## What changed
- Accept two-stroke bindings such as `ctrl-x ctrl-s` in TUI keymap configuration while preserving arrays as alternative bindings.
- Route chords through the active TUI context, show pending and configured chord hints, and cancel pending chords on `esc`, context changes, or a one-second timeout.
- Extend `/keymap` to capture, add, replace, and display key chords.
- Reject chords that conflict with active single-key bindings, overlapping-context chords, or reserved terminal shortcuts.
## Testing
- Add coverage for chord parsing, validation, matching, timeout and cancellation behavior, context dispatch, key capture, and rendered shortcut hints.
GitOrigin-RevId: dfdede03f518d4936ad8621ebf5537026f2b282e
## What changed
- Use Ratatui-compatible terminal widths throughout TUI layout, preserving
full-width counters for long lines.
- Wrap and truncate on grapheme boundaries so halfwidth kana sound marks and
emoji sequences stay intact.
- Apply the corrected sizing to text input, selection popups, status and
history cells, Markdown, hyperlinks, and scrollable cloud diffs.
## Testing
- Add focused unit and snapshot coverage for wrapping, truncation, cursor and
mask alignment, popup columns, status output, session headers, Markdown
tables, process output, and scrollable diffs.
GitOrigin-RevId: 294ec0bcff743c6bb16d55ec26308524ce741879
## Why
Tabs in composer text could render at a different width from the cursor and
wrapping calculations, causing misaligned cursors and unexpected line breaks.
## What changed
- Replace tabs with single-column spaces for wrapping and rendering while
preserving the original editable text and byte ranges.
- Apply the same display representation to base text, styled elements, and
highlighted ranges.
## Testing
Add coverage for cursor alignment, rendered output, and wrapping of text that
contains tabs.
GitOrigin-RevId: 06d8489621d2f8b0823c7a004079d152dd0cab66
## What changed
- Resolve `@` and `$` completion targets on either side of the cursor while treating atomic text elements and line breaks as boundaries.
- Prefer the nearest editable mention when file, skill, and plugin candidates compete, and avoid treating common uppercase environment variables as skill queries.
- Insert a separator before completions adjacent to atomic elements and keep dismissed popup state scoped to the matching editable token occurrence.
## Testing
- Add unit and snapshot coverage for adjacent and partially bound mentions, whitespace boundaries, shell variables, popup dismissal, and file, image, skill, and plugin insertion.
GitOrigin-RevId: 352a42c7bcdbf4f6cd35368ced25f71926fdbc1b
## Why
Removes the realtime audio support from TUI.
## What Changed
- Removed the TUI `/realtime` and realtime `/settings` command paths.
- Deleted TUI voice capture/playback, WebRTC session handling,
audio-device selection UI, and recording-meter code.
- Removed TUI realtime tests and snapshots that covered the deleted
surfaces.
- Dropped the TUI-only `cpal` and `codex-realtime-webrtc` dependencies
and refreshed the Rust/Bazel locks.
## Summary
- add Vim normal-mode `s` support to substitute the character under the
cursor and enter insert mode
- fix Vim normal-mode `o` so opening below the final line moves the
cursor onto the new blank line
- update keymap config/schema and keymap picker snapshots for the new
action
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just test -p codex-config`
- focused `just test -p codex-tui` coverage for the Vim `s` and `o`
behavior, keymap conflict handling, and keymap picker snapshots
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots --manifest-path tui/Cargo.toml`
- `git diff --check`
## Notes
A full `just test -p codex-tui` run still has two unrelated Guardian
feature-flag failures in this checkout:
-
`app::tests::update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_clears_review_policy_and_restores_default`
-
`app::tests::update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_clears_manual_review_policy_without_history`
## Why
Vim mode currently supports some normal-mode operators and motions, but
common text-object combinations like `ciw`, `daw`, `di(`, and
quote/bracket variants are still missing. That makes the composer feel
incomplete for users who expect operator + text object editing to work
inside prompts.
Closes#21383.
## What Changed
- Add Vim pending-state support for operator/text-object sequences.
- Add `c` as a normal-mode operator for text objects, so combinations
like `ciw` delete the object and enter insert mode.
- Support word, WORD, delimiter, and quote text objects:
- `iw`, `aw`, `iW`, `aW`
- `i(`, `a(`, `i)`, `a)`, `ib`, `ab`
- `i[`, `a[`, `i]`, `a]`
- `i{`, `a{`, `i}`, `a}`, `iB`, `aB`
- `i"`, `a"`, `i'`, `a'`, `i\``, `a\``
- Add configurable keymap entries and keymap picker coverage for the new
Vim text-object context.
- Regenerate the config schema and update keymap picker snapshots.
## How to Test
Manual smoke test:
1. Start Codex with Vim composer mode enabled.
2. Type a draft such as:
```text
alpha beta gamma
call(foo[bar], {"x": "hello world"})
say "one \"two\" three" now
```
3. Put the cursor on `beta`, press `ciw`, and confirm `beta` is removed
and the composer enters insert mode.
4. Escape back to normal mode, put the cursor on `gamma`, press `daw`,
and confirm `gamma` plus surrounding whitespace is removed.
5. Put the cursor inside `foo[bar]`, press `di[`, and confirm only `bar`
is removed.
6. Put the cursor inside `call(...)`, press `da(`, and confirm the whole
parenthesized section is removed.
7. Put the cursor inside the quoted text, press `ci"`, and confirm the
quote contents are removed and insert mode starts.
