Why isn't it recommended to change the SIGINT shortcut from Ctrl+C to something like Ctrl+SHIFT+C? - eviltoast

I read a lot of answers online that its a bad idea, but the arguments did not make a lot of sense. “it’s a heavily ingrained part of the eco system”. Well if I can change it, what’s the deal?

It makes more sense to make an interrupt signal be the harder shortcut, and copy to be ctrl+C, matching other programs and platforms.

  • matcha_addict@lemy.lolOP
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    9 months ago

    Isn’t it enough just to instruct stty to take the new shortcut, instead of running a custom kernel? Is there anything left out by doing this?

    • callyral [he/they]@pawb.social
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      9 months ago

      idk it’s weird to have ^C, ^M and other control characters and have one be ctrl+shift+c and the other be control+m

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        9 months ago

        It shouldn’t be too difficult to remap them all to the ctrl+shift equivalent. I just have to make sure I get all of them.