Warp not respecting default shell

[paymog]

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Describe the bug

When I open a new tab in Warp I see starting zsh but then it seems that zsh doesn't start.

However, if I then manually start zsh, I see what I expect

To Reproduce

Don't know how to reproduce unfortunately

Expected behaviour

I expect zsh to start when I open a new warp tab

Screenshots

I've attached screenshots above

Operating System

MacOS

OS Version

12.5

Shell Version

zsh 5.9 (arm-apple-darwin21.3.0)

Warp Version

v0.2022.09.07.14.56.stable_00

Additional context

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Does this block you from using Warp daily?

Yes

Warp Internal (ignore): linear-label:b8107fdf-ba31-488d-b103-d271c89cac3e

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[paymog]

oh wait, it seems warp does load my shell because my aliases are there, but it seems that vim mode and other such aspects of my customized shell aren't loaded by default.

[dannyneira]

Hi @paymog, I'm Danny, Support Engineer with Warp. Sorry you're having these issues with the app. You're correct in that vim mode isn't currently supported but we do have a feature request out for support, #159, so please 👍 that one as it helps us gauge interest.

Now for your other issues, my guess is that you normally have a custom prompt and that Warp is unable to parse it. For example we don't support multi-line or right sided custom prompts (PS1) at the moment.

You can check whether it’s something in your dotfiles by setting up clean configs: Set ZDOTDIR=/ in your ~/.zshenv file. This forces Zsh to run with zero configs.

You can disable parts of your dotfiles just for Warp by using this conditional statement:

if [[ $TERM_PROGRAM != "WarpTerminal" ]]; then
##### WHAT YOU WANT TO DISABLE FOR WARP - BELOW

# Whatever you want to disable

##### WHAT YOU WANT TO DISABLE FOR WARP - ABOVE
fi

We have a list of incompatible tools in our documentation: https://docs.warp.dev/help/known-issues#list-of-incompatible-tools

I hope this helps get you up and running.

[Soromeister]

Hey @paymog, you need to enable Honor user's custom prompt (PS1) in the Preferences > Features page. Make sure your prompt doesn't have a right side to it and it should work.

[dannyneira]

@paymog any luck with zsh startup by running clean configs?

[paymog]

I think it was my custom prompt which has stuff on the right hand side. I use vim mode with zsh - if I fix up my prompt to remove stuff on the RHS, would we expect warp to work with the zsh vim mode?

[Soromeister]

@paymog , I use Starship Prompt and I recommend it. It's pretty easy to setup and to make it work in Warp you need to make sure the below:

• No right side stuff. It's not supported
• No multiline terminal. It will get crunched to one line anyway, so make sure input is on the same line as the prompt.

[paymog]

Awesome thanks for the tip @Soromeister! I'll give it a shot. Hoping there are good guides for getting to work with zprezto without adding extra bloat 🤞

EDIT: does starship have vim mode? Quick search of the docs make it seem like it doesn't.

[dannyneira]

@paymog no vim-mode at this moment, but we do have an FR #159 out for that support. Please +1 that one as it helps us gauge interest.

Please let us know if you're still having issues with shell after trying the recommendations above.

[dannyneira]

Any updates on this @paymog ?

[paymog]

I think we can close this out, I'll wait for vim mode to be natively supported.