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.

    • matcha_addict@lemy.lolOP
      9·
      9 months ago

      Ctrl+Insert gets pretty close, but some laptops, including Mac books, don’t have insert on their keyboard. 😔

        • matcha_addict@lemy.lolOP
          3·
          9 months ago

          Command+C on Mac books work, yes, But that still means inconsistencies across different platforms. I am forced to use macos for work, and I try to unify my shortcuts across the two platforms. Otherwise it’s disorienting using my personal computer after a day of work

          • murtaza64@programming.dev
            1·
            9 months ago

            My solution for this has been on my Linux machine, using keyd, to swap alt and super, and map super+c, super+v to copy and paste. (I also map super+L, super+R, super+T and super+W in Firefox to the control- equivalents using keyd’s per-application bindings functionality)

    • Papamousse@beehaw.org
      1·
      9 months ago

      Yep, I’m using ctrl-c and q and s and d and z etc for almost 40 years now, it would be difficult to change those habits

  • z00s@lemmy.world
    281·
    9 months ago

    The “why” doesn’t matter. If you don’t like it, change the shortcuts on your own machine. That’s the beauty of Linux.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
    281·
    9 months ago

    It is a bad idea to get used to using Ctrl+C as copy on the terminal because then you will accidentally abort programs all over with muscle memory on systems you haven’t twisted beyond recognition customized.

    • matcha_addict@lemy.lolOP
      9·
      9 months ago

      That’s a valid point. I already have a similar but not exactly the same problem when I move between linux and macos, where the shortcuts don’t really match or work.

      The difference between ctrl+C on the browser and ctrl+C on the terminal already disorients me. I’d rather the shortcut work the 99% of the time I’m on my own machines.

      I think I’ll just have to really keep this in mind when not using my own machine.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        I used to create tons of aliases and custom helper scripts. It became a real pain whenever I worked on a Linux server or something that didn’t have all my customizations. Now I only have one alias (l=“ls -Fhla”). Getting used to my snowflake system just made things more complicated for me…

  • 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.