8. Verify cancellation does not edit text: press `d` then `Esc`, and
press `d` then `i` then `Esc`.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui --lib vim_`
- `cargo nextest run -p codex-tui keymap_setup::tests`
Additional local checks:
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
- `git diff --check`
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots --manifest-path tui/Cargo.toml`
Local full-suite note: `just test -p codex-tui` ran to completion. The
keymap snapshot failures were expected and accepted. Two unrelated
guardian feature-flag tests still fail locally:
-
`app::tests::update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_clears_review_policy_and_restores_default`
-
`app::tests::update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_clears_manual_review_policy_without_history`
`just argument-comment-lint` is currently blocked locally by Bazel
analysis before the lint runs because `compiler-rt` has an empty
`include/sanitizer/*.h` glob in the local Bazel cache. The touched Rust
diff was manually inspected for opaque positional literals.
## Why
The TUI Vim composer currently diverges from normal Vim editing in two
common workflows: pressing `e` repeatedly can remain stuck at an
existing word end, and normal mode does not support `C` for changing
through the end of the line. The existing `D` behavior also removes the
newline when the cursor is already at the line boundary, which makes the
new `C` action and existing deletion action surprising in multiline
prompts.
Closes#23926.
Closes#24238.
## What Changed
- Make normal-mode `e` advance from the current word end to the next
word end, including for operator motions such as `de`.
- Add configurable Vim normal-mode `change_to_line_end` behavior, bound
to `C` by default, which deletes to the end of the current line and
enters Insert mode.
- Keep the newline intact when `D` or `C` is pressed at the end-of-line
boundary.
- Add regression coverage for repeated `e`, `de`, `C`, and the multiline
`C`/`D` boundary behavior.
- Regenerate the config schema and update the keymap picker snapshots
for the new Vim action.
## How to Test
1. Run Codex with Vim composer mode enabled:
```bash
cd codex-rs
cargo run --bin codex -- -c tui.vim_mode_default=true
```
2. Enter `alpha beta gamma`, press `Esc`, `0`, then press `e`
repeatedly.
Confirm the cursor advances through the ends of `alpha`, `beta`, and
`gamma`.
3. Enter `hello world`, press `Esc`, `0`, `w`, then `C`.
Confirm `world` is deleted and the composer enters Insert mode.
4. Enter a multiline prompt with `hello` above `world`, press `Esc`,
`k`, `$`, and then `D`.
Confirm the newline is preserved and the two lines do not join.
5. At the same boundary, press `C` and type `!`.
Confirm the composer enters Insert mode and yields `hello!` above
`world`, preserving the newline.
Targeted automated verification:
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
- `just argument-comment-lint-from-source -p codex-tui -p codex-config`
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots` reports no pending snapshots.
- `just test -p codex-tui` validates the new Vim and keymap snapshot
coverage, but the command remains red due to two reproducible unrelated
failures in `app::tests::update_feature_flags_disabling_guardian_*`.
## Validation Note
The workspace-wide `just argument-comment-lint` form is currently
blocked during Bazel analysis by the existing LLVM `compiler-rt` missing
`include/sanitizer/*.h` failure; package-scoped source linting for the
changed Rust crates passed.
## Why
We added Zellij-specific TUI workarounds because older Zellij behavior
did not work with Codex's normal terminal model:
- #8555 made `tui.alternate_screen = "auto"` disable alternate screen in
Zellij so transcript history stayed available.
- #16578 avoided scroll-region operations in Zellij by emitting raw
newlines and using a separate composer styling path.
This PR removes both workarounds because the latest Zellij release
tested locally (`zellij 0.44.1`) works correctly with Codex's standard
TUI behavior: normal alternate-screen handling, redraw, and history
insertion.
## What Changed
- Removed the `InsertHistoryMode::Zellij` path and the Zellij-only
newline scrollback insertion behavior.
- Removed cached `is_zellij` state from the TUI and composer.
- Removed Zellij-specific composer styling, the helper snapshot, and the
`TerminalInfo::is_zellij()` convenience method that only served this
workaround.
- Changed `tui.alternate_screen = "auto"` to use alternate screen for
Zellij too; `--no-alt-screen` and `tui.alternate_screen = "never"` still
preserve the inline mode escape hatch.
- Updated the generated config schema description for
`tui.alternate_screen`.
## How to Test
Manual smoke path used with `zellij 0.44.1`:
1. Build and run this branch inside a Zellij `0.44.1` session with
default config.
2. Start Codex normally and produce enough assistant/tool output to
create scrollback.
3. Confirm the transcript remains readable, the composer renders
normally, and scrolling through terminal history works.
4. Resize the Zellij pane while output exists and confirm the TUI
redraws without duplicated, missing, or stale rows.
5. Compare with `--no-alt-screen` or `-c tui.alternate_screen=never` if
you want to verify the inline fallback still works.
Targeted tests:
- `just write-config-schema`
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-tui`
- `cargo test -p codex-terminal-detection`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui alternate_screen_auto_uses_alt_screen`
Attempted but did not complete locally:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui` built and ran the new test successfully,
then failed later on unrelated local failures in
`status_permissions_full_disk_managed_*` and a stack overflow in
`tests::fork_last_filters_latest_session_by_cwd_unless_show_all`.
## Documentation
No developers.openai.com Codex documentation update is needed for this
revert.
## Why
Fixes#21046.
Codex TUI 0.128.0 can show Backspace/Delete-related editor shortcuts in
`/keymap`, but Windows-style modified Backspace/Delete events were still
dropped by the composer because the default editor keymap did not
include those modified special-key variants. On Windows/CMD this meant
`Shift+Backspace` and `Shift+Delete` did not fall through to normal
character deletion, and `Ctrl+Backspace` / `Ctrl+Delete` did not perform
the word deletion users expect from Windows text inputs.
## What Changed
- Added default editor bindings for `shift-backspace` and `shift-delete`
so shifted delete keys keep normal grapheme deletion behavior.
