Cannot copy output in 0.74 alpha builds
Resolved 💬 8 comments Opened Dec 18, 2025 by voxmenthe Closed Dec 18, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
0.74.0-alpha.5
What subscription do you have?
Pro
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.2
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.2.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
Number of UI bugs, including characters flashing, and also can no longer copy text from CLI UI output.
These issues were not present in 0.73.0
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Very consistent bug - just open and use.
What is the expected behavior?
Should be able to copy text, and shouldn't see random flashing text.
Additional information
_No response_
8 Comments
Can you be more specific? Perhaps include screen shots if it's easier to show than to describe.
The most obvious one is you can't copy text. Hard to screenshot that. Allows you to select, but not copy (while in the cli).
Reverted back from 0.74.0-alpha.5 back to 0.73.0 and it was fixed.
The high-frequency character flashing is more of a minor annoyance.
I'm not able to repro a problem with copying. I select a range with the mouse and use cmd+C to copy to the clipboard.
Which terminal emulator are you using? Are there any specific repro steps?
I'm using alpha.7, but I don't think we've fixed any copy-related bugs since alpha.5.
This issue is still present in alpha.7 - I also selected text using a mouse and using CMD-C does not copy the text (using vscode terminal) - this issue was not present in 0.73.0
btw this issue is for the model's response after it finishes a job
Additional issue in alpha.7:
homeandendkeys no longer work when editing promptsI'm still not able to repro the problem.
If anyone else is seeing this, please let us know.
@voxmenthe if you're seeing multiple issues, please file separate bug reports.
@voxmenthe are you using tui2?
Ah yes that might be it
[features]
web_search_request = true
apply_patch_freeform = true
unified_exec = true
rmcp_client = true
tui2 = true # Experimental viewport-based TUI for better rendering
ghost_commit = true # Automatically create safety commits between agent turns
yes just checked again and that was the issue.
Please don't use that. It's still very much under development and is likely to break many things. And in general, don't use experimental features.
For future bug reports, please include relevant details like this.