CloseOnExit now defaults to COE_ALWAYS for pterm, bringing it back

[u/mdw/putty] / unix / pterm.1

diff --git a/unix/pterm.1 b/unix/pterm.1
index ff8e512..1643615 100644 (file)
--- a/unix/pterm.1
+++ b/unix/pterm.1
@@ -109,6 +109,21 @@ resources. All of these resources are of the form \fIpterm.FOO\fP
 for some FOO; you can make \fIpterm\fP look them up under another
 name, such as \fIxyz.FOO\fP, by specifying the command-line option
 "-name xyz".
+.IP "\fBpterm.CloseOnExit\fP"
+This option should be set to 0, 1 or 2; the default is 2. It
+controls what \fIpterm\fP does when the process running inside it
+terminates. When set to 2 (the default), \fIpterm\fP will close its
+window as soon as the process inside it terminates. When set to 0,
+\fIpterm\fP will print the process's exit status, and the window
+will remain present until a key is pressed (allowing you to inspect
+the scrollback, and copy and paste text out of it).
+
+When this setting is set to 1, \fIpterm\fP will close
+immediately if the process exits cleanly (with an exit status of
+zero), but the window will stay around if the process exits with a
+non-zero code or on a signal. This enables you to see what went
+wrong if the process suffers an error, but not to have to bother
+closing the window in normal circumstances.
 .IP "\fBpterm.TerminalType\fP"
 This controls the value set in the TERM environment variable inside
 the new terminal. The default is "xterm".