When you finish editing, you have to quit. MicroEMACS never writes out a file because it thinks that this is the right thing to do. However, it will attempt to protect you from forgetting to do so.

C-X C-C (quit)

This is the basic quit command. MicroEMACS exits, returning control to the shell. If there are any changed buffers that have not been written out, it will ask for permission to quit. Supplying an argument to C-X C-C makes the command quit unconditionally, without asking for confirmation. The value of the argument is not important. On PCs, this function is also bound to F4.

C-C (spawn-cli)

This command suspends the execution of MicroEMACS, and runs a command interpreter in a subjob. When the subjob terminates, the screen is cleared and repainted.

Subjobs are implemented in FlexOS, PC-DOS, VMS, and UNIX-like operating systems, such as Linux. Users of CP/M are out of luck.

Exit the command interpreter and return to MicroEMACS with one of the following:

• On VMS enter the logout command.

• If you are using the c-shell or bash on Unix-like operating systems, enter the fg command.

• On all other systems enter the exit command.

C-X C (jeff-exit)

This is a slightly more elaborate quit command. If the current buffer has been changed, C-X C saves the contents of the buffer in the associated file (it gets an error if there is no associated file). If the current buffer has not been changed, C-X C acts like C-C.