- Added default editor bindings for `ctrl-backspace`,
`ctrl-shift-backspace`, `ctrl-delete`, and `ctrl-shift-delete` so
Windows-style word deletion works when terminals preserve those
modifiers.
- Added regression coverage for the resolved default keymap and textarea
behavior.
## How to Test
1. Start Codex in the TUI on Windows CMD or another terminal that
reports modified Backspace/Delete keys distinctly.
2. Type `hello world` in the composer.
3. Press `Ctrl+Backspace`; confirm `world` is removed and `hello `
remains.
4. Type `world` again, move the cursor before it, then press
`Ctrl+Delete`; confirm the next word is removed.
5. Type a few characters and press `Shift+Backspace` and `Shift+Delete`;
confirm they delete one character in the expected direction instead of
doing nothing.
6. Open `/keymap`, inspect the Editor deletion actions, and confirm the
modified Backspace/Delete aliases are visible as configurable defaults.
Targeted tests:
- `cargo test -p codex-tui keymap::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui bottom_pane::textarea::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui keymap_setup::tests`
## Summary
- normalize terminal-emitted C0 control characters through configurable
editor keymaps, covering raw control-key fallbacks like
Shift+Enter-as-LF in terminals from #20555 and #20898, plus part of the
modified-Enter behavior in #20580
- add default-unbound keymap actions for toggling Fast mode and killing
the current composer line, giving #20698 users a configurable zsh-style
Ctrl+U option without changing the existing default Ctrl+U behavior
- wire the new actions through gated /keymap picker entries, schema
generation, and snapshot coverage
Fixes#20555.
Fixes#20898.
## Testing
- just write-config-schema
- just fmt
- cargo test -p codex-config
- cargo test -p codex-tui keymap::tests
- cargo test -p codex-tui bottom_pane::textarea::tests
- cargo test -p codex-tui keymap_setup::tests
- cargo insta pending-snapshots
- just fix -p codex-tui
- git diff --check
- just argument-comment-lint
## Why
Codex now has configurable TUI keymaps, but the composer still behaves
like a plain text field. Users who prefer modal editing need a way to
keep Vim muscle memory while drafting prompts, and the keymap picker
needs to expose Vim-specific actions if those bindings are configurable
instead of hardcoded.
## What Changed
- Adds composer Vim mode with insert/normal state, common normal-mode
movement and editing commands, `d`/`y` operator-pending flows, and
mode-aware footer and cursor indicators.
- Adds `/vim`, an optional global `toggle_vim_mode` binding, and
`tui.vim_mode_default` so Vim mode can be toggled per session or enabled
as the default composer state.
- Extends runtime and config keymaps with `vim_normal` and
`vim_operator` contexts, exposes those contexts in `/keymap`, refreshes
the config schema, and validates Vim bindings separately.
- Integrates Vim normal mode with existing composer behavior: `/` opens
slash command entry, `!` enters shell mode, `j`/`k` navigate history at
history boundaries, successful submissions reset back to normal mode,
and paste burst handling remains insert-mode only.
- Teaches the TUI render path to apply and restore cursor style so Vim
insert mode can use a bar cursor without leaving the terminal in that
state after exit.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-tui keymap -- --nocapture` on the keymap/Vim
coverage
- `cargo insta pending-snapshots`
## Docs
This introduces user-facing `/vim`, `tui.vim_mode_default`, and Vim
keymap contexts under `tui.keymap`, so the public CLI configuration and
slash-command docs should be updated before the feature ships.
## Why
The TUI currently handles keyboard shortcuts as hard-coded event matches
spread across app, composer, pager, list, approval, and navigation code.
That makes shortcuts hard to customize, makes displayed hints easy to
drift from actual behavior, and makes future keymap work riskier because
there is no central action inventory.
This PR adds the foundation for configurable, action-based keymaps
without adding the interactive remapping UI yet. Onboarding
intentionally stays on fixed startup shortcuts because users cannot
reasonably configure keymaps before completing onboarding.
This is PR1 in the keymap stack:
- PR1: #18593: configurable keymap foundation
- PR2: #18594: `/keymap` picker and guided remapping UI
- PR3: #18595: Vim composer mode and the remap option
## Design Notes
The new model resolves named actions into concrete runtime bindings once
from config, then passes those bindings to the UI surfaces that handle
input or render shortcut hints.
The main concepts are:
- **Context**: a scope where an action is active, such as `global`,
`chat`, `composer`, `editor`, `pager`, `list`, or `approval`.
- **Action**: a named operation inside a context, such as
`global.open_transcript`, `composer.submit`, or `pager.close`.
- **Binding**: one or more single-key shortcuts assigned to an action,
written as config strings such as `ctrl-t`, `alt-backspace`, or
`page-down`. Multi-step sequences such as `ctrl-x ctrl-s`, `g g`, or
leader-key flows are not part of this PR.
- **Resolution order**: context-specific config wins first, supported
global fallbacks come next, and built-in defaults fill in anything
unset.
- **Explicit unbinding**: an empty array removes an action binding in
that scope and does not fall through to a fallback binding.
- **Conflict validation**: a resolved keymap rejects duplicate active
bindings inside the same scope so one keypress cannot dispatch two
actions.
## What Changed
- Added `TuiKeymap` config support under `[tui.keymap]`, including typed
contexts/actions, key alias normalization, generated schema coverage,
and user-facing config errors.
- Added `RuntimeKeymap` resolution in `codex-rs/tui/src/keymap.rs`,
including fallback precedence, built-in defaults, explicit unbinding,
and per-context conflict validation.
- Rewired existing TUI handlers to consume resolved keymap actions
instead of directly matching hard-coded keys in each component.
- Updated key hint rendering and footer/pager/list surfaces so displayed
shortcuts follow the resolved keymap.
