[FEATURE] Leave Claude with single Ctrl+D

[andreas-gruenbacher]

Problem Statement

Right now, the Claude command line can be exited by pressing Ctrl+D twice in quick succession. (After the first Ctrl+D, Claude says "Press Ctrl-D again to exit".) This is rather annoying, and it isn't how other similar utilities work. If you get the timing slightly wrong, you can accidentally end up exiting the parent shell as well. A single Ctrl+D should be enough.

Proposed Solution

Can double Ctrl+D either be removed or made configurable?

Claude itself suggests to run "claude config set confirm_exit false" to disable double Ctrl+D, but this config option doesn't seem to exist.

Priority

Low - Nice to have

Feature Category

CLI commands and flags

Use Case Example

I'm always exiting Claude with Ctrl+D like I do with all other shells and shell-like utilities like bash, gdb, python. It's a very normal thing for command line users.

[github-actions]

Found 2 possible duplicate issues:

1. [BUG] ctrl+d not working #4288
2. [FEATURE] Ctrl-C and Esc keys should be single-purposed not multi-purposed #7391

This issue will be automatically closed as a duplicate in 3 days.

• If your issue is a duplicate, please close it and 👍 the existing issue instead
• To prevent auto-closure, add a comment or 👎 this comment

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

[github-actions]

This issue has been inactive for 30 days. If the issue is still occurring, please comment to let us know. Otherwise, this issue will be automatically closed in 30 days for housekeeping purposes.

[sblaisot]

Still an issue

[JayDoubleu]

+1

[gornostal]

Another use case where double CTRL+D creates a problem is when coding from a smartphone via SSH client.
It's difficult to hit the combination in such a short time window because the terminal emulator keyboard is tiny, and it takes more than a second to hit two keys.

[graehl]

C-d out of ssh sessions due to this. The default needs to be C-d exits. the 'double tap' timeout is ridiculously small but who even asked for this? it already gives you a command to resume ... really poor PM judgment on this one

[coldham10]

This is was a very opinionated UX choice, and it was a bad opinion. Thank you for --resume; please don't try to keep your REPL as a semi-daemon. Don't make us special-case near-universal shortcuts because your CLI tool is "more important"

[tdterry]

pretty please. Exits are routinely three or four CTRL+D presses because invariably I hit it once expecting it to exit, see the message, remember to hit it a second time, then it's too late. Then I end up hitting it twice more to finally get out.

[vchimishuk]

+1
It is very annoying and breaks the user experience humanity has developed since UNIX epoch start.