On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:17:23AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
I disagree - All programs should immediately terminate upon
"Ctrl-C".
Switching to a different mirror should be done by any arbitrary key.
Someone please fix emacs to terminate immediately on ctrl-C then ;)
Very large numbers of programs override ^C to be an internal interrupt,
including things like ftp. Others specifically ignore it (try using ssh
without that)