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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by coldtea on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:30AM (#20112636)
>Just that the prompt automatically goes on a new line makes iTerm2 so nice though.

Not sure what you mean here, but I don't think that's something you don't get, or can't get, on Terminal.app. In fact, that's the default...

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by saagarjha on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:48AM (#20112708)
If you have a command that doesn't print a new line, the prompt normally ends up on the same line as the output of the last command. iTerm can "fix" this.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by skohan on Thursday June 06, 2019 @05:52AM (#20112995)
See this is where I would rather have my terminal obey the program rather than imposing its own behavior. IMO a good terminal should be extremely minimal, and anything extra should be opt-in.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by snazz on Thursday June 06, 2019 @08:04AM (#20113666)
Don’t shells usually fix this? I know that Fish at least includes a little Unicode “return” arrow when it appends a newline.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by saagarjha on Thursday June 06, 2019 @07:06AM (#20113331)
This is an option that you can enable. It's not on by default.
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