Can I customize Elixir iex to exit with ctrl-D?

Question

I know several ways to quit iex but I'd love to use ctrl-D like in other REPLs (e.g., node, irb.)

How can I customize iex to do this?

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '16 at 06:57

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As far as I know, this is not possible right now. IEx operations support comes directly from the Erlang shell, and this is not implemented in Erlang.

Most probably it won't be ever implemented either - this change was already proposed and rejected: https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/983

answered Jun 21 '16 at 06:57

michalmuskala

thanks for the link! I don't (yet) follow the reasoning behind the "no ctrl-D" decision but it's good to know that it's intentional. Customizing `iex` to exit on ctrl-D may not be wise but I'm still curious if it's possible. – jwfearn Jun 21 '16 at 15:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '17 at 17:35

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Not possible AKAIK, but one can use ctrl-\ to exit Iex and Erl.

answered May 10 '17 at 17:35

jwfearn

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