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Shortening the rope

Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 3, 2009 21:01 UTC (Fri) by evgeny (guest, #774)
Parent article: Shortening the rope

> In truth, it's clear that a number of reasonably capable users have, at times, lost work as a result of hitting this key sequence by mistake.

Heh, just yesterday did that trying to kill an unresponsive X server in a Qemu box ;-)


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Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 4, 2009 12:11 UTC (Sat) by RobWilco (guest, #40828) [Link]

Yep, me too, and just yesterday too.

Indeed, it is the lobby of virtual machines user (especially win2003 guest) which brought this issue to the table, not the Emacs lobby users.

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