Re: Mintty Hang on Exit after SSH on Windows 10

[Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>]

On Sep 17, 2015, at 3:05 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> 
>> what happens if you type "exit" instead of "ctl + a + d" ?
> What is ctl+a+d anyway? Both ctrl+a and ctrl+d in sequence?

It’s probably some bit of voodoo learned in a situation where Ctrl-D alone didn’t do what the OP wanted.  Ctrl-A goes to the beginning of the line in Bash’s default input mode, so it’s a no-op any time a subsequent Ctrl-D would exit the shell.

If there is input text at the shell prompt, Ctrl-A will go to the beginning of it, but Ctrl-D in that case does a backwards delete, like DEL on an IBM PC keyboard.  So again, there is no case I can think of where Ctrl-A + Ctrl-D is a better way to exit the shell than just Ctrl-D.
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