atuinsh/atuin · error

PREVIEW_WIDTH is nonzero

Error message

PREVIEW_WIDTH is nonzero

What it means

Error "PREVIEW_WIDTH is nonzero" thrown in atuinsh/atuin.

Source

Thrown at crates/atuin-ai/src/tools/mod.rs:949

        Ok(status) => status.code(),
        Err(e) => {
            if interrupted {
                None
            } else {
                return ToolOutcome::Error(format!("Failed to wait for command: {e}"));
            }
        }
    };

    let duration = start.elapsed();

    // Send final screen state
    let final_lines = vt100_screen_lines(parser.screen());
    let _ = output_tx.send(final_lines).await;

    // Strip ANSI escape sequences for clean LLM output by running
    // the raw bytes through a VT100 parser and extracting plain text.
    let cols = NonZeroU16::new(PREVIEW_WIDTH).expect("PREVIEW_WIDTH is nonzero");
    let stdout_text = ansi::to_plain_text(&full_stdout, cols);
    let stderr_text = ansi::to_plain_text(&full_stderr, cols);

    ToolOutcome::Structured {
        stdout: stdout_text,
        stderr: stderr_text,
        exit_code,
        duration_ms: duration.as_millis() as u64,
        interrupted,
    }
}

#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub(crate) struct AtuinHistoryToolCall {
    pub filter_modes: Vec<HistorySearchFilterMode>,
    pub query: String,
    pub limit: i64,
    pub only_failed: bool,

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Solutions

1. Unset PREVIEW_WIDTH or set it to 0 before running this command.

When it happens

Trigger: Fires when the preview layout invariant is violated because PREVIEW_WIDTH is nonzero where zero was required.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of atuinsh/atuin@15fe1318f1 (2026-08-19). Data as JSON: /api/errors/b9cd5ff1e23f351f. Report an issue: GitHub.