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fix(mobile): iOS terminal can copy, paste, and stop freezing - #25828
The iOS terminal blocked CLI login flows. Users could not select or copy output such as auth URLs. Long-press had no Paste, and ⌘V joined multi-line text into one line. The toolbar's Paste sat off-screen. The app could also freeze on a terminal. On iPad, the attach-output sheet cut off long output.
What changed
Copy: long-press the terminal for Paste and Select Text. Select Text opens the visible output in a native text view. You can select, copy, Copy All, or tap a link, and a wrapped auth URL is one link.
Paste: the menu's Paste, ⌘V, and the iPad shortcut bar now use the toolbar's paste path, so newlines are kept. The menu uses the system Paste command, so iOS shows no "Allow Paste" prompt. An in-progress IME composition (https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/30546's CJK input) is committed before the paste, so it reaches the shell ahead of the pasted text, and every paste then clears the native input field so a Korean syllable is not recomposed against pasted text.
Keys: Paste is a fixed button next to Dismiss keyboard and no longer scrolls off-screen.
Freeze: the terminal never drained Ghostty's app mailbox. Each prompt title or bell queued a message. After 64, the io thread blocked, so feeding output or freeing the terminal hung the main thread. wakeup_cb now runs ghostty_app_tick on main. A theme or font change now makes one surface per layout pass instead of freeing one mid-replay.
Attach output: the iOS sheet is pinned to the FormSheet host's edges, so it scrolls to the last line and keeps its button on screen.
The Attach row's home-indicator spacing is no longer part of this PR; https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/22418 landed it on main. Android is unchanged except the fixed Paste button. Its terminal uses libghostty-vt with no io thread.
https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/11617 stays open: freeing a terminal can still block in one narrow case, when a single output chunk with more than 64 titles or bells is still being parsed at that moment (see follow-ups). https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/26347 (a ~700-character login URL) is covered by Select Text while the URL is on screen; a URL longer than the viewport is not verified.
Fresh dev-client builds on an iOS 27.0 iPhone 17 Pro simulator, against an isolated dev server and the same terminal session. Before is main at 97c6773; after is this branch at df8744e.
Before (main)
After
Long-press does nothing; no Paste in the toolbar
Paste and Select Text; Paste beside Dismiss keyboard
./freeze.sh 200 (200 titles + bells): output stops; after Back, the app stops responding recording · main-thread stack
./freeze.sh 2000 finishes, typing works, Back returns recording
On main, sample of the hung app shows the main thread in T3TerminalView deinit → destroySurface → ghostty_surface_free → pthread_join in 1478 of 1478 samples. On this branch the same terminal, whose history holds those 200 titles, replays and stays usable.
More after captures:
Menu Paste of two lines runs line one and leaves line two at the prompt, with no "Allow Paste" prompt:
Select Text with the wrapped auth URL as one link:
After Select Text closes, the input field is not first responder; long-press still offers the system Paste and it works:
Toolbar Paste button keeps both lines (it still shows iOS's "Allow Paste" prompt, as on main):
vp run check:changed and SwiftLint --strict pass. NativeTerminalSurface.test.tsx covers the native paste event through writable, read-only and exited terminals, and fails with the fix reverted.
The later commit 4402bee (input-field reset before a paste, from review) is JS-only and was not re-captured. Not verified in this round: iPad, physical devices, Android, and a paste during an active CJK composition (the commit-before-paste is code-reviewed only).
Follow-ups (not in this PR)
Last teardown case in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/11617. Preferred fix is in the Ghostty fork: surfaceMessageWriter drops set_title and ring_bell when the mailbox is full instead of blocking.
The toolbar Paste button still shows iOS's "Allow Paste" prompt because it reads through expo-clipboard. A UIPasteControl would avoid it.
Created by Theo with Claude Opus 5.5; taken over by Julius. Merged with main and re-verified by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code.
Long-pressing the iOS terminal opens an edit menu with Paste and Select
Text. Select Text shows the visible output in a native text view where
users can select, copy, or tap a link. Paste, Cmd+V and the iPad shortcut
bar now go through the toolbar's paste path, so multi-line text keeps its
newlines. The toolbar's Paste sits next to Dismiss keyboard instead of
off-screen. The terminal output sheet scrolls to its last line and keeps
its attach button on screen, and Attach visible output clears the home
indicator.
Co-authored-by: danddanddand <47586871+danddanddand@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: whoisaldo <whois.younes@gmail.com>
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The io thread blocked on a full app mailbox, so feeding output or freeing
the surface hung the main thread. Also hide Attach visible output while
the keyboard is up.
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A theme switch freed a surface while it replayed history. Ghostty callbacks
now reach the view through a weak handle.
