no terminal prompt

[austindenny]

after installing, I can open a terminal window, but it won't allow me to insert custom or selected text. there's just a blinking cursor with no prompt

[fl0w]

I have the same issue.

[Greenscreener]

same...

[Greenscreener]

(on Ubuntu 16.10)

[Greenscreener]

Same as #357

[austindenny]

found a fix. install platformio-ide-terminal (a fork of terminal-plus)

[m34nbunny]

neither work for me

[m34nbunny]

terminal-fusion actually works for me though, but I am on Linux

[Greenscreener]

platformio-ide-terminal works for me.

[michaelrtm]

same

[lucymhdavies]

Same issue on OS X. platformio-ide-terminal wfm.

[prometheas]

Also had this issue on macOS Sierra. Can also confirm @lucymhdavies' report that platformio-ide-terminal works.

[design1online]

I have the same issue on El Capitan OS X.

[alexrussell]

Interestingly the PlatformIO package did not work for me, but I did attempt to use it after simply just disabling this package, so I may have done it incorrectly.

[prometheas]

@alexrussell, restart Atom (or reload the window) and try again.

[alexrussell]

I have done so and I still get a blinking terminal. I do use fish as my shell, but I'm not sure if that would affect anything. Both packages correctly determine that fish should be used as the shell in the default value for "shell override".

Edit: also setting that override to /bin/bash does nothing to fix it - I still just get a blank blinking terminal.

[prometheas]

I use fish too. Works great.

This probably isn't the place to troubleshoot the PlatformIO terminal, though :) perhaps look for / create an issue over at that package's tracker?

Happy to resume the convo over there; simply at-mention.

[alexrussell]

While I did mention that the PlatformIO package didn't work for me, all my testing (e.g. testing /bin/bash) was performed on both packages and both fail. Being as PlatformIO is a fork of this package I figured having it fixed 'upstream' would work better. That said, maybe it's a true fork, and also maybe it gets more attention so I'm more than willing to move over there. You think I should?

[alexrussell]

Woah just realised how many dupes of this issue there may be. FWIW I have added my 2¢ to platformio#85 on this (@prometheas) but I've noticed there are quite a few issues on this repo regarding the shell not starting up:

#201 #280 #351 (maybe) #353 #357 #362

As such, I think that if this package is in any way still maintained (last commit was 5 days ago) these issues need cleaning up.

[LarsKumbier]

Could you please try this fix? #362 (comment)