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.