Re: MinTTY 0.4-alpha1

[Matt Wozniski <godlygeek at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Frank Fesevur:
>> An minor option I would like is to always close MinTTY, even when bash
>> exits with status code. Now I need to press for instance the enter key
>> to close MinTTY after I pressed Ctrl+D and I have pressed Ctrl+C at
>> least once.
>
> Any successfully executed command will clear the exit status, but yep,
> I see what you mean. This feature was intended for invoking programs
> such as ssh or telnet, or perhaps a script, where you'd want to see
> the output if there's an error. Admittedly though, it's little use
> with the standard case of a shell session.
>
> So how about disabling this by default, and having a command line
> option for activating it might be necessary? Suggestions for the name
> of such an option welcome. ("--keep-open-on-error" is the best I could
> come up with so far, but that's a bit on the unsnappy side.)

FWIW, xterm uses "-hold"

~Matt

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