- Kept onboarding shortcuts fixed in
`codex-rs/tui/src/onboarding/keys.rs` instead of exposing them through
`[tui.keymap]`.
## Validation
The branch includes focused coverage for config parsing, key
normalization, runtime fallback resolution, explicit unbinding,
duplicate-key conflict validation, default keymap consistency,
onboarding startup key behavior, and UI hint snapshots affected by
resolved key bindings.
## Problem
The TUI had shell-style Up/Down history recall, but `Ctrl+R` did not
provide the reverse incremental search workflow users expect from
shells. Users needed a way to search older prompts without immediately
replacing the current draft, and the interaction needed to handle async
persistent history, repeated navigation keys, duplicate prompt text,
footer hints, and preview highlighting without making the main composer
file even harder to review.
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## Mental model
`Ctrl+R` opens a temporary search session owned by the composer. The
footer line becomes the search input, the composer body previews the
current match only after the query has text, and `Enter` accepts that
preview as an editable draft while `Esc` restores the draft that existed
before search started. The history layer provides a combined offset
space over persistent and local history, but search navigation exposes
unique prompt text rather than every physical history row.
## Non-goals
This change does not rewrite stored history, change normal Up/Down
browsing semantics, add fuzzy matching, or add persistent metadata for
attachments in cross-session history. Search deduplication is
deliberately scoped to the active Ctrl+R search session and uses exact
prompt text, so case, whitespace, punctuation, and attachment-only
differences are not normalized.
## Tradeoffs
The implementation keeps search state in the existing composer and
history state machines instead of adding a new cross-module controller.
That keeps ownership local and testable, but it means the composer still
coordinates visible search status, draft restoration, footer rendering,
cursor placement, and match highlighting while `ChatComposerHistory`
owns traversal, async fetch continuation, boundary clamping, and
unique-result caching. Unique-result caching stores cloned
`HistoryEntry` values so known matches can be revisited without cache
lookups; this is simple and robust for interactive search sizes, but it
is not a global history index.
## Architecture
`ChatComposer` detects `Ctrl+R`, snapshots the current draft, switches
the footer to `FooterMode::HistorySearch`, and routes search-mode keys
before normal editing. Query edits call `ChatComposerHistory::search`
with `restart = true`, which starts from the newest combined-history
offset. Repeated `Ctrl+R` or Up searches older; Down searches newer
through already discovered unique matches or continues the scan.
Persistent history entries still arrive asynchronously through
`on_entry_response`, where a pending search either accepts the response,
skips a duplicate, or requests the next offset.
The composer-facing pieces now live in
`codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/chat_composer/history_search.rs`, leaving
`chat_composer.rs` responsible for routing and rendering integration
instead of owning every search helper inline.
`codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/chat_composer_history.rs` remains the
owner of stored history, combined offsets, async fetch state, boundary
semantics, and duplicate suppression. Match highlighting is computed
from the current composer text while search is active and disappears
when the match is accepted.
## Observability
There are no new logs or telemetry. The practical debug path is state
inspection: `ChatComposer.history_search` tells whether the footer query
is idle, searching, matched, or unmatched; `ChatComposerHistory.search`
tracks selected raw offsets, pending persistent fetches, exhausted
directions, and unique match cache state. If a user reports skipped or
repeated results, first inspect the exact stored prompt text, the
selected offset, whether an async persistent response is still pending,
and whether a query edit restarted the search session.
## Tests
The change is covered by focused `codex-tui` unit tests for opening
search without previewing the latest entry, accepting and canceling
search, no-match restoration, boundary clamping, footer hints,
case-insensitive highlighting, local duplicate skipping, and persistent
duplicate skipping through async responses. Snapshot coverage captures
the footer-mode visual changes. Local verification used `just fmt`,
`cargo test -p codex-tui history_search`, `cargo test -p codex-tui`, and
`just fix -p codex-tui`.
Addresses #16584
Problem: TUI word-wise cursor movement treated entire CJK runs as a
single word, so Option/Alt+Left and Right skipped too far when editing
East Asian text.
Solution: Use Unicode word-boundary segments within each non-whitespace
run so CJK text advances one segment at a time while preserving
separator and delete-word behavior, and add regression coverage for CJK
and mixed-script navigation.
Testing: Manually tested solution by pasting text that includes CJK
characters into the composer and confirmed that keyboard navigation
worked correctly (after confirming it didn't prior to the change).
## TL;DR
Fixes the issues when using Codex CLI with Zellij multiplexer. Before
this PR there would be no scrollback when using it inside a zellij
terminal.
## Problem
Addresses #2558
Zellij does not support ANSI scroll-region manipulation (`DECSTBM` /
Reverse Index) or the alternate screen buffer in the way traditional
terminals do. When codex's TUI runs inside Zellij, two things break: (1)
inline history insertion corrupts the display because the scroll-region
escape sequences are silently dropped or mishandled, and (2) the
composer textarea renders with inherited background/foreground styles
that produce unreadable text against Zellij's pane chrome.
## Mental model
The fix introduces a **Zellij mode** — a runtime boolean detected once
at startup via `codex_terminal_detection::terminal_info().is_zellij()` —
that gates two subsystems onto Zellij-safe terminal strategies:
- **History insertion** (`insert_history.rs`): Instead of using
`DECSTBM` scroll regions and Reverse Index (`ESC M`) to slide content
above the viewport, Zellij mode scrolls the screen by emitting `\n` at
the bottom row and then writes history lines at absolute positions. This
avoids every escape sequence Zellij mishandles.
- **Viewport expansion** (`tui.rs`): When the viewport grows taller than
available space, the standard path uses `scroll_region_up` on the
backend. Zellij mode instead emits newlines at the screen bottom to push
content up, then invalidates the ratatui diff buffer so the next draw is
a full repaint.
