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Because we're still using the old one. 😄

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Hi @mattgreen, I hope it's okay if I open a general questions thread here. I'm looking into making Tide asynchronous, and I think that you're the best person to ask for advice on the matter. I didn't want to just open a new issue for every question I had.

First question: You say that IPC via universal variables is a non-starter. Why is that?

I have a very simple example, but it seems to work perfectly.

function fish_prompt
    fish --command 'set -U foo (fish_git_prompt)' &

    echo $PWD $foo
end

function on_foo --on-variable foo
    commandline -f repaint
end

I tried this over the past few days, and then I found out that my original Fish prompt (.config/fish/functions/fish_prompt.fish) that I had carefully written and tweaked was just gone. Fortunately, I had a backup, but I don't much like it for packages to erase my files without asking me.

Hi there. I've been enjoying using this prompt for quite a while now!

I do have a request. I frequently find myself suspending jobs and coming back to them later-- this is the primary way that I manage my open code editors, for example (e.g. Ctrl+Z to suspend open editor, fg to get it back later). So a count of the number of background jobs is pretty useful for me to see in the prompt.

I've actually already implemented a version of this just for my own personal config, so I'm willing to open a PR for it. Just wanted to hear your thoughts before I did so. Something like this:

function show_jobs_count # ... with a flag to enable or disable this function
    set -g jobs_count (jobs | wc -l | xargs echo -n)
    if [ $jobs_count != "0" ]
        set_color $__embark_primary_cyan
        echo -n "+$jobs_count "
    end
    set_color normal
end

gives:

~/scratch
[I] ❯ nvim whatever
fish: Job 1, 'nvim whatever' has stopped

+1 ~/scratch
[I] ❯

If this is too obscure of a feature to include, no worries. Thanks again for this project!

I like the prompt a lot, but as a user of fish_vi_key_bindings it is confusing that I cannot see which mode is on. Indicator would be very helpful.

I really enjoy the prompt starting on a new line but when you clear the terminal it clears the line with the current working directory and git status and only shows the second line. No idea if there's a way around this, but figured I'd mention it!