Surface an error when the Claude process fails without stderr output#198
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Some launchers (e.g. wsl.exe reporting a missing WSL distro) write their error text to stdout instead of stderr and exit non-zero. The close handler only checked errorOutput (stderr-only), so users got no error bubble at all and the chat looked permanently stuck after "Claude is working...". Fall back to captured stdout, and to a generic "exited with code N" message, so a failure is always surfaced. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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If the spawned
claudeprocess exits immediately without writing to stderr (e.g. a misconfigured WSL setup wherewsl.exereports its error on stdout as UTF-16), the extension showed an endless "Claude is working…" state with no feedback.The exit handler now surfaces a visible error message when the process dies early with an empty stderr, instead of hanging silently.
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