How to Quit exaEdit

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How to Quit exaEdit

This lesson directly follows the previous one, in which you made some changes but did not give the command FILE to save them.

Please, try now to end this exaEdit session with the command

quit

end

Since exaEdit knows that the changed workfile has not been written back onto the disk so far, it tries to protect you from an ill-considered step. For this reason, exaEdit answers with the following hint and request:

Changes not saved

Press J or Y to stop:

When you now press any other (character) key - please, do so - exaEdit will cancel the processing of the QUIT or END command, put down exaEdit in the dialogue zone and wait for for the commands you give next.

If you had, in contrast to this, pressed one of the keys J or Y, exaEdit would have finished its working without saving your changes.

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