(Resending because I forgot to cc the list.) I agree that this is annoying, especially for new and casual users.
The only good reason I can think of for APL not exiting on Ctrl-D is that if you accidentally hit Ctrl-D, you could accidentally lose the whole contents of your workspace. At least in GNU APL, if you hit Ctrl-D you get a message telling you how to leave the interpreter. Jay. On 17 December 2014 at 20:06, Tobia Conforto <tobia.confo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
