"Tab" no longer triggers path completion in Codex CLI — now used for focus switching
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Jul 13, 2025 by bentito Closed Aug 20, 2025
What version of Codex is running?
$ codex --version codex-cli 0.5.0
Which model were you using?
o4-mini or any
What platform is your computer?
MacOS with iTerm2
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Try to tab for filesystem completion as used to work.
What is the expected behavior?
Does filesystem completion to give accurate paths in the prompting
What do you see instead?
Swaps focus to Messages pane and vice versa
Additional information
I'd really like this have been implemented as a user configurable item since swapping focus seems like a pretty useless use of the tab key, whereas filesystem type ahead was super useful.
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