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Ctrl-C is reserved for copy into the clipboard ... Stopping the program instead is highly counter-intuitive and will result in angry users.



Have you really never cancelled a program in a terminal session?


I think it was a joke. The style, clearly, almost pedantically stating an annoyance as fact, does suggest that.


Definitely yanking us around.


Probably was an r/whoosh moment on my part




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