Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

     > > 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 suspect there is no deep meaning behind it, the BEL was common way
back then to mean abort, or alert.  TECO and DDT both used C-g for
abort, and since DDT commands where some sort of a C-<ch> sequence it
probobly just made sense..