Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Karl Fogel]

On 28 May 2020, excalamus@tutanota.com wrote:
>My understanding of the discussion prior to my interjection was that
>newcomers appear to misunderstand, are reluctant to use, or forget
>about 'C-g'.  I hope I didn't derail the convo into one of changing
>the physical location or the keybinding!  There's too much history to
>change 'C-g'.  For better or worse, it's what we have.

Agreed.  I've always just taught it as "C-g" -- as an axiomatic thing that 
should be memorized because it will be used frequently.