Fixes#2558
Codex uses alternate screen mode (CSI 1049) which, per xterm spec,
doesn't support scrollback. Zellij follows this strictly, so users can't
scroll back through output.
**Changes:**
- Add `tui.alternate_screen` config: `auto` (default), `always`, `never`
- Add `--no-alt-screen` CLI flag
- Auto-detect Zellij and skip alt screen (uses existing `ZELLIJ` env var
detection)
**Usage:**
```bash
# CLI flag
codex --no-alt-screen
# Or in config.toml
[tui]
alternate_screen = "never"
```
With default `auto` mode, Zellij users get working scrollback without
any config changes.
---------
Co-authored-by: Josh McKinney <joshka@openai.com>
**Motivation**
The `originator` header is important for codex-backend’s Responses API
proxy because it identifies the real end client (codex cli, codex vscode
extension, codex exec, future IDEs) and is used to categorize requests
by client for our enterprise compliance API.
Today the `originator` header is set by either:
- the `CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE` env var (our VSCode extension
does this)
- calling `set_default_originator()` which sets a global immutable
singleton (`codex exec` does this)
For `codex app-server`, we want the `initialize` JSON-RPC request to set
that header because it is a natural place to do so. Example:
```json
{
"method": "initialize",
"id": 0,
"params": {
"clientInfo": {
"name": "codex_vscode",
"title": "Codex VS Code Extension",
"version": "0.1.0"
}
}
}
```
and when app-server receives that request, it can call
`set_default_originator()`. This is a much more natural interface than
asking third party developers to set an env var.
One hiccup is that `originator()` reads the global singleton and locks
in the value, preventing a later `set_default_originator()` call from
setting it. This would be fine but is brittle, since any codepath that
calls `originator()` before app-server can process an `initialize`
JSON-RPC call would prevent app-server from setting it. This was
actually the case with OTEL initialization which runs on boot, but I
also saw this behavior in certain tests.
Instead, what we now do is:
- [unchanged] If `CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE` env var is set,
`originator()` would return that value and `set_default_originator()`
with some other value does NOT override it.
- [new] If no env var is set, `originator()` would return the default
value which is `codex_cli_rs` UNTIL `set_default_originator()` is called
once, in which case it is set to the new value and becomes immutable.
Later calls to `set_default_originator()` returns
`SetOriginatorError::AlreadyInitialized`.
**Other notes**
- I updated `codex_core::otel_init::build_provider` to accepts a service
name override, and app-server sends a hardcoded `codex_app_server`
service name to distinguish it from `codex_cli_rs` used by default (e.g.
TUI).
**Next steps**
- Update VSCE to set the proper value for `clientInfo.name` on
`initialize` and drop the `CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE` env var.
- Delete support for `CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE` in codex-rs.
Historically we started with a CodexAuth that knew how to refresh it's
own tokens and then added AuthManager that did a different kind of
refresh (re-reading from disk).
I don't think it makes sense for both `CodexAuth` and `AuthManager` to
be mutable and contain behaviors.
Move all refresh logic into `AuthManager` and keep `CodexAuth` as a data
object.
Force an announcement tooltip in the CLI. This query the gh repo on this
[file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/codex/main/announcement_tip.toml)
which contains announcements in TOML looking like this:
```
# Example announcement tips for Codex TUI.
# Each [[announcements]] entry is evaluated in order; the last matching one is shown.
# Dates are UTC, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. The from_date is inclusive and the to_date is exclusive.
# version_regex matches against the CLI version (env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")); omit to apply to all versions.
# target_app specify which app should display the announcement (cli, vsce, ...).
[[announcements]]
content = "Welcome to Codex! Check out the new onboarding flow."
from_date = "2024-10-01"
to_date = "2024-10-15"
version_regex = "^0\\.0\\.0$"
target_app = "cli"
```
To make this efficient, the announcement is queried on a best effort
basis at the launch of the CLI (no refresh made after this).
This is done in an async way and we display the announcement (with 100%
probability) iff the announcement is available, the cache is correctly
warmed and there is a matching announcement (matching is recomputed for
each new session).
## Summary
- Add a transcript scrollbar in `tui2` using `tui-scrollbar`.
- Reserve 2 columns on the right (1 empty gap + 1 scrollbar track) and
plumb the reduced width through wrapping/selection/copy so rendering and
interactions match.
- Auto-hide the scrollbar when the transcript is pinned to the bottom
(columns remain reserved).