- **Composer rendering** (`chat_composer.rs`, `textarea.rs`): All text
rendering in the input area uses an explicit `base_style` with
`Color::Reset` foreground, preventing Zellij's pane styling from
bleeding into the textarea. The prompt chevron (`›`) and placeholder
text use explicit color constants instead of relying on `.bold()` /
`.dim()` modifiers that render inconsistently under Zellij.
## Non-goals
- This change does not fix or improve Zellij's terminal emulation
itself.
- It does not rearchitect the inline viewport model; it adds a parallel
code path gated on detection.
- It does not touch the alternate-screen disable logic (that already
existed and continues to use `is_zellij` via the same detection).
## Tradeoffs
- **Code duplication in `insert_history.rs`**: The Zellij and Standard
branches share the line-rendering loop (color setup, span merging,
`write_spans`) but differ in the scrolling preamble. The duplication is
intentional — merging them would force a complex conditional state
machine that's harder to reason about than two flat sequences.
- **`invalidate_viewport` after every Zellij history flush or viewport
expansion**: This forces a full repaint on every draw cycle in Zellij,
which is more expensive than ratatui's normal diff-based rendering. This
is necessary because Zellij's lack of scroll-region support means the
diff buffer's assumptions about what's on screen are invalid after we
manually move content.
- **Explicit colors vs semantic modifiers**: Replacing `.bold()` /
`.dim()` with `Color::Cyan` / `Color::DarkGray` / `Color::White` in the
Zellij branch sacrifices theme-awareness for correctness. If the project
ever adopts a theming system, Zellij styling will need to participate.
## Architecture
The Zellij detection flag flows through three layers:
1. **`codex_terminal_detection`** — `TerminalInfo::is_zellij()` (new
convenience method) reads the already-detected `Multiplexer` variant.
2. **`Tui` struct** — caches `is_zellij` at construction; passes it into
`update_inline_viewport`, `flush_pending_history_lines`, and
`insert_history_lines_with_mode`.
3. **`ChatComposer` struct** — independently caches `is_zellij` at
construction; uses it in `render_textarea` for style decisions.
The two caches (`Tui.is_zellij` and `ChatComposer.is_zellij`) are read
from the same global `OnceLock<TerminalInfo>`, so they always agree.
## Observability
No new logging, metrics, or tracing is introduced. Diagnosis depends on:
- Whether `ZELLIJ` or `ZELLIJ_SESSION_NAME` env vars are set (the
detection heuristic).
- Visual inspection of the rendered TUI inside Zellij vs a standard
terminal.
- The insta snapshot `zellij_empty_composer` captures the Zellij-mode
render path.
## Tests
- `terminal_info_reports_is_zellij` — unit test in `terminal-detection`
confirming the convenience method.
- `zellij_empty_composer_snapshot` — insta snapshot in `chat_composer`
validating the Zellij render path for an empty composer.
- `vt100_zellij_mode_inserts_history_and_updates_viewport` — integration
test in `insert_history` verifying that Zellij-mode history insertion
writes content and shifts the viewport.
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Why
The remaining `vt100-tests` and `debug-logs` features in `codex-tui`
were only gating test-only and debug-only behavior. Those feature
toggles add Cargo and Bazel permutations without buying anything, and
they make it easier for more crate features to linger in the workspace.
## What changed
- delete `vt100-tests` and `debug-logs` from `codex-tui`
- always compile the VT100 integration tests in the TUI test target
instead of hiding them behind a Cargo feature
- remove the unused textarea debug logging branch instead of replacing
it with another gate
- add the required argument-comment annotations in the VT100 tests now
that Bazel sees those callsites during linting
- shrink the manifest verifier allowlist again so only the remaining
real feature exceptions stay permitted
## How tested
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
- `just argument-comment-lint -p codex-tui`
This is a follow-up to https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/15922. That
previous PR deleted the old `tui` directory and left the new
`tui_app_server` directory in place. This PR renames `tui_app_server` to
`tui` and fixes up all references.
This is the part 1 of 2 PRs that will delete the `tui` /
`tui_app_server` split. This part simply deletes the existing `tui`
directory and marks the `tui_app_server` feature flag as removed. I left
the `tui_app_server` feature flag in place for now so its presence
doesn't result in an error. It is simply ignored.
Part 2 will rename the `tui_app_server` directory `tui`. I did this as
two parts to reduce visible code churn.
## Why
Once the repo-local lint exists, `codex-rs` needs to follow the
checked-in convention and CI needs to keep it from drifting. This commit
applies the fallback `/*param*/` style consistently across existing
positional literal call sites without changing those APIs.
The longer-term preference is still to avoid APIs that require comments
by choosing clearer parameter types and call shapes. This PR is
intentionally the mechanical follow-through for the places where the
existing signatures stay in place.
After rebasing onto newer `main`, the rollout also had to cover newly
introduced `tui_app_server` call sites. That made it clear the first cut
of the CI job was too expensive for the common path: it was spending
almost as much time installing `cargo-dylint` and re-testing the lint
crate as a representative test job spends running product tests. The CI
update keeps the full workspace enforcement but trims that extra
overhead from ordinary `codex-rs` PRs.
## What changed
- keep a dedicated `argument_comment_lint` job in `rust-ci`
- mechanically annotate remaining opaque positional literals across
`codex-rs` with exact `/*param*/` comments, including the rebased
`tui_app_server` call sites that now fall under the lint
- keep the checked-in style aligned with the lint policy by using
`/*param*/` and leaving string and char literals uncommented
- cache `cargo-dylint`, `dylint-link`, and the relevant Cargo
registry/git metadata in the lint job
- split changed-path detection so the lint crate's own `cargo test` step
runs only when `tools/argument-comment-lint/*` or `rust-ci.yml` changes
- continue to run the repo wrapper over the `codex-rs` workspace, so
product-code enforcement is unchanged
Most of the code changes in this commit are intentionally mechanical
comment rewrites or insertions driven by the lint itself.
