# Julia nightly REPL has broken prompt

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-nightly-repl-has-broken-prompt/124591>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** windows, bug\
**Created:** [January 9, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-nightly-repl-has-broken-prompt/124591 "2025-01-09T13:33:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-nightly-repl-has-broken-prompt/124591/1 "2025-01-09T13:33:43Z")

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Hi, I just updated my nightly version, but the REPL is unusable (Windows).

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/4/1/4186498a8a9bda165b262469960f4db0b695b41b.png)

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**Author:** ![woclass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/woclass/32/212699_2.png) [@woclass](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/woclass)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-nightly-repl-has-broken-prompt/124591/2 "2025-01-09T14:35:38Z")

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> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/56073>
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> !\[Image\](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bd43c304-ecad-4faa-944f-ab5d…37b92837)

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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-nightly-repl-has-broken-prompt/124591/3 "2025-01-09T14:49:52Z")

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Not that (I think), my previous installed version had ~10 days

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**Author:** ![woclass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/woclass/32/212699_2.png) [@woclass](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/woclass)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-nightly-repl-has-broken-prompt/124591/4 "2025-01-09T15:08:11Z")

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I just updated julia nightly and I’m having this problem too.

Using mintty or [Tabby](https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby) as a terminal can work around this temporarily.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/3/e318fdfc7547452e1f16eef7594498c70a5e7cb8.png)

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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-nightly-repl-has-broken-prompt/124591/5 "2025-01-09T15:13:21Z")

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Thanks for confirming. Tabby _seems_ to work, but nope. Here’s what happen when I try `pwd()`

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/4/4/44855b784bbe8407cd9d3c723c43c436d2cefcd6.png)