Test: Terminal auto replies

[Tyriar]

Refs: #133524

• macOS @deepak1556
• linux @gregvanl
• Windows @bamurtaugh

Complexity: 2

Authors: @Tyriar, @meganrogge

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The terminal has a new feature called auto replies that will reply automatically when a particular sequence of characters is encountered in succession. The main use case for this feature is Windows batch scripts and their annoying Terminate batch job (Y/N)? question they ask, despite the backing process already being killed. The reply is throttled just in case something goes wrong.

The default for the setting is:

  "terminal.integrated.autoReplies": {
    "Terminate batch job (Y/N)": "Y\r"
  }

Do some exploratory testing, try to break it, etc. Whoever is on Windows make sure to test the primary use case of ctrl+c in a batch script, also make sure you can remove the default from the setting to disable it.

[hello-smile6]

@Tyriar Just wondering, will it be possible to disable that? It could potentially have issues. For example, sending "y" in response would potentially send non-HTTP data to an HTTP server if the user was downloading a file via telnet and that line was at the end of the response.

[Tyriar]

@hello-smile6 you can delete the default item from the setting pretty easily to disable it completely. Maybe I'm misunderstanding but I don't think it would cause issues in the case you're talking about since Terminate batch job (Y/N) would have to happen first.

[Tyriar]

@hello-smile6 this feature isn't meant to be a stop the user from deleting / protection, but a convenience thing to workaround a UX issue on Windows. It's just generalized so you can use it elsewhere if you want to.

[hello-smile6]

@hello-smile6 this feature isn't meant to be a stop the user from deleting / protection, but a convenience thing to workaround a UX issue on Windows. It's just generalized so you can use it elsewhere if you want to.

Okay.