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.

  • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    I will point out that in modern Windows terminals, Ctrl+C does copy selected text if there’s text selected; personally, I don’t see a problem with having it be context aware like that to make it behave more like how the majority of current users will be expecting based on how programs outside the CLI behave