Whenever I want to quit something in Cygwin, Ctrl + Z usually does the trick.
What's the equivalent in the command prompt?
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Depends on what you mean by "quit something"; within Windows Ctrl+Z sends the EOF character, which could terminate a process if you're providing input, but otherwise will probably do nothing. Ctrl+C normally sends SIGINT to the foreground process, which should terminate it, but programs can respond however they like - ie, they can catch the signal but then ignore it. The command can also be remapped to other jobs (such that for a specific program it doesn't really send a signal) or ignored entirely. Ctrl+Break always sends SIGBREAK, which again should terminate the process, but unlike Ctrl+C cannot be remapped, but can still be ignored. This is probably what you need. Here's a source: MSDN article: CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK Signals. |
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It's Ctrl-C, if you want to cancel a long DOS command (e.g. |
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Ctrl-Z is a DOS/Windows convention, not a Cygwin convention. Try the same keystroke. |
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Ctrl-C |
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git diffctrl+z would allow me to quickly exit a large diff, but in DOSctrl+zandctrl+cboth do nothing. – erikvold Nov 23 '10 at 17:53