Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Yuri Khan]

On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 04:43, Karl Fogel <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Two of the first things I
> > always have to teach newcomers are `C-g' and `C-h l' :-).
>
> This property results from the keybinding space being tightly packed, of 
> course -- which is good for experts but rocky for newcomers.

It results from the fact that ‘keyboard-quit’ is on an obscure[^1] C-g
key rather than the intuitive[^1] Esc. And that results from Esc being
used in most terminals to mean Meta.

[^1]: from a novice’s point of view