On 26 Feb 2017 20:48 -0500, from usotsuki at buric.co (Steve Nickolas): >> On 26 February 2017 at 12:28, Andy Kosela wrote: >>> Are you sure it was emacs? Most probably it was pico, which was the default >>> editor for pine. >> >> Ah well, I am not sure -- that betrayed my emacs bias. I saw ^X^C and >> assumed emacs. > > Huh. pico's exit is just ^X, not ^X^C. Yes. Pico and Nano have pretty much the same key bindings for everything that both have (there may be some minor exception), and ^X triggers an exit. If there are any unsaved changes, it will ask what to do; hitting ^C at that point brings you right back to the editor. Wikipedia puts Pine's birth at 1989, and public announcement in 1992, so that would be reasonably believable with DOS boxen as terminals... -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael at kjorling.se “People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup)