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.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    I used to create tons of aliases and custom helper scripts. It became a real pain whenever I worked on a Linux server or something that didn’t have all my customizations. Now I only have one alias (l=“ls -Fhla”). Getting used to my snowflake system just made things more complicated for me…