Exception invoking fish shell from Powershell
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Assessment
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- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
Research direction
First reproduce the reported fish command from PowerShell 7.5 on Darwin and trace the stack through RecomputeInitialCoords, ReallyRender, and ForceRender. Done means the command completes without PSReadLine raising the reported InvalidOperationException.
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Exception report
PS /Users/roschmac/mount/VM/E/pcut.evolution> /opt/homebrew/bin/fish -c 'ls -la "/Users/roschmac/mount/VM/C/
Program Files (x86)/Embarcadero/Studio/23.0/source/rtl/common/"'
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### Environment
PSReadLine: 2.3.6+d2e770f93b7a53d8660a6402eb29d1ae1c35e767
PowerShell: 7.5.0
OS: Darwin 24.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.5.0: Thu Apr 10 20:23:06 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.120.96.501.2~2/
RELEASE_ARM64_T6041
BufferWidth: 108
BufferHeight: 1
Last 200 Keys:
F i l e s Spacebar ( x 8 6 ) / E m b a r c a d e r o / S t u d i o / 2 3 . 0 / s o u r c e / r t l / c o m
m o n / " ' Enter
/ o p t / h o m e b r e w / b i n / f i s h Spacebar - c Spacebar ' s e t Spacebar - U x Spacebar B D S Spa
cebar " / U s e r s / r o s c h m a c / m o u n t / V M / C / P r o g r a m Spacebar F i l e s Spacebar ( x
PS /Users/roschmac/mount/VM/E/pcut.evolution>
t z t Spacebar a u f : Spacebar $ B D S " ' Enter
### Exception
System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot locate the offset in the rendered text that was pointed by the orig
inal cursor. Initial Coord: (46, 17) Buffer: (108, 19) Cursor: (47, 0)
at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.RecomputeInitialCoords(Boolean isTextBufferUnchanged)
at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.ReallyRender(RenderData renderData, String defaultColor)
at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.ForceRender()
at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.ProcessOneKey(PSKeyInfo key, Dictionary`2 dispatchTable, Boolea
n ignoreIfNoAction, Object arg)
at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.InputLoop()
at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.ReadLine(Runspace runspace, EngineIntrinsics engineIntrinsics,
CancellationToken cancellationToken, Nullable`1 lastRunStatus)
Screenshot
The command cursor was trying to invoke:
/opt/homebrew/bin/fish -c 'set -Ux BDS "/Users/roschmac/mount/VM/C/Program Files (x86)/Embarcadero/Studio/23.0"; echo "BDS gesetzt auf: $BDS"'
Environment data
PS Version: 7.5.0
PS HostName: ConsoleHost
PSReadLine Version: 2.3.6
PSReadLine EditMode: Emacs
OS: Darwin MacBook-Pro-RS.local 24.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.5.0: Thu Apr 10 20:23:06 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.120.96.501.2~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6041 arm64
BufferWidth: 177
BufferHeight: 50
Steps to reproduce
Standard shell is fish. Cursor (AI development) is using powershell and tries to invoke a command with fish.
Expected behavior
No exception
Actual behavior
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