## Verification
- `./tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh --workspace`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui-app-server -p codex-tui`
- parsed `.github/workflows/rust-ci.yml` locally with PyYAML
---
* -> #14652
* #14651
## Problem
Before this change, composer paths that cleared the textarea after
submit or slash-command dispatch
also cleared the textarea kill buffer. That meant a user could `Ctrl+K`
part of a draft, trigger a
composer action that cleared the visible draft, and then lose the
ability to `Ctrl+Y` the killed
text back.
This was especially awkward for workflows where the user wants to
temporarily remove text, run a
composer action such as changing reasoning level or dispatching a slash
command, and then restore
the killed text into the now-empty draft.
## Mental model
This change separates visible draft state from editing-history state.
The visible draft includes the current textarea contents and text
elements that should be cleared
when the composer submits or dispatches a command. The kill buffer is
different: it represents the
most recent killed text and should survive those composer-driven clears
so the user can still yank
it back afterward.
After this change, submit and slash-command dispatch still clear the
visible textarea contents, but
they no longer erase the most recent kill.
## Non-goals
This does not implement a multi-entry kill ring or change the semantics
of `Ctrl+K` and `Ctrl+Y`
beyond preserving the existing yank target across these clears.
It also does not change how submit, slash-command parsing, prompt
expansion, or attachment handling
work, except that those flows no longer discard the textarea kill buffer
as a side effect of
clearing the draft.
## Tradeoffs
The main tradeoff is that clearing the visible textarea is no longer
equivalent to fully resetting
all editing state. That is intentional here, because submit and
slash-command dispatch are composer
actions, not requests to forget the user's most recent kill.
The benefit is better editing continuity. The cost is that callers must
understand that full-buffer
replacement resets visible draft state but not the kill buffer.
## Architecture
The behavioral change is in `TextArea`: full-buffer replacement now
rebuilds text and elements
without clearing `kill_buffer`.
`ChatComposer` already clears the textarea after successful submit and
slash-command dispatch by
calling into those textarea replacement paths. With this change, those
existing composer flows
inherit the new behavior automatically: the visible draft is cleared,
but the last killed text
remains available for `Ctrl+Y`.
The tests cover both layers:
- `TextArea` verifies that the kill buffer survives full-buffer
replacement.
- `ChatComposer` verifies that it survives submit.
- `ChatComposer` also verifies that it survives slash-command dispatch.
## Observability
There is no dedicated logging for kill-buffer preservation. The most
direct way to reason about the
behavior is to inspect textarea-wide replacement paths and confirm
whether they treat the kill
buffer as visible-buffer state or as editing-history state.
If this regresses in the future, the likely failure mode is simple and
user-visible: `Ctrl+Y` stops
restoring text after submit or slash-command clears even though ordinary
kill/yank still works
within a single uninterrupted draft.
## Tests
Added focused regression coverage for the new contract:
- `kill_buffer_persists_across_set_text`
- `kill_buffer_persists_after_submit`
- `kill_buffer_persists_after_slash_command_dispatch`
Local verification:
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui`
---------
Co-authored-by: Josh McKinney <joshka@openai.com>
Alt-d should delete the next word. It didn’t. Now it does. Added a small
test so it stays that way.
Details:
File updated:
[codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/textarea.rs](./codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/textarea.rs)
Test added: delete_forward_word_alt_d — verifies Alt-d deletes the next
word and keeps the cursor position correct.
Solves Issue #12453
## What changed
- In `codex-rs/core/src/skills/injection.rs`, we now honor explicit
`UserInput::Skill { name, path }` first, then fall back to text mentions
only when safe.
- In `codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/chat_composer.rs`, mention selection
is now token-bound (selected mention is tied to the specific inserted
`$token`), and we snapshot bindings at submit time so selection is not
lost.
- In `codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget.rs` and
`codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/mod.rs`, submit/queue paths now consume
the submit-time mention snapshot (instead of rereading cleared composer
state).
- In `codex-rs/tui/src/mention_codec.rs` and
`codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/chat_composer_history.rs`, history now
round-trips mention targets so resume restores the same selected
duplicate.
- In `codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/skill_popup.rs` and
`codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/chat_composer.rs`, duplicate labels are
normalized to `[Repo]` / `[App]`, app rows no longer show `Connected -`,
and description space is a bit wider.
<img width="550" height="163" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-05 at 9 56 56 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/346a7eb2-a342-4a49-aec8-68dfec0c7d89"
/>
<img width="550" height="163" alt="Screenshot 2026-02-05 at 9 57 09 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5e04d9af-cccf-4932-98b3-c37183e445ed"
/>
## Before vs now
- Before: selecting a duplicate could still submit the default/repo
match, and resume could lose which duplicate was originally selected.
- Now: the exact selected target (skill path or app id) is preserved
through submit, queue/restore, and resume.
## Manual test
1. Build and run this branch locally:
- `cd /Users/daniels/code/codex/codex-rs`
- `cargo build -p codex-cli --bin codex`
- `./target/debug/codex`
2. Open mention picker with `$` and pick a duplicate entry (not the
first one).
3. Confirm duplicate UI:
- repo duplicate rows show `[Repo]`
- app duplicate rows show `[App]`
- app description does **not** start with `Connected -`
4. Submit the prompt, then press Up to restore draft and submit again.
Expected: it keeps the same selected duplicate target.
