Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[T.V Raman]

"Philip K." <philip@warpmail.net> writes:


It's no more or no less intuitive than alt-F4 in "other platforms" that
people often label intuitive without thinking about it.

And for the record, the insert/replace key is a carry-over from
DOS word-processors of the early 80's.

> excalamus--- via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:  
>
>> What does C-g mean? Why the sequence C-g specifically? I think the
>> disconnect may be that C-g appears outwardly meaningless.
>
> I always assumed it was because C-g, when inserted literally had the
> same value as does the ASCII bell (BEL, or '\a' in C) character. When
> you open the "ascii" man-page on G and BEL even appear on the same
> line. So in some sense it's like C-m/C-i, that do the same as
> return/tab. 
>
> But I guess that's neither consistent, relavant or intuitive.

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