Why Doesn't Control-C Work in the Linux 'less' Command?

[ehrenfest]

[SOLVED] getting out of less

How do you get out of the "less" environment in linux? The normal control-C does not work and I am not sure why. I usually just resort to control-Z but then I have to go back and kill the process which is annoying.

EDIT: apparently .q works; but can someone please explain why the normal control-C does not work?

 

[mgb_phys]

The designer of 'less' chose to make it ignore ctrl-c, I don't know why.
Some implementations quit on ctrl-C but this isn't the standard behaviour.