Integrated terminal automatically sends 'Y' when terminating node batch script

[stephenmatheis]

Thank you so much for looking into this 🙏 !

Issue Type: Bug

~ > npm run concurrently \"script-1.js\" \"script-2.js\"
~ > [ type >> ctrl + c]
~ > Terminate batch job (Y/N)? Y (this character is automatically sent, but only terminates first script, putting remaining output in prompt on next line)
~ > [0] node script-name
~ > [type >> enter]
~ >                                                   y (character is still present, with spaces prepended)
~ > y : The term 'y' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name,   
or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

• The character y is never typed.
• This does not happen in Windows Terminal. ctrl + c works as expected.

VS Code version: Code 1.64.0 (5554b12, 2022-02-03T04:22:20.678Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044
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[meganrogge]

You can fix this by setting the value of terminate hatch job within terminal.integrated.autoReplies to null

[stephenmatheis]

@meganrogge, Thank you so much! I should have checked if this was a setting first. Just curious - is this a new setting/behavior? Just started happening with 1.64.

[Snailedlt]

This is still a bug.

This happens for me too. Every time I type CTRL+C it autoresponds Y. Now every time I type anything in the terminal after this, it writes Y after it:

Y : The term 'Y' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable progr
am. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and t 
ry again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Y
+ ~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Y:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

If I type any command that gives a prompt, it stops autoresponding with Y. It also seems that writing git commands in the terminal somehow stops the Yautoresponse.

Edit:
Like like @meganrogge mentioned, adding

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

to settings.json will prevent this from happening. Note that this is just a workaround, since it does not fix the actual issue of Y being responded to any message, but rather disables the autoresponse alltogether

[Tyriar]

I bet this is conpty reprinting causing duplicate responses 🤦

[Tyriar]

Updating to Windows 11 might workaround this as I've never hit this issue. The theory is that something running in the terminal is triggering conpty (the backend component) to reprint the screen which would re-output the match text.

[Tyriar]

Thanks for the report, I'm going to disable it by default to be safe. We also had an idea for later on to allow the feature to be discovered intuitively when the user responds manually.

How to configure for the batch job message is now called out in the docs:

[filiptronicek]

meganrogge, Thank you so much! I should have checked if this was a setting first. Just curious - is this a new setting/behavior? Just started happening with 1.64.

This indeed is new with 1.64, see the release notes for details.

[bballweiss]

I'm trying to use this to automatically enter Y when terminating a batch job. It is giving me an error after my next command though, because it enters "Y" again. This is what I have in settings.json:

And this is my terminal:

I saw Windows 11 was mentioned above. Do I need to be on that in order to use this feature?

[Tyriar]

Yes on older versions of Windows this is less reliable as the terminal emulation provided by Windows ends up reprinting the screen, causing the phrase to show up again.

[Snailedlt]

Shouldn't this be fixed for Windows 10 too though? It's still supported by Microsoft and VSCode, right?

[Regenhardt]

So is the conclusion just "Not supported you gotta disable it on Windows 10 yourself" and case closed? Doesn't seem right.

[Regenhardt]

Ok I see you disabled it by default in a merge request. So the state is now "this isn't supported on Windows 10"?

How about this:

Currently it seems to go "if (buffer.Contains(trigger)) send(reply);"
So what if instead it goes "if (buffer.Contains(trigger) && !buffer.Contains(trigger+reply)) send(reply);"

You know, just check if the line that was found already has a reply?

[bballweiss]

Thanks for the reply. I don't think it is OK to leave it as is. I saw it in the release notes (https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_64#_automatic-replies) and spent way too much time trying to get it to work before finding this thread. Can it either be fixed to work with Windows 10 or update the docs to make it clear that Windows 11 is needed?