hyper-smart-confirm

hyper-smart-confirm is a plugin for Hyper, inspired by the behavior of the native macOS Terminal.app and meant to act as a more complete solution than that provided by the existing hyper-confirm plugin. It provides a confirmation dialog when attempting to close a session or window with active processes, and is meant to work cross-platform although as yet it's only tested on macOS.

Features

• Prompt when closing a window
• Prompt when closing a tab
• Prompt when quitting the app
• Do not prompt if the only running process is the shell
• Support a whitelist of process names that shouldn't cause a prompt

Configuration

There are four configuration options that live in the hyperSmartConfirm namespace:

  config: {
    // ...
    hyperSmartConfirm: {
      enabled: true,            // Prompt on quit
      enabledForWindows: true,  // Prompt when closing windows/tabs (independent of 'enabled')
      ignored: [],              // An array of RegExps containing process names to ignore
      ignoreShell: true,        // (Attempt to) ignore the shell when quitting
      debug: false              // Log more stuff to the console (when ELECTRON_IS_DEV=1)
    }
  }

Known issues

1. Shell detection is a little iffy and varies depending on whether you're closing a window or a tab. (This is because the pty object provided when looking at the list of sessions differs depending on whether you get if from the global app object or the window.
2. child-process (used by ps-list) sometimes throws an error (on macOS) when trying to run the ps command to get running processes. We trap the error and show the quit prompt because it's better to err on the side of caution, but it's still icky.