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Comment by VT_Drew | Hacker News Reader

I will give Emacs a try once I figure out how to exit Vim.

Most interactive programs will succumb to this exit recipe:

  Ctrl-Z
  kill %1

Suspend to shell, kill job. Anything that won't suspend with Ctrl-Z should not be used.

(Developers who flout important conventions of this sort should be punished with disuse of their projects.)

There are GUI versions of emacs too, some on platforms where they are not expected to respond to Ctrl-Z.

The GUI versions have menus and toolbars and whatnot, you don't need to Ctrl-Z out of those in the first place

Those have little 'x' buttons in the upper corner though.

Only nano and mcedit zealots are allowed to joke about :wq. The first time I started emacs I had to kill -9 it :p