[Reportbug-maint] Bug#564939: ^C interrupts should interrupt immediately

[Sandro Tosi]

forcemerge 548533 564939
thanks

Hello jidanni,
thanks for your report, but it's a duplicate of 548533.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 22:14,  <jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 4.10
> Severity: minor
>
> Why do you not allow ^C interrupts to quit the program immediately?
> Why do you require the user to hit a RET in order for his ^C's to be recognized?

We didn't do anything, and we believe it's related to the current
introduction of libreadline6 (and python linking against it) as
reported here: #556583 .

> $ reportbug
> ...
> Select mode: [novice]^C^C^C^C^C^C^C RET
> reportbug: exiting due to user interrupt.
> $
>
> Many users won't know the RET secret, or "^Z kill %", and will end up
> stuck and need to kill their whole shell window etc.

I know it's unpleasant, but we can do nothing about it.

Regards,
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