Re: basic question: going back to dired

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> It is as arbitrary as C-c to killing a program, [...]

That's exactly because it is arbitrary that C-c is as linked to
killing a program as you believe.  It all depend on you stty setting:

[pjb@hubble ~]$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 62; columns 159; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = 
<undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R;
werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff 
-iuclc -ixany -imaxbel -iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt 
echoctl echoke
[pjb@hubble ~]$ stty intr ^A
[pjb@hubble ~]$ sleep 60
^A
[pjb@hubble ~]$ stty intr ^C
[pjb@hubble ~]$ sleep 60
^C
[pjb@hubble ~]$ 

And yes, C-c is bound to intr = interrupt (SIGINT), not to quit which
is the true process kill (SIGKILL).

C-c is INTERRUPT!  Not kill.


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