SBT tasks / commands just provide random letters of the command

Hello, Petter!

Thank you for reporting this!

Does the regular sbt shell (ran from IDEA"s Terminal or OS Command Prompt) work as intended?

Could you please share the full output from IDEA's sbt shell and a screenshot of the sbt settings?

Hi, the first image is SBT Shell in IDEA.

Intellij => Terminal → sbt compile works fine

Windows CMD terminal → sbt compile works fine.

This is the initial output in sbt shell before I start writing:

C:\Users\yh96\.jdks\openjdk-22.0.1\bin\java.exe -server -Xmx1536M -Dsbt.supershell=false -Dgrouping.with.qualified.names.enabled=true -Didea.managed=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 "-Didea.installation.dir=C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1.1" -Dsbt.log.noformat=true -Dsun.stdout.encoding=windows-1252 -Dsun.stderr.encoding=windows-1252 -jar C:\Users\yh96\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\IntelliJIdea2024.1\plugins\Scala\launcher\sbt-launch.jar early(addPluginSbtFile=\"\"\"C:\Users\yh96\AppData\Local\Temp\idea1.sbt\"\"\") "; set ideaPort in Global := 55617 ; idea-shell"
[info] welcome to sbt 1.10.0 (Oracle Corporation Java 22.0.1)
[info] loading settings for project course-catalog-build from plugins.sbt,idea1.sbt ...
[info] loading project definition from C:\git\course-catalog\project
C:\git\course-catalog\build.sbt:32: warning: method sonatypeRepo in class ResolverFunctions is deprecated (since 1.7.0): Use sonatypeOssRepos instead e.g. `resolvers ++= Resolver.sonatypeOssRepos("snapshots")`
 Resolver.sonatypeRepo("public"),
          ^
C:\git\course-catalog\build.sbt:33: warning: method sonatypeRepo in class ResolverFunctions is deprecated (since 1.7.0): Use sonatypeOssRepos instead e.g. `resolvers ++= Resolver.sonatypeOssRepos("snapshots")`
 Resolver.sonatypeRepo("releases"),
          ^
C:\git\course-catalog\build.sbt:34: warning: method sonatypeRepo in class ResolverFunctions is deprecated (since 1.7.0): Use sonatypeOssRepos instead e.g. `resolvers ++= Resolver.sonatypeOssRepos("snapshots")`
 Resolver.sonatypeRepo("snapshots"),
          ^
C:\git\course-catalog\build.sbt:51: warning: method in in trait ScopingSetting is deprecated (since 1.5.0): `in` is deprecated; migrate to slash syntax - https://www.scala-sbt.org/1.x/docs/Migrating-from-sbt-013x.html#slash
   parallelExecution in Test     := false,
                     ^
C:\git\course-catalog\build.sbt:11: warning: method in in trait ScopingSetting is deprecated (since 1.5.0): `in` is deprecated; migrate to slash syntax - https://www.scala-sbt.org/1.x/docs/Migrating-from-sbt-013x.html#slash
shellPrompt in ThisBuild := { state => Project.extract(state).currentRef.project + "> " }
           ^
[info] loading settings for project root from build.sbt ...
[info] set current project to CourseCatalogService (in build file:/C:/git/course-catalog/)
[info] Installing the s3:// URLStreamHandler via java.net.URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory
[info] Creating a new Ivy URLHandlerDispatcher to handle s3:// URLs
[warn] there's a key that's not used by any other settings/tasks:
[warn]
[warn] * root / parallelExecution
[warn]   +- C:\git\course-catalog\build.sbt:50
[warn]
[warn] note: a setting might still be used by a command; to exclude a key from this `lintUnused` check
[warn] either append it to `Global / excludeLintKeys` or call .withRank(KeyRanks.Invisible) on the key
[info] Defining Global / ideaPort
[info] The new value will be used by Compile / compile, Test / compile
[info] Reapplying settings...
[info] set current project to CourseCatalogService (in build file:/C:/git/course-catalog/)

Thank you for sharing the details!

This appears to be a rather unique behavior, I have not been able to reproduce yet.

Please try the following options:

1. Disable the downloaded Plugins (backup disabled_plugins.txt, Settings → Plugins → Cogwheel Icon → Disable All Downloaded Plugins)
2. Revert to the default settings (backup the settings: File → Manage IDE Settings → Export Settings…, reset to defaults: File → Manage IDE Settings → Restore Default Settings…)
3. File → Repair IDE