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bug #67015: kill and quit --confirm options are undocumented and should be default

Submitter:  Andrew Schulman <andrex>
Submitted:  Fri 11 Apr 2025 11:42:07 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  * 5 - Normal Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  5.0.0
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
Work Required:  None
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Fri 11 Apr 2025 11:42:07 AM UTC, original submission:  

In screen 5.0.0, the kill and quit commands both have a --confirm option that's not documented in the man or info pages.

In screen v4, the default behavior (I think, at least in my installations) of both kill and quit was to prompt before executing.

In v5, (in my Cygwin build) the default keybinding for k is kill --confirm, but the default for \ is just quit. A safer default keybinding for \ would be quit --confirm.

Andrew Schulman <andrex>

 

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