When running a shell for `--hold set the env variable KITTY_HOLD=1` to allow users to customize what happens

For instance the user could have

[ "$KITTY_HOLD" = "1" ] && exec kitten __hold_till_enter__

in their shell rc files to get back the previous Press enter or esc to
quit behavior.
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Kovid Goyal
2023-08-30 14:18:11 +05:30
parent 9702f08698
commit 37938573ca
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@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ Detailed list of changes
- Fix a regression that caused changing :opt:`text_fg_override_threshold` or :opt:`text_composition_strategy` via config reload causing incorrect rendering (:iss:`6559`)
- When running a shell for ``--hold`` set the env variable ``KITTY_HOLD=1`` to allow users to customize what happens (:disc:`6587`)
0.29.2 [2023-07-27]
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@@ -223,3 +223,8 @@ Variables that kitty sets when running child programs
Set when using the include directive in kitty.conf. Can take values:
``linux``, ``macos``, ``bsd``.
.. envvar:: KITTY_HOLD
Set to ``1`` when kitty is running a shell because of the ``--hold`` flag. Can
be used to specialize shell behavior in the shell rc files as desired.