microsoft/Terminal

Add a parameter for `--closeOnExit`

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#16,060 opened on Sep 29, 2023

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Description

Description of the new feature/enhancement

You can sett e keep open parameter as parameter of the shell used. But if this Is dynamic (e.g. in PowerToys shell plugin) a global parameter for WT would be helpful.

This parameter should keeps the WT window open regardless of the choosen profile and its parameters.

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Investigate how Windows Terminal parses command line arguments and implements the ' keepOpen' parameter. Look at the existing codebase for similar startup flags.
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