I read a lot of answers online that its a bad idea, but the arguments did not make a lot of sense. “it’s a heavily ingrained part of the eco system”. Well if I can change it, what’s the deal?

It makes more sense to make an interrupt signal be the harder shortcut, and copy to be ctrl+C, matching other programs and platforms.

  • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 months ago

    I’ve done it for about a decade without anything bad ever happening.

    I have rebound copy and paste to ctrl+c and ctrl+v in konsole and bound the interrupt to ctrl+x using stty intr ^x

    Also I keep it consistent across ssh sessions by using Xpipe.

    I honestly wasn’t even aware that anybody thought it might be bad for any reason.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Why? It seems like you would want to kill a program more than copying text. Is it just a habit thing?

      • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        1. Not in my workflow. Usually programms terminate after doing their job. And I copy the output all the time to google for stuff or to put it in another terminal or another command.

        2. Ctrl+X is not significantly more difficult to press than Ctrl+C. But Ctrl+Shift+C is.