Emacs Problem

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Thu Jan 16 00:19:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:

> At 03:39 PM 1/15/2003, Scott Purcell wrote:
> >Hello,
> >I got ambitious during lunch and installed emacs. At the cmd line I type in emacs and all works great.
> >I got one problem though, it will not quit.
>
> Yeah, so?  What's the problem?  Emacs is the end-all of software, right?  It's
> supposed to do everything except make your coffee in the morning, no?  So
> *why* would you *ever* want to quit from it? ;-) ;-) ;-)
>
> No flames or editor-wars, please! :-)

As one of my friends would say:
- It doesn't make my coffee in the morning? :-o Oh, no!  What have I been
  drinking all these years?
And, as my other friend would say:
- I wish I could just boot emacs as an operating system...
	Igor
P.S. Personally, I use vim :q  No disrespect for Emacs intended.

> [snip]

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