Fifty-Ways-Editor

From: tbpic1@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Tim Pickett)
Newsgroups: monash.test
Subject: Re: Simon and Garfunkel (was Re: This is a test

umisef@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Bernd Meyer) writes:
>So let's go for "there must be 50 ways to leave your editor" :-)

All right, you've got a deal.  Memories of trying to quit an editor in
VMS that I didn't understand . . . (A bad song this for parodying. It
makes it sound like I can't make words scan, even though I'm referring
to the sheet music in front of me.)

The problem is all inside your ed(1), she sed(1) to me,
But the answer is emacs if you like C-x C-c,
I'm here to help you if you're struggling to use free(),
There must be fifty ways to leave your editor.

She said, `I hope your print job doesn't get dequeued,
I hope that you've stocked up lots of vending machine food.
But I'll repeat myself - have you gone and colon-q'd?
There must be fifty ways to leave your editor.
Fifty ways to leave your editor.'

Just press control-K, Ray,
Try double-Z, Fred,
You're still in insert, Bert,
So hit control-C.
Press meta-x, Lex,
Then type, `exit-quit-leave'
Or else just suspend, friend,
and kill(1) it with glee.

She said, `It grieves me now to stty(1) sane,
I wish there was somthing I could do to see your prompt again,'
I said, "I appreciate that,' and started to complain
About the fifty ways.

She said, `Why don't we both just sleep(1) on it tonight?
I'm sure in the morning you'll be sick of reading Byte.'
And then she warned me not to be a power-cycling neophyte,
There must be fifty ways to leave your editor.
Fifty ways to leave your editor.

(Repeat chorus)

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