<i>&quot;but even then I find that a top google search for JOE is &quot;How do you save and exit?&quot; People can&#x27;t seem to see the &quot;Hit ^K H for help&quot; in the top-right corner&quot;</i><p>I would see that as a very strong hint that the time when Wordstar keybindings made sense in an editor with &quot;no learning curve at all&quot; has passed.<p>I think you should very seriously consider either having control-S for save or dropping the idea to compete with editors without a learning curve. If you want to keep aiming at the low learning curve, Google tells me that key bindings are highly configurable, so what&#x27;s wrong with shipping with ones beginning users will be familiar with?<p>If you want to keep Wordstar bindings by default, I think your new message can be improved.<p>I fear that people who read <i>&quot;Use Ctrl-K X to save&#x2F;exit&quot;</i> may think that Ctrl-K X will give them <i>the option to save changes</i>, and then exit. That can put them up for a huge disappointment the first time they want to exit without saving.<p>IMO, the use of &quot;abort&quot; for &quot;exit without saving&quot; doesn&#x27;t help there, either. For me, &quot;abort&quot; signals abnormal termination, but there is nothing wrong with exiting without saving.