Chat input placeholder should not be selectable / copyable
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 8, 2026 by vinhnx Closed Apr 8, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.118.0
What subscription do you have?
Free
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.3-codex
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.4.0 arm64 arm
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Ghostty
What issue are you seeing?
Chat input placeholder should not be selectable / copyable
<img width="362" height="65" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/95ec6906-c171-4aa9-b031-cdab02048dd1" />
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019d6b3f-d158-75d2-9391-cbab05dfce87
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
2 Comments
This is expected terminal behavior rather than a Codex bug. The empty-composer hint is rendered as text, and text selection/copying of text is owned by the terminal emulator. Codex does not enable mouse capture here, and terminal apps do not have a way to mark just this placeholder as “not selectable” while still rendering it as ordinary text.
Got it, thank you @etraut-openai !