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C-z should suspend, not kill

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From: Don Koks
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 1994 22:24
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In GNU Emacs 19.25.1 of Wed Aug  3 1994 on pilot (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3)

Hi, as the title says, I'm writing about this modification to the latest
version of emacs.  On previous versions, C-z suspended emacs, which is very
useful.  In the latest version, C-z kills emacs, and this is disastrous:
especially since the job is just killed without modifications being saved,
and without any warning being given.  It is inevitable that at some stage we
can hit a C-z without meaning to, and all will be lost.  

Note that there is a misleading statement in the emacs tutorial:

``C-z is the usual way to exit Emacs, because it is always better not to
  kill the Emacs if you are going to do any more editing.    ''

Of course this is not so; the usual way to exit emacs is C-x C-c; beginners 
often exit by a C-z and wind up with lots of hash files and probably wondering
why their latest changes aren't saved.

Thanks for your time,
Don Koks
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