Chapman Flack <c...@anastigmatix.net> writes: > On 01/17/18 06:50, Geoff Winkless wrote: >> Having said all that, has anyone suggested grabbing and writing out >> using the "stty quit" value? That appears to work whatever level >> you're at, readline-or-not, mid-line or not. It wasn't even something >> I was aware of.
> Well, the usual use of SIGQUIT is to abort a process while generating > a core dump so it can be post-mortem debugged, and the abort is immediate > without any exit hooks in the process having a chance to execute, so > maybe it isn't a habit we would want to inculcate for general use. In addition to that, there almost certainly isn't a Windows equivalent. (I'm still not very sure which of ^C and ^D have Windows equivalents.) regards, tom lane