SBT stop run without exiting

scala sbt terminate
dsg picture dsg · Feb 28, 2011 · Viewed 36.2k times · Source

How do you terminate a run in SBT without exiting?

I'm trying CTRL+C but it exits SBT. Is there a way to only exit the running application while keeping SBT open?

Answer

Jonas Anso picture Jonas Anso · Nov 4, 2015

From sbt version 0.13.5 you can add to your build.sbt

cancelable in Global := true

It is defined as "Enables (true) or disables (false) the ability to interrupt task execution with CTRL+C." in the Keys definition

If you are using Scala 2.12.7+ you can also cancel the compilation with CTRL+C. Reference https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/6479

There are some bugs reported:

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