Gripe: Use Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit

[Irmen de Jong]

Mike Maxwell wrote:

> that (actually, I translate ^D into a sequence of "cursor downs"), and
> hitting the Ctrl-D key therefore does not drop me out of Python.  More
> generally, it is probably not uncommon for someone to translate ^D into
> something else, using xmodmap or some such.  I need to kill the entire
> X-terminal to stop Python.

How the hell do you send a EOF then, to the many other applications that
read from stdin until EOF? (such as most standard unix tools)

(Also see Peter's reply.)

--Irmen