'mdb: are you sure you want to quit?' prompt is inconsistent and annoying

[ulidtko]

Very simple: enter mdb query, then try to exit in the fastest possible way.

My best is four keystrokes, which is way over the top. ^D from query, once more ^D from mdb (this is the point where ideally we're done), now the stupid prompt appears, and we have no other way than to hit y and ↵.

?- 
mdb> mdb: are you sure you want to quit? y

I call this kind of prompt "stupid" because it makes no sense: anyone sane would save everything valuable before trying to exit from a program. Exactly like in this question of mine, but for R. A surprising amount of people are annoyed by this stupid prompt.

It's also inconsistent, because ^D from query doesn't prompt, while ^D from mdb does.

Finally, I accept the argument that the primary purpose of the prompt is to prevent data loss on accidental EOF input. However, I'm not convinced that intentionally tripping up users is worth the purpose in case of mdb; what data is there to lose?.. And what if I accidentally input an rm * in my shell — who's there to blame for data loss except me and my, so to say, sloppy input habits?

Four-keystroke exit does seriously kick me, up to the point that I want to kill -9 instead of exiting like a civil.

[zsomogyi]

You may find this prompt stupid, but lots of people find it prevents them from losing
the state of a possibly-quite-long debugger session due to a typo.

If you find this stupid, use "quit -y", or an alias that expands to "quit -y".

I find it strange that you object to typing four characters, but then wrote all the text above
to complain about it.

[ulidtko]

lots of people find it prevents them from losing... due to a typo

How much evidence do you actually have for that claim?

For as you can see, at least 47 people agree to the contrary in the exactly similar case for R.

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Then, EOF input shouldn't be ever considered a typo, I explained that above. If I'm not capable of using the keyboard reliably, my best bet would be to avoid any shortcuts at all, and exit via explicit quit. I'm fine with quit prompting "are you sure?".

But If I do already hold the Control key, it means I know what I'm doing. Programs re-asking "are you sure?" on shortcuts intentionally slow me down -- that defeats the whole point of keyboard shortcuts!

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I find it strange that you object to typing four characters, but then wrote all the text above to complain about it.

It's a pity I need to explain this. Complaint is written once and for all; extra keystrokes (+ angry return wear) occur every time every one exits the shell. Is that clear?