5. Use `/resume` to reopen the session and send again.
Expected: restored mention still resolves to the same duplicate target.
## Summary
- Make typed slash commands become text elements when the user hits
space, including paste‑burst spaces.
- Enable `/plan` to accept inline args and submit them in plan mode,
mirroring `/review` behavior and blocking submission while a task is
running.
- Preserve text elements/attachments for slash commands that take args.
<img width="1510" height="500" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/446024df-b69a-4249-85db-1a85110e07f1"
/>
## Changes
- Add safe helper to insert element ranges in the textarea.
- Extend command‑with‑args pipeline to carry text elements and reuse
submission prep.
- Update `/plan` dispatch to switch to plan mode then submit prompt +
elements.
- Document new composer behavior and add tests.
## Notes
- `/plan` is blocked during active tasks (same as `/review`).
- Slash‑command elementization recognizes built‑ins and `/prompts:`
custom commands only.
## Codex author
`codex fork 019c16d3-4520-7bb0-9b9d-48720d40a8ab`
An experimental flow for env var skill dependencies. Skills can now
declare required env vars in SKILL.md; if missing, the CLI prompts the
user to get the value, and Core will store it in memory (eventually to a
local persistent store)
<img width="790" height="169" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cd928918-9403-43cb-a7e7-b8d59bcccd9a"
/>
**Summary**
- Prevent backspace from removing a text element when the cursor is at
the element’s left edge.
- Instead just delete the char before the placeholder (moving it to the
left).
## Summary
- Make `TextElement` placeholders private and add a text-backed accessor
to avoid assuming `Some`.
- Since they are optional in the protocol, we want to make sure any
accessors properly handle the None case (getting the placeholder using
the byte range in the text)
- Preserve placeholders during protocol/app-server conversions using the
accessor fallback.
- Update TUI composer/remap logic and tests to use the new
constructor/accessor.
Continuation of breaking up this PR
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/9116
## Summary
- Thread user text element ranges through TUI/TUI2 input, submission,
queueing, and history so placeholders survive resume/edit flows.
- Preserve local image attachments alongside text elements and rehydrate
placeholders when restoring drafts.
- Keep model-facing content shapes clean by attaching UI metadata only
to user input/events (no API content changes).
## Key Changes
- TUI/TUI2 composer now captures text element ranges, trims them with
text edits, and restores them when submission is suppressed.
- User history cells render styled spans for text elements and keep
local image paths for future rehydration.
- Initial chat widget bootstraps accept empty `initial_text_elements` to
keep initialization uniform.
- Protocol/core helpers updated to tolerate the new InputText field
shape without changing payloads sent to the API.
Add a narrative doc and inline rustdoc explaining how `ChatComposer`
and `PasteBurst` compose into a single state machine on terminals that
lack reliable bracketed paste (notably Windows).
This documents the key states, invariants, and integration points
(`handle_input_basic`, `handle_non_ascii_char`, tick-driven flush) so
future changes are easier to reason about.
Agent wouldn't "see" attached images and would instead try to use the
view_file tool:
<img width="1516" height="504" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/68a705bb-f962-4fc1-9087-e932a6859b12"
/>
In this PR, we wrap image content items in XML tags with the name of
each image (now just a numbered name like `[Image #1]`), so that the
model can understand inline image references (based on name). We also
put the image content items above the user message which the model seems
to prefer (maybe it's more used to definitions being before references).
We also tweak the view_file tool description which seemed to help a bit
Results on a simple eval set of images:
Before
<img width="980" height="310" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ba838651-2565-4684-a12e-81a36641bf86"
/>
After
<img width="918" height="322" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/10a81951-7ee6-415e-a27e-e7a3fd0aee6f"
/>
```json
[
{
"id": "single_describe",
"prompt": "Describe the attached image in one sentence.",
"images": ["image_a.png"]
},
{
"id": "single_color",
"prompt": "What is the dominant color in the image? Answer with a single color word.",
"images": ["image_b.png"]
},
{
"id": "orientation_check",
"prompt": "Is the image portrait or landscape? Answer in one sentence.",
"images": ["image_c.png"]
},
{
"id": "detail_request",
"prompt": "Look closely at the image and call out any small details you notice.",
"images": ["image_d.png"]
},
{
"id": "two_images_compare",
"prompt": "I attached two images. Are they the same or different? Briefly explain.",
"images": ["image_a.png", "image_b.png"]
},
{
"id": "two_images_captions",
"prompt": "Provide a short caption for each image (Image 1, Image 2).",
"images": ["image_c.png", "image_d.png"]
},
{
"id": "multi_image_rank",
"prompt": "Rank the attached images from most colorful to least colorful.",
"images": ["image_a.png", "image_b.png", "image_c.png"]
},
{
"id": "multi_image_choice",
"prompt": "Which image looks more vibrant? Answer with 'Image 1' or 'Image 2'.",
"images": ["image_b.png", "image_d.png"]
}
]
```
## Summary
This PR builds _heavily_ on the work from @occurrent in #8021 - I've
only added a small fix, added additional tests, and propagated the
changes to tui2.
From the original PR:
> On Windows, Codex relies on PasteBurst for paste detection because
bracketed paste is not reliably available via crossterm.
>
> When pasted content starts with non-ASCII characters, input is routed
through handle_non_ascii_char, which bypasses the normal paste burst
logic. This change extends the paste burst window for that path, which
should ensure that Enter is correctly grouped as part of the paste.
## Testing
- [x] tested locally cross-platform
- [x] added regression tests
---------
Co-authored-by: occur <occurring@outlook.com>
- Treat Ctrl-P/N (and their C0 fallbacks) the same as Up/Down so cursor
movement matches popup/history behavior and control bytes never land in
the buffer
Fixes#7529
Signed-off-by: Aofei Sheng <aofei@aofeisheng.com>
This PR fixes keyboard handling for the Right Alt (aka "Alt-Gr") key on
Windows. This key appears on keyboards in Central and Eastern Europe.
