ctrl+c (as well as ctrl+\ and ctrl+z) is a little different from other shortcuts because they're captured by your TTY rather than your running application - tho

ctrl+c (as well as ctrl+\ and ctrl+z) is a little different from other shortcuts because they're captured by your TTY rather than your running application - though you can catch the interrupt that ctrl+c et al sends. Lesser known fact: you can also redefine which keys you want to raise SIGINT, SIGQUIT and SIGTSTP with.