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[Bug-apl] Ctrl-D and )off


From: Tobia Conforto
Subject: [Bug-apl] Ctrl-D and )off
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:06:27 +0100

Hello

Is there a reason why GNU APL does not exit on EOF, aka. Ctrl-D on cooked input? Every shell and interpreter I have ever used does so by default.

Maybe there are people who are used to typing "exit" or "logout" by hand, but for those of us who have always hit Ctrl-D to exit from any interactive line-oriented application, GNU APL's persistent refusal to do so is quite annoying ;-)

Even Bash, when it has background jobs still running (that would become orphaned or receive sighup) will print a warning at the first Ctrl-D, but comply without further ado at the second one.

If there is no valid reason, meaning that it's just some historic behaviour of APL interpreters, I would suggest changing it so that it's more coherent with the rest of GNU CLI tools. If instead there are valid reasons, could there be an option in the preferences file to enable it?

Tobia

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