Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Arthur Miller]

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
writes:

>> On May 30, 2020, at 10:44, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 
>> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
>> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
>> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>> 
>>>> What does C-g mean? Why the sequence C-g specifically? I think the
>>>> disconnect may be that C-g appears outwardly meaningless.
>> 
>> I will ask Greenblatt -- he might remember.
>
> I'm sure it's interesting for historical purposes but as far as such 
> keybindings
> are concerned the good thing is that we can find our own stories to remember
> them, and that's what matters.
>
> I can remember C-[g]et out of here, as I hinted, and now I can remember C-why
> did [G]reenblatt chose this one ? And C-life is certainly [g]reener on the 
> other
> side of the window, etc.
Ctrl - [G]NU (Control with GNU! :-))