Re: Fwd: Re: [SLUG] EXIT COMMAND
This one time, at band camp, Herbert Xu said: Harry Ohlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess "ZZ" was intended to mean "the end", as in the end of the alphabet. I remember when I was at uni 20 years ago it was a lot of fun to walk up to someone's terminal and type "vi" to see if they could get out of it. Let's face it, it's not obvious that you should type ":" to get to a command line, either :-). Oh yeah, but it's even less obvious to get out of emacs :) killall emacs from a different terminal works fine for me ;) -- "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to using (o_ ' Windows NT for mission-critical applications." //\ -- What Yoda *meant* to say, Devin L. Ganger, scary.devil.monastery v_/_ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: Fwd: Re: [SLUG] EXIT COMMAND
Harry Ohlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess "ZZ" was intended to mean "the end", as in the end of the
alphabet. I remember when I was at uni 20 years ago it was a lot of fun to
walk up to someone's terminal and type "vi" to see if they could get out of
it. Let's face it, it's not obvious that you should type ":" to get to a
command line, either :-).
Oh yeah, but it's even less obvious to get out of emacs :)
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Re: Fwd: Re: [SLUG] EXIT COMMAND
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:50:29AM +, Herbert Xu wrote: Harry Ohlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess "ZZ" was intended to mean "the end", as in the end of the alphabet. I remember when I was at uni 20 years ago it was a lot of fun to walk up to someone's terminal and type "vi" to see if they could get out of it. Let's face it, it's not obvious that you should type ":" to get to a command line, either :-). Oh yeah, but it's even less obvious to get out of emacs :) $ emacs Buffers Files Tools Edit Search Mule Help Welcome to GNU Emacs, one component of a Linux-based GNU system. Get help C-h (Hold down CTRL and press h) Undo changes C-x u Exit Emacs C-x C-c [...] Damn those helpful programs that provide help to users upon startup. Obscurity. We need more of it! Anand -- Linux.Conf.Au -- http://linux.conf.au/ 17th - 20th January,-- Alan Cox, David Miller, Sydney, Australia -- Tridge, maddog and you? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: [SLUG] EXIT COMMAND
I guess "ZZ" was intended to mean "the end", as in the end of the alphabet. I remember when I was at uni 20 years ago it was a lot of fun to walk up to someone's terminal and type "vi" to see if they could get out of it. Let's face it, it's not obvious that you should type ":" to get to a command line, either :-). Oh yeah, but it's even less obvious to get out of emacs :) Not if you do lots of yoga. It's easy to get the Ctrl-Alt-Meta-VulcanSleeperHold key combination happening then :-). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Fwd: Re: [SLUG] EXIT COMMAND
ZZ doesn't mean anything. :wq means :(command) w (write) q (quit) I guess "ZZ" was intended to mean "the end", as in the end of the alphabet. I remember when I was at uni 20 years ago it was a lot of fun to walk up to someone's terminal and type "vi" to see if they could get out of it. Let's face it, it's not obvious that you should type ":" to get to a command line, either :-). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
