Wiggins has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I realize this is archaic. Using Emacs editor with the RCS VC. I can't remember what the RCS 'end-of-comment' keystrokes are. All of my reference manuals are back in my office, that I haven't seen in 10 months.I have tried '.' '..' 'ZZ'. And searching the web brings up some usurping messaging system.

It is always better to have seen your target for yourself, rather than depend upon someone else's description.

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Re: (OT EMACS) (OT) VC-RCS end of comment
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 28, 2020 at 16:10 UTC
    Since it's not related to Perl you should mark the title as Off-Topic.

    I don't know these features, but keystrokes in emacs are bound to commands (interactive functions) which you can call with M-x COMMAND-NAME

    And if you call them explicitly via M-x , then emacs will tell you in the message area all available key-bindings for the next time.°

    Another approach is typing C-h m = M-x describe-mode

    It will list all major and minor modes in the current buffer together with all available key-bindings.

    HTH! :)

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

    update

    °) another approach according to C-h C-h

    w COMMAND   Display which keystrokes invoke the given command (where-is).

    so C-h w COMMAND-NAME will do too

    PS: C-h is usually also bound to F1 , hence F1 F1 will show you plenty of help options.

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Re: (OT) VC-RCS end of comment
by choroba (Cardinal) on Dec 28, 2020 at 19:37 UTC
    According to RevisionConstrolSystem (first hit on Google for "emacs rcs commit" for me), it should be C-c C-c (which is the same for many other version control systems).
    map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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