- Add mouse click/drag support for the scrollbar, with pointer-capture
so drags don’t fall through into transcript selection.
- Skip scrollbar hit-testing when auto-hidden to avoid an invisible
interactive region.
## Notes
- Styling is theme-aware: in light themes the thumb is darker than the
track; in dark themes it reads as an “indented” element without going
full-white.
- Pre-Ratatui 0.30 (ratatui-core split) requires a small scratch-buffer
bridge; this should simplify once we move to Ratatui 0.30.
## Testing
- `just fmt`
- `just fix -p codex-tui2 --allow-no-vcs`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui2`
Clicking the transcript copy pill or pressing the copy shortcut now
copies the selected transcript text and clears the highlight.
Show transient footer feedback ("Copied"/"Copy failed") after a copy
attempt, with logic in transcript_copy_action to keep app.rs smaller and
closer to tui for long-term diffs.
Update footer snapshots and add tiny unit tests for feedback expiry.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c36c8163-11c5-476b-b388-e6fbe0ff6034
The transcript viewport draws every frame. Ratatui's Line::render_ref
does grapheme segmentation and span layout, so repeated redraws can burn
CPU during streaming even when the visible transcript hasn't changed.
Introduce TranscriptViewCache to reduce per-frame work:
- WrappedTranscriptCache memoizes flattened+wrapped transcript lines per
width, appends incrementally as new cells arrive, and rebuilds on width
change, truncation (backtrack), or transcript replacement.
- TranscriptRasterCache caches rasterized rows (Vec<Cell>) per line
index and user-row styling; redraws copy cells instead of rerendering
spans.
The caches are width-scoped and store base transcript content only;
selection highlighting and copy affordances are applied after drawing.
User rows include the row-wide base style in the cached raster.
Refactor transcript_render to expose append_wrapped_transcript_cell for
incremental building and add a test that incremental append matches the
full build.
Add docs/tui2/performance-testing.md as a playbook for macOS sample
profiles and hotspot greps.
Expand transcript_view_cache tests to cover rebuild conditions, raster
equivalence vs direct rendering, user-row caching, and eviction.
Test: cargo test -p codex-tui2
Support multi-click transcript selection using transcript/viewport
coordinates
(wrapped visual line index + content column), not terminal buffer
positions.
Gestures:
- double click: select word-ish token under cursor
- triple click: select entire wrapped line
- quad click: select paragraph (contiguous non-empty wrapped lines)
- quint+ click: select the entire history cell (all wrapped lines
belonging to a
single `HistoryCell`, including blank lines inside the cell)
Selection expansion rebuilds the wrapped transcript view from
`HistoryCell::display_lines(width)` so boundaries match on-screen
wrapping during
scroll/resize/streaming reflow. Click grouping is resilient to minor
drag jitter
(some terminals emit tiny Drag events during clicks) and becomes more
tolerant as
the sequence progresses so quad/quint clicks are practical.
Tests cover expansion (word/line/paragraph/cell), sequence resets
(timing, motion,
line changes, real drags), drag jitter, and behavior on spacer lines
between
history cells (paragraph/cell selection prefers the cell above).
with_target(true) is the default for tracing-subscriber, but we
previously disabled it for file output.
Keep it enabled so we can selectively enable specific targets/events at
runtime via RUST_LOG=..., and then grep by target/module in the log file
during troubleshooting.
before and after:
<img width="629" height="194" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/33f7df3f-0c5d-4d3f-b7b7-80b03d4acd21"
/>
Copy now operates on the full logical selection range (anchor..head),
not just the visible viewport, so selections that include offscreen
lines copy the expected text.
Selection extraction is factored into `transcript_selection` to make the
logic easier to test and reason about. It reconstructs the wrapped
visual transcript, renders each wrapped line into a 1-row offscreen
Buffer, and reads the selected cells. This keeps clipboard text aligned
with what is rendered (gutter, indentation, wrapping).
Additional behavior:
- Skip continuation cells for wide glyphs (e.g. CJK) so copied text does
not include spurious spaces like "コ X".
- Avoid copying right-margin padding spaces.
Manual tested performed:
- "tell me a story" a few times
- scroll up, select text, scroll down, copy text
- confirm copied text is what you expect
`load_config_layers_state()` should load config from a
`.codex/config.toml` in any folder between the `cwd` for a thread and
the project root. Though in order to do that,
`load_config_layers_state()` needs to know what the `cwd` is, so this PR
does the work to thread the `cwd` through for existing callsites.
