Maybe the issue is that left_prompt_layout.max_line_width isn't computed
correctly for multi-line prompts.
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Robert Carpenter <rob...@robacarp.com>
wrote:
> Hey Mark,
>
> I've seen this too, and I spent some time digging around in the source
> today and I don't think there is a way around it:
> https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/
> cb352317bdd421d140771de62c23ee3c32138502/src/screen.cpp#L956-L961
>
> Someone can correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe the goal here is
> for fish to present something usable in all situations and when the prompt
> is too long, usability starts to decrease rapidly.
>
> Robert
>
> > On Sep 30, 2017, at 13:59, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps my function is getting called, but fish becomes convinced that
> my prompt won't fit and so it just outputs "> ". I'm trying to manage that
> by outputting a multi-line prompt where each line I output does fit, but I
> suspect fish thinks I'm trying to output everything on a single line. Is
> there another approach I can take to creating a multi-line prompt?
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Mark Volkmann <
> r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have defined a custom fish prompt that works great most of the time. I
> have verified that it works when $COLUMNS is >= 57 or $COLUMNS is between
> 20 and 47. However, my fish_prompt function doesn't even get called if
> $COLUMNS is 52. Any idea what could cause that?
> >
> > My code is at https://github.com/mvolkmann/
> MyUnixEnv/blob/master/.config/fish/functions/fish_prompt.fish.
> >
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