Hey Andreas Thanks for the thorough answer. I guess I wouldn't expect tmux to interpret any of the output as input. Sounds like I am wrinting a small filter or continuing this project outside of tmux for now then.
Thanaks for the help! Regards, Rickard söndag 1 augusti 2021 kl. 10:12:34 UTC+2 skrev [email protected]: > On 31.07.21 12:33, Rickard Carlsson wrote: > > When I run the following julia script in tmux it just stops on the print > > statement on the 39th and 40th iteration. > > The line starting with "40 Message" contains an undefined/never-ending > ANSI escape sequence: > > $ grep -a '^40 Message' output | hexdump -C > 00000000 34 30 20 4d 65 73 73 61 67 65 3a 20 33 1f 1f 1b |40 Message: 3...| > 00000010 19 1e 17 50 3d 33 57 03 50 1c 19 1b 15 50 11 50 |...P=3W.P....P.P| > 00000020 00 1f 05 1e 14 50 1f 16 50 12 11 13 1f 1e 0a |.....P..P......| > 0000002f > > The byte 0x1b (last one in the first line) starts the escape sequence > ("ESC["). But the following bytes (0x19, 0x1e, 0x17) are outside the > allowed values and tmux seems to ignore them. > It then comes across 0x50 which is the control code for starting a device > control string (DCS). Now it collects all the rest of the bytes until it > finds the string terminator (ST, "ESC[\" or 0x1b 0x5c). But there is no > such sequence in the rest of your output so there's nothing else to output. > > Here are some demo strings which should explain tmux's behavior: > > $ echo -e '\x1b\x12\x13foobar' > oobar > > (0x12 and 0x13 are ignored, ESC[f does nothing, rest is output) > > $ echo -e '\x1b\x12\x50foobar' > > (no output because 0x50 starts a never ending DCS) > > $ echo -e '\x1b\x12\x50foobar\x1b\x5cHello' > Hello > > (everything between 0x50 and 0x1b 0x5c is interpreted as DCS (which > probably does nothing) and the rest is output) > > In general I don't think you can expect any reasonable behavior if you > interpret random binary data as text. > > Bye, Andreas > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tmux-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/52404ff1-ab9a-4541-89d9-54caffabc330n%40googlegroups.com.
