My guess the issue had nothing to do with the alias addition and was something to do with Starship prompt program.Įdit 3: Answer given by NotTheDr01ds perfectly solved the issue. I didn't really do anything to it, just waited.

Looks like correct syntax to me, so now I'm even more confused why this issue is happening.Įdit 2: The terminal hanging just stopped after a while and now I'm able to do work on the terminal again. The only part that I edited was adding a new alias called starship, so just this part:Īlias starship='vi ~/.config/starship.toml' Any way to fix this issue other than reinstalling the whole distro?Įdit 1: I'm able to see the bashrc file through Windows File Explorer. bashrc file but I'm unable to even view that file, let alone edit and execute it. It's almost certain I made some sort of mistake while editing the. I am unable to ctrl+C or ctrl+z my out of anything and no prompts show up to allow for any command typing. bashrc file on VIM where all I did was add in an alias for some ls command. My terminal for any new Ubuntu instance is completely frozen with the message 'Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal' Distro: Ubuntu-18.04 (running on Windows 10 WSL2)

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