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refs #3672

fish only turns off its own prompt repaint on resize for terminals it knows reflow text (VTE, Konsole, Alacritty, WezTerm). herdr reflows too, but fish identifies it as libghostty and keeps fish_handle_reflow=1. its repaint then fights the reflow, and every resize glues another fragment of the prompt onto one ever-growing line.

panes now start with fish_handle_reflow=0, the value fish picks itself for reflowing terminals. an inherited value or an explicit --env / plugin launch value is kept. the check matches the exact lowercase name, so an inherited FISH_HANDLE_REFLOW on windows doesn't suppress it (msys/cygwin fish is case-sensitive). no shell startup files are touched, and nothing else in the env changes.

validation:

• just check passes (incl. windows lint)
• unit tests: default is 0, an existing entry and an explicit launch value win, other casing doesn't count; one test spawns a real pane process and reads the value back
• live: fish 4.9.3 in a throwaway session, echo $fish_handle_reflow → 0. 3 rounds of 50 split-drag resizes leave a single clean prompt. the same drag with fish_handle_reflow=1 leaves 141 glued fragments.

not covered: typing while the prompt is wrapped can still leave a stale fragment. a terminal-side fix was tried and rejected because it breaks zsh's own line wrapping.

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Pane environment setup now adds fish_handle_reflow=0 when the exact lowercase key is absent. Existing lowercase values are preserved, and explicit launch-environment values can override the default. Tests cover these cases and check the value observed by a spawned pane. The CLI reference documents this behavior.

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Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0de0f

A Unix pane test can time out when the host provides a non-UTF-8 value, but this is a narrow test-environment issue rather than a production behavior risk.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0de0f

The new default controls fish prompt repainting in newly launched panes. Existing launch overrides remain authoritative, and the inspected change does not expand permissions, credential access, or process authority. No material security risk was identified.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed behavior reaches newly launched pane processes across the shared launch methods and may be inherited by their descendants. The introduced value is a fixed prompt-reflow setting, not a credential, identity token, executable path, or permission grant.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Caller-provided launch environment values use the existing environment-map interface. The new branch inserts only a constant into that map; it adds no command evaluation, credential lookup, or new authority-bearing launch operation.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly states the main change: tell fish that herdr reflows its prompt on resize.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the fish resize issue, the environment-variable change, preserved values, and validation results.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 81.82% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 11 functions across 1 files.
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6386-6435: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Make the integration test independent of the host environment.

The test expects the value of fish_handle_reflow from the test process, or 0 if it is unset. PaneLaunchEnv::default() adds no override. The test therefore does not verify the default when the CI shell exports a value. The test still passes in that case, because the inherited value is expected. This is acceptable but it weakens coverage. Consider building the command with CommandBuilder and env_remove, as the unit tests do, to assert 0 deterministically.

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Review comment at @src/pane.rs around lines 6386 - 6435:
Update spawned_pane_process_sees_fish_handle_reflow to remove the inherited
FISH_HANDLE_REFLOW_ENV_VAR from the spawned command’s environment, using the
existing CommandBuilder approach, and assert that the child observes the
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[Low risk] Sets an environment variable for shell compatibility.

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Summary

The PR sets fish_handle_reflow=0 for new panes unless a value is already present or explicitly supplied, documents the behavior, and tests that a spawned pane receives the value. The change since the previous review replaces a shell-quoted temporary path with a relative output file under the pane’s cwd.

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