On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 01:24:45PM -0500, Chapman Flack wrote: > On 01/15/18 11:56, David Fetter wrote: > >> And while trying to find the EOF setting in libreadline might get > >> messy, you're already assuming that ctrl-C hasn't been knobbled > >> using stty intr. Unless you want to go searching for that too? > > > > I'm pretty sure changing either or both of those settings would > > qualify as pilot error, and pretty abstruse pilot error at that. > > I once worked in a shop where the EOF default had in fact been changed > to ^Z on the Unix boxen, for consistency with Windows. I may have had > a personal opinion about it not unlike yours, but the pilot at the time > being my boss, I just made it my business to cheerfully explain it every. > time. it. needed. explaining. > > So, it's a thing that can happen.
Of course it is. It's just not a thing I believe we should perturb our code or documentation to accommodate. Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
