Terminal leaving a blank line on High Sierra when tabs are used

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Since the upgrade from El Capitain to High Sierra (I jumped over Sierra), my terminal leaves a blank line at the very bottom as soon as I open another tab. See picture as example:

Mac Terminal

Here is my ~/.bash_profile

# Beautify bash prompt
function parse_git_branch {
  git branch --no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/on \1/'
}
export PS1="\e[1;30m\u\e[m in \e[0;34m\w\e[m \e[0;32m\$(parse_git_branch)\e[m \e[0;37m// \$(date '+%H:%M')\e[m\n$ "

# Extend PATH for Homebrew
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"
export PATH="$(brew --prefix homebrew/php/php70)/bin:$PATH"

# Alias definitions.
# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    . ~/.bash_aliases
fi

It is not a big issue, but somewhat annoying especially when working with tmux during ssh sessions.

Does anyone know what is causing this or how I might resolve it?

Best Answer

I was able to fix this, at least temporarily, by opening the Inspector via Shell -> Show Inspector, going to the info tab, and reducing the "columns" by 1. Then I dragged the window back to the desired size and it seems to look proper now. I had to do that for each tab. It seems to need to be done again every time I restart terminal, which is monumentally annoying, but fortunately I don't close it all that often. It seems to work, at least as a kludgy workaround. Good luck.

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