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Getting Out of Emacs

There are two ways to get out of Emacs: you can kill the Emacs job, which exits permanently, or you can suspend it, which permits you to reenter the Emacs process later. (In a graphical environment, you can of course simply switch to another application without doing anything special to Emacs, then switch back to Emacs when you want.)

• Killing Emacs:		Exiting Emacs irreversibly.
• Suspending Emacs:		Exiting Emacs reversibly.