ackack (Andy)

@aeva Don't you have to write a Lisp program to do that?

gkrnours

@aeva first time I opened vim, I didn't find any way to close beside pressing the power button for 7 seconds

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