A notable exception is the `/config` endpoint in app server for which a
`cwd` is not guaranteed to be associated with the query, so the `cwd`
param is `Option<AbsolutePathBuf>` to account for this case.
The logic to make use of the `cwd` will be done in a follow-up PR.
This adds support for `allowed_sandbox_modes` in `requirements.toml` and
provides legacy support for constraining sandbox modes in
`managed_config.toml`. This is converted to `Constrained<SandboxPolicy>`
in `ConfigRequirements` and applied to `Config` such that constraints
are enforced throughout the harness.
Note that, because `managed_config.toml` is deprecated, we do not add
support for the new `external-sandbox` variant recently introduced in
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8290. As noted, that variant is not
supported in `config.toml` today, but can be configured programmatically
via app server.
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8235 introduced `ConfigBuilder` and
this PR updates all call non-test call sites to use it instead of
`Config::load_from_base_config_with_overrides()`.
This is important because `load_from_base_config_with_overrides()` uses
an empty `ConfigRequirements`, which is a reasonable default for testing
so the tests are not influenced by the settings on the host. This method
is now guarded by `#[cfg(test)]` so it cannot be used by business logic.
Because `ConfigBuilder::build()` is `async`, many of the test methods
had to be migrated to be `async`, as well. On the bright side, this made
it possible to eliminate a bunch of `block_on_future()` stuff.
# Terminal Detection Metadata for Per-Terminal Scroll Scaling
## Summary
Expand terminal detection into structured metadata (`TerminalInfo`) with
multiplexer awareness, plus a testable environment shim and
characterization tests.
## Context / Motivation
- TUI2 owns its viewport and scrolling model (see
`codex-rs/tui2/docs/tui_viewport_and_history.md`), so scroll behavior
must be consistent across terminals and independent of terminal
scrollback quirks.
- Prior investigations show mouse wheel scroll deltas vary noticeably by
terminal. To tune scroll scaling (line increments per wheel tick) we
need reliable terminal identification, including when running inside
tmux/zellij.
- tmux is especially tricky because it can mask the underlying terminal;
we now consult `tmux display-message` client termtype/name to attribute
sessions to the actual terminal rather than tmux itself.
- This remains backwards compatible with the existing OpenTelemetry
user-agent token because `user_agent()` is still derived from the same
environment signals (now via `TerminalInfo`).
## Changes
- Introduce `TerminalInfo`, `TerminalName`, and `Multiplexer` with
`TERM_PROGRAM`/`TERM`/multiplexer detection and user-agent formatting in
`codex-rs/core/src/terminal.rs`.
- Add an injectable `Environment` trait + `FakeEnvironment` for testing,
and comprehensive characterization tests covering known terminals, tmux
client termtype/name, and zellij.
- Document module usage and detection order; update `terminal_info()` to
be the primary interface for callers.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p codex-core terminal::tests`
- manually checked ghostty, iTerm2, Terminal.app, vscode, tmux, zellij,
Warp, alacritty, kitty.
```
2025-12-18T07:07:49.191421Z INFO Detected terminal info terminal=TerminalInfo { name: Iterm2, term_program: Some("iTerm.app"), version: Some("3.6.6"), term: None, multiplexer: None }
2025-12-18T07:07:57.991776Z INFO Detected terminal info terminal=TerminalInfo { name: AppleTerminal, term_program: Some("Apple_Terminal"), version: Some("455.1"), term: None, multiplexer: None }
2025-12-18T07:08:07.732095Z INFO Detected terminal info terminal=TerminalInfo { name: WarpTerminal, term_program: Some("WarpTerminal"), version: Some("v0.2025.12.10.08.12.stable_03"), term: None, multiplexer: None }
2025-12-18T07:08:24.860316Z INFO Detected terminal info terminal=TerminalInfo { name: Kitty, term_program: None, version: None, term: None, multiplexer: None }
2025-12-18T07:08:38.302761Z INFO Detected terminal info terminal=TerminalInfo { name: Alacritty, term_program: None, version: None, term: None, multiplexer: None }
2025-12-18T07:08:50.887748Z INFO Detected terminal info terminal=TerminalInfo { name: VsCode, term_program: Some("vscode"), version: Some("1.107.1"), term: None, multiplexer: None }
2025-12-18T07:10:01.309802Z INFO Detected terminal info terminal=TerminalInfo { name: WezTerm, term_program: Some("WezTerm"), version: Some("20240203-110809-5046fc22"), term: None, multiplexer: None }
2025-12-18T08:05:17.009271Z INFO Detected terminal info terminal=TerminalInfo { name: Ghostty, term_program: Some("ghostty"), version: Some("1.2.3"), term: None, multiplexer: None }
2025-12-18T08:05:23.819973Z INFO Detected terminal info terminal=TerminalInfo { name: Ghostty, term_program: Some("ghostty"), version: Some("1.2.3"), term: Some("xterm-ghostty"), multiplexer: Some(Tmux { version: Some("3.6a") }) }
2025-12-18T08:05:35.572853Z INFO Detected terminal info terminal=TerminalInfo { name: Ghostty, term_program: Some("ghostty"), version: Some("1.2.3"), term: None, multiplexer: Some(Zellij) }
```
## Notes / Follow-ups
- Next step is to wire `TerminalInfo` into TUI2’s scroll scaling
configuration and add a per-terminal tuning table.
