Cannot copy in fish anymore

[JorySeverijnse]

When i try to paste text into fish i got the following

commandline: --insert-smart: unknown option

/usr/share/fish/functions/__fish_paste.fish (line 46):
        commandline --insert-smart -- $data
        ^
in function '__fish_paste' with arguments 'copy doesnt work'

(Type 'help commandline' for related documentation)

Happend after i updated fish shell to the latest version.
Temporary fix is just remove --insert-smart inside /usr/share/fish/functions/__fish_paste.fish manually

fish --version fish, version 4.1.0
echo $version 4.0.8
Linux archlinux 6.16.8-arch3-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:08:35 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[krobelus]

fish --version fish, version 4.1.0 echo $version 4.0.8

your fish 4.0.8 install was overritten and now the running shell is using new files from fish 4.1.0. You need to restart after upgrades. We currently don't test this scenario. Embedded builds won't have this problem.

[kiloutyg]

Hello!
Same issue, same solution!
A clean reboot and that's it!

Thanks for the answer!

[krobelus]

no need to restart the whole OS, restarting all instances of fish is enough :)

[Yutsuten]

I did a reboot but the issue persists, maybe it's a different one? Should I create a new issue? For me, I'm pasting into a read that is in a fish script (my nnn plugins are fish scripts).

Using fish 4.1.1

commandline: Can not set commandline in non-interactive mode

/usr/share/fish/functions/__fish_paste.fish (line 1):
in command substitution
        called on line 1 of file /usr/share/fish/functions/__fish_paste.fish
in command substitution
        called on line 17 of file /usr/share/fish/functions/__fish_paste.fish
in function '__fish_paste' with arguments '00:13:43.423'
        called on line 1 of file ~/.config/nnn/plugins/ffmpeg

(Type 'help commandline' for related documentation)
__fish_tokenizer_state: expected >= 1 arguments; got 0
commandline: Can not set commandline in non-interactive mode

/usr/share/fish/functions/__fish_paste.fish (line 1):
in command substitution
        called on line 40 of file /usr/share/fish/functions/__fish_paste.fish
in function '__fish_paste' with arguments '00:13:43.423'
        called on line 1 of file ~/.config/nnn/plugins/ffmpeg

(Type 'help commandline' for related documentation)
commandline: Can not set commandline in non-interactive mode

/usr/share/fish/functions/__fish_paste.fish (line 47):
        commandline --insert-smart -- $data
        ^
in function '__fish_paste' with arguments '00:13:43.423'
        called on line 1 of file ~/.config/nnn/plugins/ffmpeg

(Type 'help commandline' for related documentation)

[krobelus]

@Yutsuten thanks, that was another regression, I'll push a fix today for the imminent 4.1.2 patch release

[seowalex]

I am still seeing this in fish 4.2.0.

[krobelus]

which issue? if it's the first one, then restart fish. Future upgrades won't have this issue

[seowalex]

Ah, I thought I had killed my tmux session but I had not (and so was using the old version). Apologies for the confusion.