Bypass "Press any key to continue" prompt from shell.openTab

[GitMrMeeseeks]

I am using shell.openTab to launch scripts many times that might only last a few seconds. They do not go away without user input. I want to be able to close those tabs when the script is done running, otherwise I end up with 100s of tabs. They simply stay on "Press any key to continue".

[zyxkad]

You can use multishell.setFocus to set the focus and then set the focus back to prevent that.

For example:

local currentTabId = multishell.getFocus()

local newTabId = shell.openTab('hello')
multishell.setFocus(newTabId)
multishell.setFocus(currentTabId)

[zyxkad]

But in advance, if you want to complete prevent the tab being showed on terminal, you should directly invoke os.run with coroutine or parallel

[SquidDev]

I am using shell.openTab to launch scripts many times

Hrmr, that feels like a bit of an anti-pattern. Do these need to be external scripts, or would it be cleaner to write them as functions, and then use a coroutine manager for parallelism? Would you be able to share your code, might help make this a little clearer.