- The log output in TUI2 helps validate real-world detection before
applying behavior changes.
This PR does various types of cleanup before I can proceed with more
ambitious changes to config loading.
First, I noticed duplicated code across these two methods:
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/774bd9e432fa2e0f4e059e97648cf92216912e19/codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs#L314-L324https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/774bd9e432fa2e0f4e059e97648cf92216912e19/codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs#L334-L344
This has now been consolidated in
`load_config_as_toml_with_cli_overrides()`.
Further, I noticed that `Config::load_with_cli_overrides()` took two
similar arguments:
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/774bd9e432fa2e0f4e059e97648cf92216912e19/codex-rs/core/src/config/mod.rs#L308-L311
The difference between `cli_overrides` and `overrides` was not
immediately obvious to me. At first glance, it appears that one should
be able to be expressed in terms of the other, but it turns out that
some fields of `ConfigOverrides` (such as `cwd` and
`codex_linux_sandbox_exe`) are, by design, not configurable via a
`.toml` file or a command-line `--config` flag.
That said, I discovered that many callers of
`Config::load_with_cli_overrides()` were passing
`ConfigOverrides::default()` for `overrides`, so I created two separate
methods:
- `Config::load_with_cli_overrides(cli_overrides: Vec<(String,
TomlValue)>)`
- `Config::load_with_cli_overrides_and_harness_overrides(cli_overrides:
Vec<(String, TomlValue)>, harness_overrides: ConfigOverrides)`
The latter has a long name, as it is _not_ what should be used in the
common case, so the extra typing is designed to draw attention to this
fact. I tried to update the existing callsites to use the shorter name,
where possible.
Further, in the cases where `ConfigOverrides` is used, usually only a
limited subset of fields are actually set, so I updated the declarations
to leverage `..Default::default()` where possible.
> large behavior change to how the TUI owns its viewport, history, and
suspend behavior.
> Core model is in place; a few items are still being polished before
this is ready to merge.
We've moved this over to a new tui2 crate from being directly on the tui
crate.
To enable use --enable tui2 (or the equivalent in your config.toml). See
https://developers.openai.com/codex/local-config#feature-flags
Note that this serves as a baseline for the changes that we're making to
be applied rapidly. Tui2 may not track later changes in the main tui.
It's experimental and may not be where we land on things.
---
## Summary
This PR moves the Codex TUI off of “cooperating” with the terminal’s
scrollback and onto a model
where the in‑memory transcript is the single source of truth. The TUI
now owns scrolling, selection,
copy, and suspend/exit printing based on that transcript, and only
writes to terminal scrollback in
append‑only fashion on suspend/exit. It also fixes streaming wrapping so
streamed responses reflow
with the viewport, and introduces configuration to control whether we
print history on suspend or
only on exit.
High‑level goals:
- Ensure history is complete, ordered, and never silently dropped.
- Print each logical history cell at most once into scrollback, even
with resizes and suspends.
- Make scrolling, selection, and copy match the visible transcript, not
the terminal’s notion of
scrollback.
- Keep suspend/alt‑screen behavior predictable across terminals.
---
## Core Design Changes
### Transcript & viewport ownership
- Treat the transcript as a list of **cells** (user prompts, agent
messages, system/info rows,
streaming segments).
- On each frame:
- Compute a **transcript region** as “full terminal frame minus the
bottom input area”.
- Flatten all cells into visual lines plus metadata (which cell + which
line within that cell).
- Use scroll state to choose which visual line is at the top of the
region.
- Clear that region and draw just the visible slice of lines.
