I'm working on a command line tool using Node and I'd like to prevent it from exiting when using the readline module when the user inputs the "Retu...
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It sounds like you want something like this?
Si! Thanks so much for helping with your answer! I was able to solve my problem based on your solution. Is
SIGINT
what is triggered by default when a new line event occurs? So handling theSIGINT
event did the trick?No worries mate - glad it was helpful. I've never actually used
readline
, so it was a good opportunity to give it a spin 😁.SIGINT
is the interrupt signal. The terminal sends it to the foreground process when the user pressesctrl-c
. We handle this signal so we can gracefully shut downrl
(rl.pause()
).line
is the event that is triggered when a new line occurs. I would assume that the default behaviour of a new line is to callrl.pause()
but we're capturing the event instead and doing our own thing.👍