With `config.toml`:
```
model = "gpt-5.1-codex"
```
(where `gpt-5.1-codex` has `show_in_picker: false` in
[`model_presets.rs`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/core/src/models_manager/model_presets.rs);
this happens if the user hasn't used codex in a while so they didn't see
the popup before their model was changed to `show_in_picker: false`)
The upgrade picker used to not show (because `gpt-5.1-codex` was
filtered out of the model list in code). Now, the filtering is done
downstream in tui and app-server, so the model upgrade popup shows:
<img width="1503" height="227" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-06 at 5 04 37 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/26144cc2-0b3f-4674-ac17-e476781ec548"
/>
### Motivation
- Fix a visual bug where transcript text could bleed through the
on-screen copy "pill" overlay.
- Ensure the copy affordance fully covers the underlying buffer so the
pill background is solid and consistent with styling.
- Document the approach in-code to make the background-clearing
rationale explicit.
### Description
- Clear the pill area before drawing by iterating `Rect::positions()`
and calling `cell.set_symbol(" ")` and `cell.set_style(base_style)` in
`render_copy_pill` in `transcript_copy_ui.rs`.
- Added an explanatory comment for why the pill background is explicitly
cleared.
- Added a unit test `copy_pill_clears_background` and committed the
corresponding snapshot file to validate the rendering behavior.
### Testing
- Ran `just fmt` (formatting completed; non-blocking environment warning
may appear).
- Ran `just fix -p codex-tui2` to apply lints/fixes (completed).
- Ran `cargo test -p codex-tui2` and all tests passed (snapshot updated
and tests succeeded).
------
[Codex
Task](https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_i_695c9b23e9b8832997d5a457c4d83410)
Background
Streaming assistant prose in tui2 was being rendered with viewport-width
wrapping during streaming, then stored in history cells as already split
`Line`s. Those width-derived breaks became indistinguishable from hard
newlines, so the transcript could not "un-split" on resize. This also
degraded copy/paste, since soft wraps looked like hard breaks.
What changed
- Introduce width-agnostic `MarkdownLogicalLine` output in
`tui2/src/markdown_render.rs`, preserving markdown wrap semantics:
initial/subsequent indents, per-line style, and a preformatted flag.
- Update the streaming collector (`tui2/src/markdown_stream.rs`) to emit
logical lines (newline-gated) and remove any captured viewport width.
- Update streaming orchestration (`tui2/src/streaming/*`) to queue and
emit logical lines, producing `AgentMessageCell::new_logical(...)`.
- Make `AgentMessageCell` store logical lines and wrap at render time in
`HistoryCell::transcript_lines_with_joiners(width)`, emitting joiners so
copy/paste can join soft-wrap continuations correctly.
Overlay deferral
When an overlay is active, defer *cells* (not rendered `Vec<Line>`) and
render them at overlay close time. This avoids baking width-derived
wraps based on a stale width.
Tests + docs
- Add resize/reflow regression tests + snapshots for streamed agent
output.
- Expand module/API docs for the new logical-line streaming pipeline and
clarify joiner semantics.
- Align scrollback-related docs/comments with current tui2 behavior
(main draw loop does not flush queued "history lines" to the terminal).
More details
See `codex-rs/tui2/docs/streaming_wrapping_design.md` for the full
problem statement and solution approach, and
`codex-rs/tui2/docs/tui_viewport_and_history.md` for viewport vs printed
output behavior.
Introduce a full codex-tui source snapshot under the new codex-tui2
crate so viewport work can be replayed in isolation.
This change copies the entire codex-rs/tui/src tree into
codex-rs/tui2/src in one atomic step, rather than piecemeal, to keep
future diffs vs the original viewport bookmark easy to reason about.
The goal is for codex-tui2 to render identically to the existing TUI
behind the `features.tui2` flag while we gradually port the
viewport/history commits from the joshka/viewport bookmark onto this
forked tree.
While on this baseline change, we also ran the codex-tui2 snapshot test
suite and accepted all insta snapshots for the new crate, so the
snapshot files now use the codex-tui2 naming scheme and encode the
unmodified legacy TUI behavior. This keeps later viewport commits
focused on intentional behavior changes (and their snapshots) rather
than on mechanical snapshot renames.
charley-oai ·
Josh McKinney ·
sayan-oai ·
Jeremy Rose ·
Ahmed Ibrahim ·