Option+Backspace word deletion is very slow
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 25, 2026 by arunsathiya Closed Apr 25, 2026
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Option+Backspace still deletes by word for me, but the deletion has become noticeably slow. It used to feel immediate, and other apps on the same machine still erase words quickly, so this feels like a Codex CLI regression rather than a shortcut-mapping issue.
I’m on OpenAI Codex v0.121.0 on macOS 26.5 (arm64). I don’t know exactly which release introduced it, but in recent updates word-by-word erasing with Option+Backspace started feeling delayed and sluggish even though the deletion itself still works.
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Can you provide more details about your setup? Which terminal emulator are you using? Which platform? In the future, please fill out the full bug template when filing a bug report. Thanks!
This actually seems to be a key configuration on my end, and some other apps are showing the same problem. This is not a Codex regression - apologies for any confusion, and noted about the bug report template. Thank you!