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I tried to use one of my Git aliases and accidentally opened the mg editor. I tried a lof of different keys and nothing seemed to close it. I eventually just used ctrlz to to send it to the background and then killed it with kill %1.

After that I went to check the manpages https://linux.die.net/man/1/mg, but the only quit related commands don't seem to do much:

C-g' keyboard-quit
C-x C-g' keyboard-quit

I'm probably missing something obvious, but how can it be closed?

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Ok, so I'm not sure what the ' means here, but pressing ctrlx and ctrlc actually worked:

C-x C-c' save-buffers-kill-emacs

save-buffers-kill-emacs
Offer to save modified buffers and quit mg.

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    The apostrophe is just dodgy formatting on the web site you’re looking at; properly-formatted versions of the mg man page don’t have them (look at man mg on your system too).
    – Stephen Kitt
    Commented Apr 8, 2021 at 21:36
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    Ty! Yeah man mg doesn't show that :)
    – ruohola
    Commented Apr 8, 2021 at 21:37
  • C-x means Control key + x key and C-c means Control key + c key.
    – Maria Campbell
    Commented Jul 9 at 13:05

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