[Bug]: atuin not recording history inside the PyCharm terminal

[aabanic]

What did you expect to happen?

Commands to be recorded in atuin history.

What happened?

Commands are never recorded if ran in the PyCharm terminal.

Atuin doctor output

Atuin Doctor
Checking for diagnostics


Please include the output below with any bug reports or issues

{
  "atuin": {
    "version": "18.10.0",
    "commit": "37e257105ab801b49fd07a927d707a36a2e771a1",
    "sync": {
      "cloud": false,
      "records": true,
      "auto_sync": true,
      "last_sync": "2026-01-16 11:29:24.835216762 +00:00:00"
    },
    "sqlite_version": "3.46.0"
  },
  "shell": {
    "name": "bash",
    "default": "bash",
    "plugins": [
      "atuin",
      "bash-preexec"
    ],
    "preexec": "none"
  },
  "system": {
    "os": "Ubuntu",
    "arch": "x86_64",
    "version": "24.04",
    "disks": [
      {
        "name": "/dev/mapper/vg00-root",
        "filesystem": "ext4"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/disk/by-id/dm-uuid-LVM-redacted",
        "filesystem": "ext4"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/nvme0n1p2",
        "filesystem": "ext4"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/mapper/vg00-tmp",
        "filesystem": "ext4"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/mapper/vg00-var",
        "filesystem": "ext4"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/mapper/vg00-work",
        "filesystem": "ext4"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/nvme0n1p1",
        "filesystem": "vfat"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[ediebold]

Just ran into this issue myself. Not sure if we need to configure something to enable it?

[ediebold]

Looks like switching the pycharm terminal to use zsh is a workaround on my mac at least.

[aaronsewall]

Stupid workaround but it solved it for me.

Create a wrapper script, e.g. pycharm_bash.sh, make it executable with chmod +x.

#!/bin/bash
/bin/bash -i "$@"

Then in pycharm terminal settings set Application Path -> Shell Path to point to your script.

After spawning a new terminal I see bash-preexec.

$ atuin doctor | tail -n +8 | jq .shell

{
  "name": "bash",
  "default": "bash",
  "plugins": [
    "atuin"
  ],
  "preexec": "bash-preexec"
}