Starting and Stopping Epsilon

You generally exit the editor with Ctrl-X Ctrl-Z, which runs the command exit-level. If in a recursive editing level, exit-level will not exit, but bring you back to the level that invoked the recursive edit. If you haven't saved all your files, Epsilon will display a list using bufed and ask if you really want to exit.

You may also use exit, Ctrl-X Ctrl-C, to exit the editor. It ignores any recursive editing levels. When given a numeric argument, Epsilon won't warn you about unsaved files, or write a session file (see the next section). It will simply exit immediately.

You can customize Epsilon's actions at startup by defining a hook function using EEL. See Starting and Finishing.

In Epsilon for Unix, an alternative to exiting Epsilon is to suspend it using the Alt-x suspend-epsilon command. This returns control to the shell that launched Epsilon. Use the shell's fg command to resume Epsilon. When Epsilon runs as an X program, this command instead minimizes Epsilon's window.

Standard bindings:

Ctrl-X Ctrl-Z    exit-level

Ctrl-X Ctrl-C    exit

   suspend-epsilon

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