I prefer emacs too, but:
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Emacs's
C-x C-c
isn't likely any more able to leverage knowledge from other environments than vi's:wq
. I guess you could be using a graphical version of emacs and use the menus. -
On my system, current versions of vim do appear, by default, to show a screen telling you how to quit. A test of
emacs -Q
to bring up a default emacs environment in a terminal environment doesn't appear to do that. It instead directs you to the "C-h C-a
about emacs page", which isn't likely to help beginners. It probably should at least reference the top-level help atC-h C-h
or the tutorial atC-h C-t
. -
There are text-mode menus in emacs, but I normally use emacs in the terminal with the menus hidden and don't use them.
F10
will cause them to drop down, but I'm not sure how intuitive that is. looks further Okay, usingemacs -Q
to test a vanilla environment, it does look like the menus are visible by default in the terminal. If you're in an environment with mouse support enabled - it looks likegpm
in a Linux console works, but curiously-enough, it doesn't seem to work inurxvt
,xterm
, orgnome-terminal
for me -- but at least in some terminal environments, you can use the mouse to operate the terminal-mode menus, so I guess ease-of-use point for emacs there.
EDIT: It does look like there's a GTK-based vim
that has graphical menus these days, so vim
can probably do the menu thing too, but at least on my system, when I launch it, I get a regular terminal vim instance.