Greetings, Just my two cents...... I really prefer the way GNU APL works now. I can't tell you how many times I've exited an app with too many ^D's because of app or line delay only to unintentionally exited the entire SSH and command shell too! GNU APL works the way APL has always worked - and for good reason. The only exception I can think of is using GNU APL in some sort of batch mode, perhaps with a special argument.
Thanks. Blake On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Tobia Conforto <tobia.confo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello > > Is there a reason why GNU APL does not exit on EOF, aka. Ctrl-D on cooked > input? Every shell and interpreter I have ever used does so by default. > > Maybe there are people who are used to typing "exit" or "logout" by hand, > but for those of us who have always hit Ctrl-D to exit from any interactive > line-oriented application, GNU APL's persistent refusal to do so is quite > annoying ;-) > > Even Bash, when it has background jobs still running (that would become > orphaned or receive sighup) will print a warning at the first Ctrl-D, but > comply without further ado at the second one. > > If there is no valid reason, meaning that it's just some historic > behaviour of APL interpreters, I would suggest changing it so that it's > more coherent with the rest of GNU CLI tools. If instead there are valid > reasons, could there be an option in the preferences file to enable it? > > Tobia >
