Bert Huijben wrote on Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 13:56:12 +0100: > Well.. Perhaps ^D works on your platform, but you will need other keys > on other platforms.
If different platforms use different keys then the message can use #ifdef to print the right advice. I expected readers to assume that, at the level of formality I was writing at. > > And ^D doesn’t abort, but signals successful EOF, so you need > a different description else. So we can say "exit" or "cancel" instead. (Let's figure this out when this becomes a patch.) Daniel > > > > Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Simply printing an > > informative message "svn: Reading a patch from standard input; press ^D > > to abort" should address the confusion without breaking the use-case of > > people who run 'patch' without arguments and then paste a patch from the > > clipboard. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Daniel > >
