Using tmux in the terminal environment has strange encoding

[vec4]

tmux is nice to have as it lets a user easily switch between viewing some code and doing something in the terminal (such as running a tool to see its output and compare it to the source code). I can imagine a good amount of users would use tmux if they are familiar with it.

While tmux works in the environment, it seems to have issues with encoding the user and hostname. For example, freecc@node1:~$ ends up being \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h:\W$ \[\033[0m\]. It is on the container side, as the same thing happens when using tmux under docker exec.

This is a very minor bug, of course, but I wanted to make note of it as tmux is quite popular.

We may also consider having a visual tab for a second terminal environment to serve the same purpose (it would be connected to the same docker container). This is on my list of features to add for interface improvement (#110).

[ouankou]

If we create a config file for tmux under the home folder, it will show the correct prompt.

$HOME/.tmux.conf with the following content:

set-option -g default-command bash

After creating this file in the FreeCC sandbox, executing tmux looks fine. If necessary, we can add this config file while building docker images.

[vec4]

Thanks for looking into this @ouankou! I'm glad the solution is something simple. We can incorporate it if you like, but it's pretty low priority so I'm fine either way.

I still want to make the visual tab component, like the one on play-with-go. In that case, we probably don't even need tmux, although it still may be useful for the rare user who is deadset on tmux :-)