- The terminal’s scrollback is no longer part of the live layout
algorithm; it is only ever written
to when we decide to print history.
### User message styling
- User prompts now render as clear blocks with:
- A blank padding line above and below.
- A full‑width background for every line in the block (including the
prompt line itself).
- The same block styling is used when we print history into scrollback,
so the transcript looks
consistent whether you are in the TUI or scrolling back after
exit/suspend.
---
## Scrolling, Mouse, Selection, and Copy
### Scrolling
- Scrolling is defined in terms of the flattened transcript lines:
- Mouse wheel scrolls up/down by fixed line increments.
- PgUp/PgDn/Home/End operate on the same scroll model.
- The footer shows:
- Whether you are “following live output” vs “scrolled up”.
- Current scroll position (line / total).
- When there is no history yet, the bottom pane is **pegged high** and
gradually moves down as the
transcript fills, matching the existing UX.
### Selection
- Click‑and‑drag defines a **linear selection** over transcript
line/column coordinates, not raw
screen rows.
- Selection is **content‑anchored**:
- When you scroll, the selection moves with the underlying lines instead
of sticking to a fixed
Y position.
- This holds both when scrolling manually and when new content streams
in, as long as you are in
“follow” mode.
- The selection only covers the “transcript text” area:
- Left gutter/prefix (bullets, markers) is intentionally excluded.
- This keeps copy/paste cleaner and avoids including structural margin
characters.
### Copy (`Ctrl+Y`)
- Introduce a small clipboard abstraction (`ClipboardManager`‑style) and
use a cross‑platform
clipboard crate under the hood.
- When `Ctrl+Y` is pressed and a non‑empty selection exists:
- Re‑render the transcript region off‑screen using the same wrapping as
the visible viewport.
- Walk the selected line/column range over that buffer to reconstruct
the exact text:
- Includes spaces between words.
- Preserves empty lines within the selection.
- Send the resulting text to the system clipboard.
- Show a short status message in the footer indicating success/failure.
- Copy is **best‑effort**:
- Clipboard failures (headless environment, sandbox, remote sessions)
are handled gracefully via
status messages; they do not crash the TUI.
- Copy does *not* insert a new history entry; it only affects the status
bar.
---
## Streaming and Wrapping
### Previous behavior
Previously, streamed markdown:
- Was wrapped at a fixed width **at commit time** inside the streaming
collector.
- Those wrapped `Line<'static>` values were then wrapped again at
display time.
- As a result, streamed paragraphs could not “un‑wrap” when the terminal
width increased; they were
permanently split according to the width at the start of the stream.
### New behavior
This PR implements the first step from
`codex-rs/tui/streaming_wrapping_design.md`:
- Streaming collector is constructed **without** a fixed width for
wrapping.
- It still:
- Buffers the full markdown source for the current stream.
- Commits only at newline boundaries.
- Emits logical lines as new content becomes available.
- Agent message cells now wrap streamed content only at **display
time**, based on the current
viewport width, just like non‑streaming messages.
- Consequences:
- Streamed responses reflow correctly when the terminal is resized.
- Animation steps are per logical line instead of per “pre‑wrapped”
visual line; this makes some
commits slightly larger but keeps the behavior simple and predictable.
Streaming responses are still represented as a sequence of logical
history entries (first line +
continuations) and integrate with the same scrolling, selection, and
printing model.
---
## Printing History on Suspend and Exit
### High‑water mark and append‑only scrollback
- Introduce a **cell‑based high‑water mark** (`printed_history_cells`)
on the transcript:
- Represents “how many cells at the front of the transcript have already
been printed”.
- Completely independent of wrapped line counts or terminal geometry.
- Whenever we print history (suspend or exit):
- Take the suffix of `transcript_cells` beyond `printed_history_cells`.
- Render just that suffix into styled lines at the **current** width.
- Write those lines to stdout.
- Advance `printed_history_cells` to cover all cells we just printed.
- Older cells are never re‑rendered for scrollback. They stay in
whatever wrapping they had when
printed, which is acceptable as long as the logical content is present
once.
### Suspend (`Ctrl+Z`)
- On suspend:
- Leave alt screen if active and restore normal terminal modes.
- Render the not‑yet‑printed suffix of the transcript and append it to
normal scrollback.
- Advance the high‑water mark.
- Suspend the process.
- On resume (`fg`):
- Re‑enter the TUI mode (alt screen + input modes).
- Clear the viewport region and fully redraw from in‑memory transcript
and state.
