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Hmm - I wonder how you'd break out of
while (1);in node? Ctrl-C doesn't work (i'd assumed it did!).Imagine you typed
while(1);in Espruino and you then wanted to stop execution, what would you actually press that you'd expect would break out? For me it'd be Ctrl+C.If you're looking at how other CLIs work: if you're using Bash/sh/etc and you run a program, maybe
cat, and you want to exit it you pressCtrl+C, which sends SIGINT. If you do a loop and want to break out in Python, you pressCtrl+C. It's the obvious way to break out of what's running.Perhaps what's needed is actually to make
Ctrl-Cclear the line, but if Espruino hasn't returned to the console and handled it within ~200ms, it properly breaks out of what it's doing?