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by 1996 1930 days ago
> Either way, you want to generally avoid C-c for copy in terminals because it's already bound to the all important "send sigterm signal to foreground process". This is on a long list of ancient cruft that exists in terminal emulators and shells.

stty intr ^X

Then ctrl-c will no longer bother you, and your muscle memory will quickly adapt as X is very close to C

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I mapped intr to control g some 30 years ago. It's the interrupt key in emacs. I gave up after some months because I still had to use control c on any terminal that I didn't control.

By the way, I don't even know if I could paste with control c or control shift c back then. Maybe there was only middle click.

I could try again now and see what happens.

I didn't know you could do this before this thread this is a great idea.
Muscle memory doesn't help with "not quite what I'm used to, but it's very close". It doesn't handle conditional statements.