This gives predictable behavior across terminals without trying to
maintain scrollback live.
### Exit
- On exit:
- Render any remaining unprinted cells once and write them to stdout.
- Add an extra blank line after the final Codex history cell before
printing token usage, so the
transcript and usage info are visually separated.
- If you never suspended, exit prints the entire transcript exactly
once.
- If you suspended one or more times, exit prints only the cells
appended after the last suspend.
---
## Configuration: Suspend Printing
This PR also adds configuration to control **when** we print history:
- New TUI config option to gate printing on suspend:
- At minimum:
- `print_on_suspend = true` – current behavior: print new history at
each suspend *and* on exit.
- `print_on_suspend = false` – only print on exit.
- Default is tuned to preserve current behavior, but this can be
revisited based on feedback.
- The config is respected in the suspend path:
- If disabled, suspend only restores terminal modes and stops rendering
but does not print new
history.
- Exit still prints the full not‑yet‑printed suffix once.
This keeps the core viewport logic agnostic to preference, while letting
users who care about
quiet scrollback opt out of suspend printing.
---
## Tradeoffs
What we gain:
- A single authoritative history model (the in‑memory transcript).
- Deterministic viewport rendering independent of terminal quirks.
- Suspend/exit flows that:
- Print each logical history cell exactly once.
- Work across resizes and different terminals.
- Interact cleanly with alt screen and raw‑mode toggling.
- Consistent, content‑anchored scrolling, selection, and copy.
- Streaming messages that reflow correctly with the viewport width.
What we accept:
- Scrollback may contain older cells wrapped differently than newer
ones.
- Streaming responses appear in scrollback as a sequence of blocks
corresponding to their streaming
structure, not as a single retroactively reflowed paragraph.
- We do not attempt to rewrite or reflow already‑printed scrollback.
For deeper rationale and diagrams, see
`docs/tui_viewport_and_history.md` and
`codex-rs/tui/streaming_wrapping_design.md`.
---
## Still to Do Before This PR Is Ready
These are scoped to this PR (not long‑term future work):
- [ ] **Streaming wrapping polish**
- Double‑check all streaming paths use display‑time wrapping only.
- Ensure tests cover resizing after streaming has started.
- [ ] **Suspend printing config**
- Finalize config shape and default (keep existing behavior vs opt‑out).
- Wire config through TUI startup and document it in the appropriate
config docs.
- [x] **Bottom pane positioning**
- Ensure the bottom pane is pegged high when there’s no history and
smoothly moves down as the
transcript fills, matching the current behavior across startup and
resume.
- [x] **Transcript mouse scrolling**
- Re‑enable wheel‑based transcript scrolling on top of the new scroll
model.
- Make sure mouse scroll does not get confused with “alternate scroll”
modes from terminals.
- [x] **Mouse selection vs streaming**
- When selection is active, stop auto‑scrolling on streaming so the
selection remains stable on
the selected content.
- Ensure that when streaming continues after selection is cleared,
“follow latest output” mode
resumes correctly.
- [ ] **Auto‑scroll during drag**
- While the user is dragging a selection, auto‑scroll when the cursor is
at/near the top or bottom
of the transcript viewport to allow selecting beyond the current visible
window.
- [ ] **Feature flag / rollout**
- Investigate gating the new viewport/history behavior behind a feature
flag for initial rollout,
so we can fall back to the old behavior if needed during early testing.
- [ ] **Before/after videos**
- Capture short clips showing:
- Scrolling (mouse + keys).
- Selection and copy.
- Streaming behavior under resize.
- Suspend/resume and exit printing.
- Use these to validate UX and share context in the PR discussion.
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.
Introduce a new codex-tui2 crate that re-exports the existing
interactive TUI surface and delegates run_main directly to codex-tui.
This keeps behavior identical while giving tui2 its own crate for future
viewport work.
Wire the codex CLI to select the frontend via the tui2 feature flag.
When the merged CLI overrides include features.tui2=true (e.g. via
--enable tui2), interactive runs are routed through
codex_tui2::run_main; otherwise they continue to use the original
codex_tui::run_main.
Register Feature::Tui2 in the core feature registry and add the tui2
crate and dependency entries so the new frontend builds alongside the
existing TUI.
This is a stub that only wires up the feature flag for this.
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Owen Lin ·
Helmut Januschka ·
jif-oai ·
pakrym-oai ·
Josh McKinney ·
Michael Bolin ·
Gav Verma ·
Anton Panasenko ·