### What feature would you like to see? Codex CLI is already a great tool, but it could be even better if the TUI behaved more like a modern terminal. Specifically: - it should possible to cut/copy/paste text in it. Pasting and copying are fine (including mouse support, yay!) but cutting is not supported, neither by mouse or keyboard shortcuts. This would make it much easier to write long prompts. - it should be possible to discard a long prompt without deleting a word at at time with Ctrl+w

Make the TUI behave more like a modern terminal

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Jan 13, 2026 by BellmannRichard 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?

Codex CLI is already a great tool, but it could be even better if the TUI behaved more like a modern terminal. Specifically:

it should possible to cut/copy/paste text in it. Pasting and copying are fine (including mouse support, yay!) but cutting is not supported, neither by mouse or keyboard shortcuts. This would make it much easier to write long prompts.
it should be possible to discard a long prompt without deleting a word at at time with Ctrl+w

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3 Comments

mrksph · 7 months ago

Fully agree with both points.

Im sure Codex devs have taken a look at opencode TUI.
For me the most blatant issue is deleting large prompts. Can't even ctrl + backspace to delete full words.

BellmannRichard · 7 months ago

@mrksph true, but you can delete a full word using Ctrl + w
Also, something else which would be _amazing_:

https://x.com/bcherny/status/2011332893772308867?s=20

tab away to modify instructions when accepting/rejecting a permission prompt.

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

This feature request hasn't received enough upvotes, so closing.