On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:50:29AM +0000, 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

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