Codex has effectively never worked for Windows users in these regions
because the code didn't properly handle this key, which is used for
typing common symbols like `\` and `@`.
A few days ago, I merged a [community-authored
PR](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/6720) that supplied a partial
fix for this issue. Upon closer inspect, that PR was 1) too broad (not
scoped to Windows only) and 2) incomplete (didn't fix all relevant code
paths, so paste was still broken).
This improvement is based on another [community-provided
PR](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/3241) by @marektomas-cz. He
submitted it back in September and later closed it because it didn't
receive any attention.
This fix addresses the following bugs: #5922, #3046, #3092, #3519,
#5684, #5843.
### Summary
- Treat AltGr chords (Ctrl+Alt) as literal character input in the Codex
TUI textarea so Windows terminals that report
backslash and other characters via AltGr insert correctly.
- Add regression test altgr_ctrl_alt_char_inserts_literal to ensure
Ctrl+Alt char events append the character and
advance the cursor.
### Motivation
On US/UK keyboard layouts, backslash is produced by a plain key, so
Ctrl+Alt handling is never exercised and the
bug isn’t visible. On many non‑US layouts (e.g., German), backslash and
other symbols require AltGr, which terminals
report as Ctrl+Alt+<char>. Our textarea previously filtered these chords
like navigation bindings, so AltGr input was
dropped on affected layouts. This change treats AltGr chords as literal
input so backslash and similar symbols work on
Windows terminals.
This fixes multiple reported Issues where the \ symbol got cut off.
Like:
C:\Users\Admin
became
C:UsersAdmin
Co-authored-by: Eric Traut <etraut@openai.com>
## Summary
- replace the word part enum with a simple `is_word_separator` helper
- keep word-boundary logic aligned with the helper and punctuation-aware
behavior
- extend forward/backward deletion tests to cover whitespace around
separators
## Testing
- just fix -p codex-tui
- cargo test -p codex-tui
------
https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_i_68f91c71d838832ca2a3c4f0ec1b55d4
## Summary
- add a kill buffer to the text area and wire Ctrl+Y to yank it
- capture text from Ctrl+W, Ctrl+U, and Ctrl+K operations into the kill
buffer
- add regression coverage ensuring the last kill can be yanked back
Fixes#5017
------
https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_i_68e95bf06c48832cbf3d2ba8fa2035d2
The only file to watch is the cargo.toml
All the others come from just fix + a few manual small fix
The set of rules have been taken from the list of clippy rules
arbitrarily while trying to optimise the learning and style of the code
while limiting the loss of productivity
Created this PR by:
- adding `redundant_clone` to `[workspace.lints.clippy]` in
`cargo-rs/Cargol.toml`
- running `cargo clippy --tests --fix`
- running `just fmt`
Though I had to clean up one instance of the following that resulted:
```rust
let codex = codex;
```
i'm not yet convinced i have the best heuristics for what to highlight,
but this feels like a useful step towards something a bit easier to
read, esp. when the model is producing large commands.
<img width="669" height="589" alt="Screenshot 2025-09-03 at 8 21 56 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b9cbcc43-80e8-4d41-93c8-daa74b84b331"
/>
also a fairly significant refactor of our line wrapping logic.
This pr addresses the fix for
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2713
### Changes:
- Added key handler for `Alt+Ctrl+H` → `delete_backward_word()`
- Added test coverage in `delete_backward_word_alt_keys()` that verifies
both:
- Standard `Alt+Backspace` binding continues to work
- New `Alt+Ctrl+H` binding works correctly for backward word deletion
### Testing:
The test ensures both key combinations produce identical behavior:
- Delete the previous word from "hello world" → "hello "
- Cursor positioned correctly after deletion
### Backward Compatibility:
This change is backward compatible - existing `Alt+Backspace`
functionality remains unchanged while adding support for the
terminal-specific `Alt+Ctrl+H` variant
before:
```
$ time cargo test -p codex-tui -q
[...]
cargo test -p codex-tui -q 39.89s user 10.77s system 98% cpu 51.328 total
```
after:
```
$ time cargo test -p codex-tui -q
[...]
cargo test -p codex-tui -q 1.37s user 0.64s system 29% cpu 6.699 total
```
the major offenders were the textarea fuzz test and the custom_terminal
doctests. (i think the doctests were being recompiled every time which
made them extra slow?)
Codex created this PR from the following prompt:
> upgrade this entire repo to Rust 1.89. Note that this requires
updating codex-rs/rust-toolchain.toml as well as the workflows in
.github/. Make sure that things are "clippy clean" as this change will
likely uncover new Clippy errors. `just fmt` and `cargo clippy --tests`
are sufficient to check for correctness
Note this modifies a lot of lines because it folds nested `if`
statements using `&&`.
---
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* #2467
* __->__ #2465
Ensure Emacs-style Ctrl-b/Ctrl-f work when terminals send bare control
chars.
- Map ^B (U+0002) to move left when no CONTROL modifier is reported.
- Map ^F (U+0006) to move right when no CONTROL modifier is reported.
- Preserve existing Ctrl-b/Ctrl-f and Alt-b/Alt-f behavior.
- Add unit test covering the fallback path.
Background: Ghostty (and some tmux/terminal configs) can emit bare
control characters for Ctrl-b/Ctrl-f. Previously these could be treated
as literal input; with this change both styles behave identically.
This pull request resolves#2391. ctrl + h is not assigned to any other
operations at this moment, and this feature request sounds valid to me.
If we don't prefer having this, please feel free to close this.
Felipe Coury