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by coldtea 2567 days ago
>Just that the prompt automatically goes on a new line makes iTerm2 so nice though.

Not sure what you mean here, but I don't think that's something you don't get, or can't get, on Terminal.app. In fact, that's the default...

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If you have a command that doesn't print a new line, the prompt normally ends up on the same line as the output of the last command. iTerm can "fix" this.
See this is where I would rather have my terminal obey the program rather than imposing its own behavior. IMO a good terminal should be extremely minimal, and anything extra should be opt-in.
Don’t shells usually fix this? I know that Fish at least includes a little Unicode “return” arrow when it appends a newline.
This is an option that you can enable. It's not on by default.