feat: open prompt in configured external editor by sayan-oai · Pull Request #7606 · openai/codex

sayan-oai · 2025-12-04T20:43:37Z

Add ctrl+g shortcut to enable opening current prompt in configured editor ($VISUAL or $EDITOR).

Prompt is updated with editor's content upon editor close.
Paste placeholders are automatically expanded when opening the external editor, and are not "recompressed" on close
- They could be preserved in the editor, but it would be hard to prevent the user from modifying the placeholder text directly, which would drop the mapping to the pending_paste value
Image placeholders stay as-is
ctrl+g explanation added to shortcuts menu, snapshot tests updated

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etraut-openai · 2025-12-04T21:32:48Z

@sayan-oai, looks like there are a few lint (cargo clippy) errors to fix.

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hasan-ozdemir · 2025-12-06T22:46:52Z

Dear Participants; i have also implemented "ctrl+e:edit prompt in external editor" feature on windows since i was not aware of the improvement on this issue yet.
Now, it can open default notepad on windows.
Then how do i bring up my implementation in my topic branch so that you can check for the potential integration option into your solution if you like?
BTW: i have implemented it as a modular .JS extension along with an extension host on Rust TUI side.

sayan-oai · 2025-12-09T16:25:54Z

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sayan-oai · 2025-12-19T05:10:14Z

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Thanks for your patience and attention to detail, this is looking good! Some minor comments below but otherwise good to merge.

One minor thing for a followup: for non-terminal editors (e.g. code --wait), it would be nice to be able to cancel waiting for the editor to quit, in case it got stuck somehow. I'm not totally sure if this is possible to do given we're pausing the terminal event stream, but maybe we could still watch for ^C or something?

windows doesnt allow saving files directly while another process has a handle, so rework editor logic to keep a temppath rather than the handle itself. this keeps windows happy and works with mac/linux

sayan-oai · 2025-12-20T02:39:59Z

@nornagon-openai Thanks, I appreciate your detailed reviews.

for non-terminal editors (e.g. code --wait), it would be nice to be able to cancel waiting for the editor to quit, in case it got stuck somehow. I'm not totally sure if this is possible to do given we're pausing the terminal event stream, but maybe we could still watch for ^C or something?

The two approaches that come to mind initially both have problems:

Spawn another process that listens for Ctrl+C on stdin (or its equivalent in raw mode since we keep that on), and wait until editor closes OR we read Ctrl+C from stdin.
- But, I think this would steal keystrokes from terminal editors (vim, nano) as they also read stdin
Handle SIGINT
- This would require us to leave raw mode, which would reintroduce the need for cursor gymnastics to clear potential input typed while the external editor is open.

Happy to consider other alternatives, and I will get opinions from others internally.

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sayan-oai added 4 commits December 18, 2025 18:56

enable opening prompt in /

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expand pending_pastes when opening editor

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add shortcut to footer and improve errors

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gate import to unix

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simplify errors, rm Option, disambiguate image placeholders

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add external editor footer

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comment + clean up

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mv const to correct area

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prevent shortcut while bottom pane in use

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fix leaky map; compute image placeholders on demand

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fix terminal flushing

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fix footer end calculation

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rework to set app state and avoid forced renders/cursor moves

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keep raw mode enabled

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rm cursor moving + clearing logic bc we stay in raw mode

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clean up tests

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cleanup + reorganize

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refactor terminal release + regain to single operation

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rework opening editor to release filehandle

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windows doesnt allow saving files directly while another process has a handle, so rework editor logic to keep a temppath rather than the handle itself. this keeps windows happy and works with mac/linux

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handle editors on windows

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use winsplit for windows parsing

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