How to stop iTerm2 closing tabs on error? [duplicate]

In Terminal, the default setting for handling closed sessions is to leave the window open.

In Preferences > Profiles:

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In iTerm2, the default is to close the window

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If you disable that option in iTerm2, it should give you the behavior you're looking for.

The section Scripting of the iTerm2 documentation helped me fixing my problem.

In .zshrc I defined the following function:

function exit {
    osascript ~/.zsh/.function_exit.as
}

With ~/.zsh/.function_exit.as as

tell application "iTerm2"
    tell current window to close current session
end tell

Additionally I set the following option in the iTerm2 settings:

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Using all the above things together I achieve the following behaviour:

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Since this does not depend on the Shell used everything should work perfectly using bash (and the corresponding dot-file).

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