The attached patch is quite special, as it fulfills a personal need. It

adds a boolean configuration file option ui.sessions.keep_session_active
that'll change elinks' behaviour to not terminate the session, if the
last terminal exits. That allows me to re-use entered passwords after
closing all elinks terminals. Maybe some others will find this feature
useful too and it can be included in elinks.

I guess the best would be to combine this feature with an remote command
named terminate() to terminate the background elinks instance.

src/config/options.inc

@@ -1192,6 +1192,10 @@ static struct option_info config_options_info[] = {
 		"sessions", OPT_SORT,
 		N_("Sessions settings.")),
 
+	INIT_OPT_BOOL("ui.sessions", N_("Keep session active"),
+		"keep_session_active", 0, 0,
+		N_("Keep the session active even if the last terminal exits.")),
+
 	INIT_OPT_BOOL("ui.sessions", N_("Auto save session"),
 		"auto_save", 0, 0,
 		N_("Automatically save the session when quitting.\n"

src/terminal/terminal.c

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include "elinks.h"
 
 #include "bookmarks/bookmarks.h"
+#include "config/options.h"
 #include "intl/gettext/libintl.h"
 #include "main/main.h"
 #include "main/object.h"
@@ -161,7 +162,8 @@ destroy_all_terminals(void)
 static void
 check_if_no_terminal(void)
 {
-	program.terminate = list_empty(terminals);
+	program.terminate = list_empty(terminals)
+			    && !get_opt_bool("ui.sessions.keep_session_active");
 }
 
 void