Quitting IEx

There are two ways to quit out of an Interactive Elixir shell. The standard way is with Ctrl-c. This gives you a list of options, one of which is a for abort. This will terminate your IEx session and drop you back on the command line where the process started.

Additionally, IEx also understands Ctrl-\ which is control key that will terminate just about any interactive environment. This command will cause IEx to immediately exit with no prompt.

Note: IEx does not, however, respond to Ctrl-d.

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