what are some problems with quitting programs in the terminal you’ve run into? so far I have:

- not knowing how to quit vim (or some other program)
- programs not responding to ctrl c
- a background program being killed when you close your shell

what am i missing?

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Ending up with screen-inside-screen and having to figure out how to detach the inner one.

Having a program leave the terminal in some weird state when killed (either without echo, or in that weird alternate charset mode that can be fixed by _outputting_ ^O).

Not having job control at all (i.e. can't kill or suspend anything that I start in foreground) in some kinds of emergency shells (probably due to something like lists.busybox.net/pipermail/bu).

Problems with terminals that are misconfigured so that control sequences are misinterpreted (most recently I had the issue when sshing to something that didn't understand `TERM=rxvt-unicode`).

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