[Meta]: Wezterm mux support notice

[phgz]

Category

Docs

Description

Hi,

Really great plugin which I was excited to try. However, for the integration with Wezterm, it only works if you are not multiplexing/ssh, as in

local function is_vim(pane)
  local process_name = basename(pane:get_foreground_process_name())
  return process_name == 'nvim' or process_name == 'vim'
end

The pane:get_foreground_process_name() has limitations (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/pane/get_foreground_process_name.html?h=get_foreground_process_name):

This information is only available for local panes. Multiplexer panes do not report this information. Similarly, if you are using eg: ssh to connect to a remote host, you won't be able to access the name of the remote process that is running.

This bit of information could be added in the docs for Wezterm.

Thanks!

[mrjones2014]

Hmm, wouldn't this apply to all mux backends? I don't think any would report the foreground process name over an SSH boundary, or am I mistaken?

[phgz]

I don't know about kitty, but TMUX over SSH still does report foreground process.

[phgz]

I tried kitty, and it does not seem to work over SSH either. So only TMUX supports this feature.

[mrjones2014]

Alright, thanks for testing that. I'll update the docs.

[mrjones2014]

Opened #101 for this but it would be great if there was any way around this limitation.