Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 12:01:37PM +0100, Daniel Verite wrote:
> Also, the fact that Control-D can quit in the middle of a
> multiline query without any confirmation is a usability problem, because
> you can always fat-finger a Ctrl+key. By comparison, bash doesn't
> accept it and emits the same error as if a script was improperly
> terminated. Example:
>
> $ cat '
> > [Hit Ctrl+D here] bash: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> bash: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> $

I just researched this. In bash, it seems Ctrl+C and Ctrl+D do kind of
the same thing, i.e. exit command:

$ echo '
> bash: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
bash: syntax error: unexpected end of file
$ echo '
> ^C
$

so the question is whether it is wise that we have ^C and ^D do
different things on psql, or they should do the same thing. I doubt we
would want to change ^D, so it would be changing ^C to exit, except we
use ^C to cancel a query and return you to a prompt, so I don't see how
we can change that either.

In summary, we are probably can't improve this.

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