Cmder: Ctrl+C - Disable terminate batch job question

[xelra]

One of the most annoying things when working with the Command Prompt on Windows is the Terminate batch job (Y/N)? question that has to be answered after pressing ctrl+c.
Some people are ok with pressing ctrl+c twice, but this doesn't always work.

Cmder brings the Unix workflow to Windows and a great feature would be to suppress this question.

There's a little project called CmdEx, which has exactly done that. Maybe the code could be mostly copied from that?

Thank you very much for considering.

[DRSDavidSoft]

Solution:

clink set terminate_autoanswer 1

or, read @edmundo096's answer: https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/issues/1666#issuecomment-368946122

⚡ Wiki page: https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/wiki/Customization#terminate-batch-job-yn

👉 Note: Restart Cmder session to take effect.

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@xelra Vote up for merging CmdEx into Cmder, alongside Clink!

[edmundo096]

This was somewhat previously commented on #1488

[edmundo096]

Also discussed here #108
Probably what samvasko pointed to on that issue, there is a setting inside \cmder\config\settings file:

# name: Auto-answer terminate prompt
# type: enum
#  0 = Disabled
#  1 = Answer 'Y'
#  2 = Answer 'N'
# Automatically answers cmd.exe's 'Terminate batch job (Y/N)?' prompts. 0 =
# disabled, 1 = answer 'Y', 2 = answer 'N'.
terminate_autoanswer = 1

That should do the trick.

[DRSDavidSoft]

Thanks @edmundo096! I added your solution to our wiki:

• https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/wiki/Customization#terminate-batch-job-yn

[daxgames]

just run:

C:\Users\user\Documents$ clink set terminate_autoanswer 1
Settings 'terminate_autoanswer' set to '1'