scala - SBT stop run without exiting

Question

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 1

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:

• https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/1442
• https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/1855