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Odd text output at prompt using fish-shell

The Problem

I have an odd problem with Fish Shell on my Ubuntu 13.10 laptop. I've been using Fish for a few months now with 100% default settings. Last night everything seemed fine, but this morning I noticed something when I opened a new terminal. Every time I hit a key on the keyboard, the text write to 5 is output to the console. See the screenshot below for an example of what happened when I typed ls and pwd commands at the prompt.

My Questions

How do I go about finding the source of this odd text? Is it a fish config file? A fish function that got redefined by mistake?

More Clues

  • I first noticed this behavior after opening a new fish shell this morning.
  • Another shell I had left open from last night did not have the problem.
  • All new fish shells have the problem.
  • I do not see the problem if I start a bash shell inside an existing fish shell.
  • Rebooting my laptop did not help.
  • I am overwhelmed by the fish documentation.

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Solution

  • I think you are using nightly builds? This was a debugging line that made it into a nightly, and should have been fixed the following day.

    The bug tracking this is https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1413