New ctrl-c handling and NEXT merged to MASTER

[Daniel Shahaf]

Sebastian Spaeth wrote on Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 19:48:38 +0100:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just pushed commit 0ccf06d5e631db2a5e139d63335134d983591487
> 
>     Implement clean CTRL-C termination
>     
>     Previously, we would simply bail out in an ugly way, potentially leaving
>     temporary files around etc, or while writing status files. Hand SIGINT
>     and SIGTERM as an event to the Account class, and make that bail out
>     cleanly at predefined points. Stopping on ctrl-c can take a few seconds
>     (it will e.g. finish to transfer the ongoing message), but it will shut
>     down cleanly.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de>
> 
> Consider this a small, but important cleaning that had been requested by
> someone during the last year. And as this has the potential to leave
> around half-written temp files, I decided that it was worth it. (and an
> easy start into the new year).

Sounds good.  Once I upgrade I'll give it a spin; I have been used
to use ^\ (SIGQUIT) to quickly kill (and maybe restart) offlineimap.