What controls how glamour renders?

[er4hn]

I'd like to better understand what controls how colors / markdown is rendered.

I am running pop_os (Ubuntu) as my base env and ssh'ing into a development container (based on ubuntu) to work. I also use vscode with the ssh -> container plugin to write code. I'm seeing the following behavior depending on my terminal shell:

(I've changed the bubbletea/glamour example to add a "#" header to Today's Menu)

• tmux session on terminal:

(Looks glamourous)

• tmux session -> ssh into container:

(no colors, header is rendered as-is)

• vscode -> ssh into container:

(colors, but header is rendered as # )

[muesli]

glamour like BubbleTea uses termenv internally, which detects your terminal's color capabilities by looking at the TERM, COLORTERM, and COLORFGBG environment variables (among other things like detecting if stdout is an actual terminal), if you're using the auto style. I would check the values of these env vars first.

[er4hn]

Thank you! I will look into this. In the meantime I also found and read this to try and educate myself further about how all of this works: https://poor.dev/blog/terminal-anatomy/ . Sharing here in case others find it useful.