Support multi-line status line
Open 💬 11 comments Opened May 8, 2026 by EveGoodEvening
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.129.0
What subscription do you have?
if configured a couple of items in statusline, statusline is long, but there's no linebreak and will be truncated
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.5
What platform is your computer?
_No response_
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
_No response_
What issue are you seeing?
the chat window is resizeable, but the statusline area is not.
if configured a couple of items in statusline, statusline is long, but there's no linebreak and it will be truncated.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
just configure more items for statusline the you will see it.
<img width="1724" height="970" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d511c6d1-42f9-40a8-aade-9f5ef542d1e8" />
What is the expected behavior?
wrap long statusline footer
Additional information
I also implement a fix in https://github.com/EveGoodEvening/codex/commit/177cabc033a8d152a9c10161c0872348f31d9990, you could review and use
11 Comments
This is working as intended. The status line is limited to a single line. If your terminal is too narrow, it is truncated with
.... You can either make your terminal window wider or configure fewer items in the status line.I'm changing this from a bug report to a feature request, and we can see if others upvote it.
yes please add feature of multi line statusline so we can arrange stuff properly without it being cut off even when in fullscreen
This is a good QOL improvement. Would love to see that in.
Yeah +1, why have so many options if you can't even display them.
+1, i need this for my split window terminal (pi supports it already via extensions)
+1 ...
Codex
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Claude
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Multi-line is just better, especially when using multi-pane CLIs like Kitty
+1
+1
really need the feature, the one that claude has is amazing, hoping codex can have the same thing
+1
is anyone working on this? if not, i can make an implementation.