Option description wrapping and hidden options in question interface

Open 💬 0 comments Opened Feb 11, 2026 by BobbyWang0120

What version of Codex CLI is running?

0.98.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.3-codex

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.2.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

iTerm2

What issue are you seeing?

In the ask‑and‑answer workflow in the Codex CLI, the interface for displaying options has two major issues. When an option label almost fills the terminal width, the description of that option is printed immediately after it, wrapping one character per line so that a word like "letter" spans six lines. This makes it very hard to read the descriptions.
Additionally, if there are several options and the terminal window is small, the question interface does not resize or scroll. Only the first option is visible; moving the selection with the arrow keys changes which option is active, but the other options and the note input field remain hidden below the bottom of the terminal.
These problems make it difficult to understand the options or add notes during the question‑and‑answer flow.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. Open Codex CLI and run a command that triggers the ask-and-answer workflow where the tool asks a question with multiple options and each option has a longer description.
  2. Reduce your terminal window width so that the option text almost fills a line.
  3. Notice that the description for the option starts immediately after the option text and only one character fits on each line, so the word "letter" would be split across six lines.
  4. When there are several options with long descriptions, the interface does not scroll or stretch, so only the first option is visible; using the up/down arrow keys changes the selection but you cannot see the hidden options.
  5. Press the Tab key to add a note; the note input area is below the bottom of the terminal and cannot be seen or used.

What is the expected behavior?

The description of an option should start on a new line after the option label, not on the same line; this would prevent the description from wrapping one character per line when the terminal is narrow.
The question interface should stretch or allow scrolling so that all options are visible even when the terminal window is small.
The note input section should always be visible and accessible, so users can add notes even when there are multiple options with long descriptions.

Additional information

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