tangent re: "i wanna learn a thing" 

@Luna @multiple_creatures At least ":wq" makes sense! Like a lot of programs do : for commands, then write-quit (because save-quit would be slightly more annoying to type).

Vs. Emacs' ^X, ^C. Like, what? That has /no/ equivalent among like, anything else.

tangent re: "i wanna learn a thing" 

@IceWolf hee yeah, i certainly have some pretty gnarly muscle memory because of emacs

if i tried, i probably could defend its reasons, but the fact that i would even need to means that it's archaic and unclear

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