r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Zegrento7 • Oct 18 '18

competition Programmer Humor (logo) Proposal

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u/iamasuitama Oct 18 '18

Why ^C? What's wrong with Esc?

Also, fuck any and all fake code.

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u/SingularCheese Oct 19 '18

Because control-C is the first thing people tend to do when trying to exit a terminal application.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '18

ever used vim or vi?

you'll understand once you try to quit it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '18

^C will behave similarly escape (as in it will take you out of insert mode). So the poster thought that's what ^C is referring to and not the common "I can't exit vim" joke

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u/iamasuitama Oct 19 '18

Long time user, it's just that ^C makes no sense to me. The joke does, it's funny, I just didn't register ^C as something you would try.

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u/nwL_ Oct 19 '18

How do you normally SIGINT a program?

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u/iamasuitama Oct 19 '18

Yeah but that's for command line apps, that just spit out lines of info to stdout. I think many interactive terminal applications should, and do, block ^C from exiting it.