fish stopped showing prompt after fish_prompt

Question

I tried modifying the fish prompt as indicated in this page: http://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html

When I changed my fish_prompt to

function fish_prompt
    set_color purple
    date "+%m/%d/%y"
    set_color FF0
    echo (pwd) '>'
    set_color normal
end

I noticed my alt+left stopped working. Is there something I need to do to enable alt+left within fish_prompt?

Answer 1

I tried your prompt, and it looked to me like the directory history was working ok but that it wasn't clear because prompt wasn't being reprinted correctly.

Instead of

echo (pwd) '>'

try

echo -n (pwd) '> '