Tab remains open even on process exit

[rashil2000]

Windows Terminal version (or Windows build number)

10.0.19042.870 1.7.572.0

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

This doesn't happen each time, but it does happen often enough to be annoying - leading me to file this issue.

Shell is mostly irrelevant - I use a variety of them - CMD, Powershell, Powershell Core, Msys Bash, Msys Zsh, WSL1/2, SSH sessions etc.

Open a shell. Do some work. Exit it with Ctrl+D. (This is a fairly preferred way of closing a shell without typing 'exit' or reaching for the mouse to close the tab)

Expected Behavior

The tab to get closed.

Actual Behavior

This happens instead (screenshot below):

The tab remains open.

[skyline75489]

When the return code of the process is 1 instead of 0, this is expected.

You can find out more in the documentation about closeOnExit.

See also #4223, #5003.

[zadjii-msft]

Thanks for the report! Please make sure to search for duplicates when filing new issues. Like skyline75489 mentioned, this is by-design for the closeOnExit setting.

[rashil2000]

Thanks for the link @zadjii-msft!

The reason I filed a new issue was because of a possible resolution I had in mind (apart from modifying closeOnExit behavior, obviously, as @skyline75489 mentioned) - namely - having a keybind that closes a tab. I searched for that and couldn't find anything in the issues, hence a new one. Would you mind reopening this if such a feature doesn't exist?

[zadjii-msft]

closePane will close the tab if there's only one pane in the tab. That's why it's the action bound to ctrl+shift+w by default.

There's also a closeTab action, which will close the tab even when multiple panes are open.

[rashil2000]

Okay, thanks for the help!