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		Cerium on June 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018) I would like to add control-g to the list. It is frustrating for new emacs users that it can be easy to get stuck. Control-g is the general "quit" which will get you back to editing text from most annoying situations.

outworlder on June 10, 2019 | [–]

Mashing ESC also works.

ESC ESC ESC (translated from <escape> <escape> <escape>) runs the command keyboard-escape-quit (found in global-map), which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘simple.el’.

bitcrusher on June 10, 2019 | [–]

Yes, I definitely missed that one. Good catch.

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