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Dikitain posted...

To be fair, there is a good reason for that. ctrl+c is the shortcut to kill a process (end task in Windows). And that dates back farther then ctrl+c being "Copy to clipboard".

I was gonna say this but I can't remember if that's what it does in Linux or not.

also until recently, windows command prompt had its own issues, actually maybe related to the ctrl-c is copy issue. an administrative command prompt would for some reason not accept ctrl-c to terminate, so if you did something like setup a continuous ping (ping -t) you would not be able to stop it. (though it would still print out the stats when you hit it which I think I now realize must just be a part of ping.exe to listen for ctrl-c and print stats just before dying.)

instead of ctrl-c is copy, there's the mark and copy system instead (which is actually more useful anyways), but it also varies depending on which command prompt you're using.

I think they have smoothed this all out in Windows 10 now; this all mostly applied to XP