[saagarjha]

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.

[skohan]

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.

[snazz]

Don’t shells usually fix this? I know that Fish at least includes a little Unicode “return” arrow when it appends a newline.

[saagarjha]

This is an option that you can enable. It's not on by default.