Hi John, I just did the same in "emacs -Q", have a look at the screenshot. Still doesn't work for me. Kind regards Manuel Uberti https://manuel-uberti.github.io GPG fingerprint = 8702 9F53 2466 A6B5 E3F4 6B44 4E57 A6C4 CAA4 8F62 On 24/03/2017 18:49, John Mastro wrote: > Hi Manuel, > > Manuel Uberti wrote: >> thanks for the quick reply. I'm afraid your solution doesn't fix >> the problem for me. Could it depend on the shell I'm using? I'm using >> the Fish shell. > > I haven't used fish before but I don't think it should be a problem. > > I tried to reproduce the problem in Emacs 26.0.50 (commit 211d41a) with > fish 2.3.1 on Fedora 25 but it worked correctly for me. > > I started emacs with "emacs -Q", then pasted the following into the > *scratch* buffer and evaluated it: > > (setq explicit-shell-file-name (executable-find "fish")) > > (defun my-init-shell-mode () > (setq comint-process-echoes t)) > > (with-eval-after-load 'shell > (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook #'my-init-shell-mode)) > > I then invoked `M-x shell', confirmed I was using fish, and typed a few > commands, none of which echoed the command. > > Just to be sure, perhaps it's worth trying again, and confirm that the > value of `comint-process-echoes' is t in the shell buffer? You can check > it's value by invoking `M-: comint-process-echoes RET' while the shell > buffer is current. > > John >