Re: Controlling (La)TeX

"Jonathan Fine" <J.Fine@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Randy Yates" <yates@xxxxxxxx> wrote

I don't deny that there are applications that require multiple
ctrl-c's, but I conjecture that they are extremely rare and
contrary to standard usage.

Earlier today I posted a message showing that Python
run interactively requires ^C ^C to exit. Or more
exactly,
^C ^Z <return> # windows
^C ^D # unix

Ahh, OK - that's one out of ... thousdands?

I think this 'storm in a teacup' is because some of
us think of TeX being only a batch program, while
others realise that TeX has a occasionally useful
command line interface.

I am fully aware of TeX's command line interface. However, there are
often times when I don't give a damn about using TeX's command line
interface and simply want to ctrl-c out to the OS so I can get on with
optimizing my style file or whatever else I was doing.

Oh, here's another couple of rare and contrary programs.
The bash shell, and Windows CMD.EXE. These ignore
repeated ^C.

Hmmm. I have no idea what you are talking about. These are
shells, not applications.

As does Python. Which is useful, because
someone wanting to kill a program started in the
shell might 'press the ^C button' multiple times.

Again, you've given one example.
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