Yossi Kreinin <[email protected]> writes:
> Now comes the critical moment. The newbie is very annoyed, since it's
> probably the first encounter with a program that refuses to
> terminate.

I like Emacs's solution to this (on a terminal): the user will
eventually type backspace, which pops up a huge, dense, and
ultimately useless meta-help screen.

/s

Of course, the best is ed (from the Emacs jokes file):

golem> ed

?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?

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