Hermanverschooten
Quitting an iex session - any difference between System.halt/1 & CTRL-C?
Generally when I want to quit an iex session I use the double control-c dance.
For unknown reasons this refused to work earlier today but I am not getting into that.
Because of it though I tried System.halt/1 to exit the session and that worked.
Is there a difference between the 2 methods?
Else I could add something like this to my .iex.exs
defmodule IexExtra do
def exit, do: System.halt()
end
import IexExtra
Then I can end my sessions with a plain and simple exit
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acangiano
There are scenarios where CTRL-C twice could take down daemons running on a remote node. Not much harm if you are just messing around locally. However, if we are talking best practices, you’d probably want CTRL-G to bring up the User switch command menu, followed by q. Try h to see the options available.
gregvaughn
I learned ctrl-g q from an Erlanger early in my Elixir career and taught it to my fingers.
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