Re:OpenCode – The open source AI coding agent
by plastic3169 on Saturday March 21, 2026 @03:26AM
(#47464797)
I’ve been testing opencode and it feels TUI in appearance only. I prefer commandline and TUIs and in my mind TUI idea is to be low level, extremely portable interface and to get out of the way. Opencode does not have low color, standard terminal theme so had to switch to a proper terminal program. Copy paste is hijacked so I need to write code out to file in order to get a snippet. The enter key (as in the return by the keypad) does not work for sending a line. I have not tested but don’t think this would work over SSH even. I have been googling around to find if I am holding it wrong but it feels to break expectations of a terminal app in a way that I wish they would have made it a gui. Makes me sad because I think the goods are there and it’s otherwise good.
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Re:OpenCode – The open source AI coding agent
by msh on Saturday March 21, 2026 @04:17AM
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I don’t think good TUI’s are the same as good command line programs. Great tui apps would to me be things like Norton/midnight commander, borlands turbo pascal, vim, eMacs and things like that
Re:OpenCode – The open source AI coding agent
by plastic3169 on Saturday March 21, 2026 @04:47AM
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Yes cli and tui are not the same, but I expect TUI to work decent in general terminal emulator and not acitvely block copying and pasting. Having to install supported terminal emulator goes against the vibe.
Re:OpenCode – The open source AI coding agent
by frumiousirc on Saturday March 21, 2026 @04:14PM
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> Copy paste is hijacked
FWIW, in Kitty on Linux, SHIFT + mouse-select copies and SHIFT + middle-mouse-button pastes. This use of SHIFT and otherwise using standard Unix style copy/paste is common in a lot of TUIs (eg, weechat).