Connected mates cannot see or interact with tmux command line

[biscuitvile]

When a user connects to my machine with tmate and vice versa, the remote pair cannot see the tmux command line but the user on the host machine can.

Example:

Remote user attempts to close a tmux pane, they see the standard tmux bar at the bottom as though nothing happened. The user on the host machine sees the bar change to the tmux command line with familiar kill-pane?message. If the remote connected user types y they see it in the shell, if the local user types y it takes effect as an answer to the command prompt.

This seems like my pair and I are doing something really silly, as this surely cannot be the behavior everyone else is experiencing, right?

Aside from this small quirk the ease of use of tmate blows my mind. Thanks for the amazing work!

[nviennot]

Hurm. That's definitely a bug, but I don't have the time to deal with it right now.
Thanks for reporting, stay tuned :)

[biscuitvile]

Thanks for your response! I also rolled back my tmux from version 1.9a to 1.8 and can confirm the issue is still present.

[nviennot]

Yeah, the command line (prefix + :) does not get replicated on the slave.
It's a feature I never used before, and so I neglected it.
(btw, ctrl+d in your shell instead of killing panes seems a little less violent)
Since it's not a blocking bug, I'll fix that later.

[jclusso]

any update on this?

[nviennot]

I have to finish my phd before I can work on tmate full time.
sorry about that

[nviennot]

Decoupling tmate and tmux seems beneficial to fix all sorts of issues, including this one.