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Codex Issues / #6264

Request to have text formatted

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Nov 5, 2025 by adrianveen Closed Mar 20, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What feature would you like to see?

Output has no formatting (all white text). Code blocks needed to be requested.
<img width="929" height="610" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/357b5887-66d5-49fe-a4a4-79168901f012" />

Would love to see code blocks. Doesn't need be full syntax highlighting but some highlighting would be much preferred over the current format.

This is in WSL2 using powershell

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2 Comments

Eriz1818 · 6 months ago

I implemented syntax highlighting in my fork, xCodex (xcodex), and shipped it in v0.3.5.

What it does:

  • Syntax-highlights fenced code blocks in the transcript (themeable).
  • Also supports diff highlighting in the transcript (separate toggle).

Languages supported (v0.3.5):
Bash (bash/sh/zsh), C, C++, CSS, Go, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Python, Ruby, Rust, TypeScript, YAML.

How to try:

  • Install: npm i -g @eriz1818/xcodex
  • Toggle in TUI: /settings transcript syntax-highlight toggle

(or config.toml: [tui] transcript_syntax_highlight = true)

  • or via /settings menu

Docs:

<img width="2056" height="1153" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f8e4cac5-9c00-4281-be08-ed64c893f009" />

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

Syntax highlighting is now implemented