On 15 January 2018 at 16:16, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at> wrote: > Geoff Winkless wrote: >> Can we not just say "ctrl-D to quit" instead of \q? Doesn't that work >> everywhere? > > Not on Windows, as far as I know.
Well on Windows, Ctrl-C doesn't clear the input buffer either - it quits the whole thing. Perhaps different messages on different OSes? :) Others point out (elsewhere) that Ctrl-D fails if there's anything before it on the individual line, which is news to me. Is that a readline thing? Geoff