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Unexpected stdout chars on neovim job api with pty enabled. #182

Description

@supermomonga

Describe the bug

When attempting to start the devcontainer using the :RemoteStart command, an error occurs at the point where the provider tries to execute the devpod command using the executor and then decode the resulting stdout as JSON.

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I noticed that unexpected characters were mixed into stdout. As an experiment, I modified the implementation of executor.lua and disabled the pty option on Neovim's job API (vim.fn.jobstart()). By doing so, this error with stdout disappeared.

To reproduce

Minimal steps for reproduce:

vim.fn.jobstart without pty option

  1. Run neovim without any config using nvim -u NONE.
  2. Run :lua vim.fn.jobstart('devpod version', { pty = false, on_stdout = function(_, data, _) vim.api.nvim_echo({data}, true, {}) end })
  3. Run :mes to show echo history

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vim.fn.jobstart with pty option

  1. Run neovim without any config using nvim -u NONE.
  2. Run :lua vim.fn.jobstart('devpod version', { pty = true, on_stdout = function(_, data, _) vim.api.nvim_echo({data}, true, {}) end })
  3. Run :mes to show echo history

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Expected behavior

:RemoteStart will not fail to parse stdout

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Please see above description and reproduce steps.

System information

  • Your local OS: macOS 13.6.9
  • CPU model: Apple M2 (Apple Silicon)
  • Local Neovim version: v0.10.2
  • Remote host OS (if applicable): none
  • Remote Neovim version (if applicable): none
  • devpod cli version: v0.6.1

Additional context

I'm using macOS's default terminal app and default shell (zsh).

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