Inquirer.js: Feature request: break input

Created on 29 Sep 2015 · 6Comments · Source: SBoudrias/Inquirer.js

As a user, I would like to be able to break input by pressing esc or ctrl-c to cancel input and return to the previous prompt.

Source

aguerrieri

👍4 🎉1

Most helpful comment

I'm not implying breaking the default behavior, but providing means to be able to get out of a menu by pressing some key(s) [escape perhaps?].

aguerrieri on 29 Sep 2015

👍5

All 6 comments

We don't intend to overwrite the default ctrl-c behavior. This would be a pretty bad user experience.

SBoudrias on 29 Sep 2015

👍3

I'm not implying breaking the default behavior, but providing means to be able to get out of a menu by pressing some key(s) [escape perhaps?].

aguerrieri on 29 Sep 2015

👍5

... and in fact right now, if you press ctrl-c it goes into a "locked" state and you need to press ctrl-c again to get out of it, so something seems to be indeed messing with the default behavior.

aguerrieri on 29 Sep 2015

I would like to second this issue. I ran across this scenario today.

savageautomate on 1 Mar 2016

I want this feature to be done from the software side. So some delayed handler can be executed, and if the user has not provided something within a limited period of time (or for some other reason - something has happened in the system, and its state has been changed, so there is no reason to prompt), javascript code should be able to break out of existing prompt.