In fish, I like to set the prompt to print a blank line before the prompt text. No problem: I just add an "echo" statement at the beginning of the fish_prompt function. In fish in Linux that works fine:
=== andrex@helium ~> pwd /home/andrex andrex@helium ~> === But in Cygwin, it has a strange effect. It seems that the prompt gets reprinted every time the syntax highlighting changes, so I get a bunch of extra lines printed as I type. Here's how the same pwd command looks in my Cygwin fish console: === andrex@selenium ~> andrex@selenium ~> pwd andrex@selenium ~> pwd andrex@selenium ~> pwd /home/andrex andrex@selenium ~> === I've tried working around this problem by adding if test -z (commandline) ; echo ; end to fish_prompt instead of just echo, so it won't reprint the blank line if a command is being typed. But it doesn't help. Apparently the prompt is computed once and stored, then reprinted on each syntax highlighting change, including the extra newline. Is this caused by a configuration setting in fish that can be changed? Something Cygwin-specific? Thanks, Andrew -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
