# Automatically close "Julia Debugger" terminal after program ends

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatically-close-julia-debugger-terminal-after-program-ends/56351>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** debug\
**Created:** [March 2, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatically-close-julia-debugger-terminal-after-program-ends/56351 "2021-03-02T17:14:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![luc-j-bourhis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/luc-j-bourhis/32/13097_2.png) [@luc-j-bourhis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/luc-j-bourhis)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatically-close-julia-debugger-terminal-after-program-ends/56351/1 "2021-03-02T17:14:27Z")

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By default, every time a debug session is started, a new terminal “Julia Debugger” is started. When the program finishes, one has to hit “enter” to close it as instructed by the message “Julia debuggee finished. Press ENTER to close this terminal.” Is there a setting I could change to make the terminal automatically quit when the debuggee finishes? I find that behaviour a tad annoying. I might be missing something but I don’t understand the rationale for it to be the default. That’s with the version of VS Code and Julia extension at the time of writing.

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**Author:** ![jradxl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@jradxl](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jradxl)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatically-close-julia-debugger-terminal-after-program-ends/56351/2 "2021-10-31T14:46:45Z")

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I wish for this too. Did you find an answer?  
John