On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:23:38PM +0100, Freddy Vulto wrote: > Within the bash-completion testsuite, we're trying to synchronize in > between test cases using the string "^C", output by bash on receiving a > SIGINT. > This works fine for bash >= 4 (typing ^C is echoed as "^C"), but on > bash-3 typing ^C is echoed as a newline. Is there a setting to make > bash-3 echo "^C" then typing ^C, just like bash-4?
Lots of people in #bash on IRC want the exact opposite -- for bash to *not* print ^C when receiving an intr key in interactive mode, as it used to do before bash 4. Might be nice to make it a setting.
