Spaceship-prompt: Prompt arrow disappears when activating conda env

[sbmueller]

Current behavior

After activating a conda environment, the arrow in the next line indicating the prompt disappears.

Expected behavior

After activating a conda environment, it's name should be displayed next to the working directory. In the next line, an arrow should indicate the prompt.

Relevant Zsh configuration (.zshrc)

# All default settings
ZSH_THEME="spaceship"

Environment

Spaceship version: 3.5.0
Zsh version: 5.3
Zsh framework: oh-my-zsh
Zsh plugin manager: None
Terminal emulator: cygwin
Operating system: Windows 10

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Possible solution

I guess some characters when determining the conda prefix are not escaped correctly. In particular \r could cause such problems.

[salmanulfarzy]

Looks like conda is rendering it's own prompt segment before spaceship. Please try setting conda config --set changeps1 False to disabled that. I'll try to reproduce this in the meantime.

[sbmueller]

@salmanulfarzy hey, same behaviour with the changed conda config you mention

Edit: just noticed the (base) output at the end of each command disappeared. However, the arrow is still missing as well.

[salmanulfarzy]

Sorry @sbmueller, I'm unable to reproduce this under the following setup. Will try with look into reproducing.

spaceship 3.5.0 / Zsh 5.3.1 / No framework / Kitty / Linux

[sbmueller]

@salmanulfarzy I guess this is directly connected to Windows. I had a similar problem with powerlevel9k (https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k/issues/747).

[sbmueller]

Quick update: the first character of each line seems to be messed up after activating conda env. I have selected all the text in this screenshot to make clear the characters are odd:

[salmanulfarzy]

first character of each line seems to be messed up after activating conda env

That's weird :confused: So to confirm from the screenshot, after activating conda environment, arrows and tilde have disappeared from prompt. What happens when the first segment on line starts with letter and not symbol ? I don't use Windows as of now. Will try to setup similar environment for testing this issue.

I had a similar problem with powerlevel9k

About the p9k issue, What happened with https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k/pull/810, Did it help ?

[sbmueller]

@salmanulfarzy Any first characters have disappeared after activating conda env, also letters.
In the p9k issue, I could fix this by removing any escape symbols from the conda prefix (${CONDA_ENV_PATH//[$'\t\r\n']}${CONDA_PREFIX//[$'\t\r\n']})

[sbmueller]

Quick update: When I use ${CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV//[$'\t\r\n']} in l. 31 of sections/conda.zsh at least in the first line, the first character is displayed correctly. However, second line is still missing the arrow.

[sbmueller]

And it gets even more weird: As soon as I start a command in background ($ command &) the arrow reappears in the shell.

[salmanulfarzy]

I think this is specifically related to Cygwin unicode handling. Does this happens for you with spaceship-prompt on other terminal emulators under Windows ?

[sbmueller]

@salmanulfarzy I'm afraid I'm not able to try other emulators due to company restrictions. Feel free to close the issue if tracking down the problem is not possible in that case.

[bhilburn]

@sbmueller - Can you try the next branch and let us know if anything is different?

[sbmueller]

@bhilburn Is there a next branch? It doesn't seem to be pushed to this repo.

[salmanulfarzy]

He was mentioning about bhilburn/powerlevel9k@next.

[bhilburn]

Hah! Indeed - I actually didn't even realize this wasn't the p9k repo when I commented, lol.

[salmanulfarzy]

Kudos on yesterdays triaging sprint with P9K :+1:

[sbmueller]

Hah! Indeed - I actually didn't even realize this wasn't the p9k repo when I commented, lol.

Haha, now everything makes sense 😄
@salmanulfarzy how are you feeling about closing this? I cannot be of much help resolving and if someone else experiences this issue as well, reopen is always possible.

(I have kind of a solution for myself: I use P9K at work and Spaceship Prompt privately on macOS at home.)

[salmanulfarzy]

We had multiple issues with Windows machines (some of them are still open), It would be great if someone is willing to improve code base to better suite Windows without breaking prompt for existing Unix machines.

[ionlights]

So... I'm actually experiencing an approximation of this on both MacOS and Arch Linux. I've read through the thread, but am unsure how to translate to *nix systems.

Looks like conda is rendering it's own prompt segment before spaceship. Please try setting conda config --set changeps1 False to disabled that. I'll try to reproduce this in the meantime.

The conda command here has no effect.

Some of the info that seems pertinent to helping. 😅

• spaceship=3.10.0
• zsh=5.6.2-1
• antibody=4.0.2

• conda=4.6.1

• MacOS / Terminal

• Arch Linux / ssh connection (typically through MacOS Terminal)

/cc @salmanulfarzy @sbmueller

[salmanulfarzy]

@ionlights Excuse us for missing this.

This issue related to windows. Please open new issue with screenshot and information provided here if you still have trouble with our theme on unix machine.

[ionlights]

@salmanulfarzy all right, will do. 👍