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Bug : selection on text not being affected on Cursor IDE terminal but can copy and paste

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jan 7, 2026 by NikkiAung Closed Mar 29, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.79.0

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT subscription

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.2-codex (current) Latest frontier agentic coding model.

What platform is your computer?

MacOS

What issue are you seeing?

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0d65dd2c-8525-4cf5-b24a-16d42148843f

As you can see clearly, when I make selection on user req prompt inside Cursor IDE terminal, it's giving me trouble to visualize the selection effect, but it works well on MacOS terminal, VS Code, Windsurf, and so on.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. Download Cursor
  2. Set your coding IDE to dark color
  3. Cmd + J for terminal and make selection for your prompt.

What is the expected behavior?

The text selection should appear so that user can see where their curr selection is.

Additional information

_No response_

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2 Comments

NikkiAung · 7 months ago

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9c4c9171-204e-4bad-8411-304a0d660687

After investigation, I found out that manually changing the terminal color inside user prefer IDE would be better rather than changing the codex TUI color theme (#2b2b2b)

# apply this in ur prefer IDE settings.json
    "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
        "terminal.selectionBackground": "#0000ff",
    },

What do you think? @etraut-openai

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

This bug report hasn't received any upvotes or additional posts in three months. Closing.