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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Why isn't it recommended to change the SIGINT shortcut from Ctrl+C to something like Ctrl+SHIFT+C? (lemy.lol)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 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.