Maybe there's been a recent change, but I use C-g all the time every day to get out of prompts, etc.
For me, C-x u opens a buffer for undo-tree, not sure if that's what you meant or not.
It's possible I customized for C-g and or C-x u; I haven't changed much in .emacs.d/personal recently, except for adding a few scripts.
In any case, glad you gave it another shot, but perhaps it isn't your cup of tea. It's great that Emacs is (and has long been) able to adapted to a variety of needs and preferences.
Yeah I don't want an undo-tree bound like that, because when I'm hitting undo, I just want a quick response. Default emacs behaviour is what I want.
And C-g, yeah, I don't know what it was doing. It got really weird.
In general this thing seems to want to open buffers all over the place. It's... visually confusing and I kept losing cursor focus in the task I was trying to focus on.
For me, C-x u opens a buffer for undo-tree, not sure if that's what you meant or not.
It's possible I customized for C-g and or C-x u; I haven't changed much in .emacs.d/personal recently, except for adding a few scripts.
In any case, glad you gave it another shot, but perhaps it isn't your cup of tea. It's great that Emacs is (and has long been) able to adapted to a variety of needs and preferences.