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The iOS terminal adds long-press text selection and system paste. Native paste events flow through the terminal surface to the paste session when the terminal is running and writable. The toolbar, sheet layout, Android clipboard icon mapping, and terminal instructions also change.
Changes: Mobile terminal interactions
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iOS text selection and system paste apps/mobile/modules/t3-terminal/ios/T3TerminalModule.swift, apps/mobile/modules/t3-terminal/ios/T3TerminalView.swift, apps/mobile/modules/t3-terminal/ios/TerminalTextSelectionViewController.swift, docs/user/terminal.md
The iOS terminal adds a long-press menu with Paste and Select Text actions, plus a selectable view with Copy All and Done actions. The native module declares the onPaste event, and the terminal instructions describe these actions.
Ghostty callbacks and surface lifecycle apps/mobile/modules/t3-terminal/ios/T3TerminalView.swift
Ghostty callbacks use a weak view reference. Surface resets replace the former refresh-and-create path, and app ticks are added before data feeding and surface destruction.
The native surface forwards paste text only when the terminal is running and writable. The route passes it to the paste session and adds a dedicated Paste button. Tests cover the running, writable conditions; the Android clipboard icon mapping and sheet positioning also change.
sequenceDiagram
participant T3TerminalView
participant NativeTerminalSurface
participant ThreadTerminalRouteScreen
participant PasteSession
T3TerminalView->>NativeTerminalSurface: Emit onPaste text
NativeTerminalSurface->>ThreadTerminalRouteScreen: Forward text when running and writable
ThreadTerminalRouteScreen->>PasteSession: Pass text through pasteText
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Possibly related issues
Issue 24694 — The PR adds a dedicated Paste toolbar button and removes Paste from the regular scrolling toolbar actions.
Issue 25618 — The PR adds long-press Paste and routes native paste text through the terminal paste handler.
Issue 15453 — The PR adds a selectable text view with Copy All and link detection. This supports selecting and copying terminal output.
Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge
Merge Risk: Low · previous review df874
Korean keyboard users may lose the last pasted character when they type right after a paste. The effect is narrow and the fix is a single line, so the PR is mergeable with this fix as a follow-up or a quick edit.
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- Around line 513-528: Update editMenuInteraction to keep the system Paste
command from Self.pasteCommand when available, and add a Paste fallback only
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Verified: every bug in this PR was reproduced on main first. Each was then checked on iOS 26.5 simulators at iPhone and iPad sizes against the final native build. All 8 required checks pass. The new paste test fails on main.
Not verified: no physical device, iPhone Duo, or Android device run. Android only gets the moved Paste button, the same change #25388 already tested there.
Replace the PR's it.each over isRunning/readOnly with one test that pastes
across the writable, read-only and exited states of the same surface.
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The toolbar button and the native paste event now share one handlePaste
that takes the text source, and paste gating lives in JS (writable and
running) with native only hiding the menu item. The callback handle's
comment now states the lifetime it actually guards.
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The iOS terminal blocked CLI login flows. Users could not select or copy output such as auth URLs. Long-press had no Paste, and ⌘V joined multi-line text into one line. The toolbar's Paste sat off-screen. The app could also freeze on a terminal. On iPad, the attach-output sheet cut off long output.
What changed
wakeup_cbnow runsghostty_app_tickon main. A theme or font change now makes one surface per layout pass instead of freeing one mid-replay.The Attach row's home-indicator spacing is no longer part of this PR; https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/22418 landed it on
main. Android is unchanged except the fixed Paste button. Its terminal useslibghostty-vtwith no io thread.Fixes #15453
Fixes #25618
Fixes #24694
Fixes #20252
https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/11617 stays open: freeing a terminal can still block in one narrow case, when a single output chunk with more than 64 titles or bells is still being parsed at that moment (see follow-ups). https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/26347 (a ~700-character login URL) is covered by Select Text while the URL is on screen; a URL longer than the viewport is not verified.
Supersedes #15478 by @danddanddand (copy), #25619 by @whoisaldo and @maria-rcks (paste), #25388 by @juliusmarminge (Paste button), and #22417 by @Claudesaul (sheet height).
Proof
Fresh dev-client builds on an iOS 27.0 iPhone 17 Pro simulator, against an isolated dev server and the same terminal session. Before is
mainat 97c6773; after is this branch at df8744e../freeze.sh 200(200 titles + bells): output stops; after Back, the app stops respondingrecording · main-thread stack
./freeze.sh 2000finishes, typing works, Back returnsrecording
On
main,sampleof the hung app shows the main thread inT3TerminalViewdeinit →destroySurface→ghostty_surface_free→pthread_joinin 1478 of 1478 samples. On this branch the same terminal, whose history holds those 200 titles, replays and stays usable.More after captures:
main):vp run check:changedand SwiftLint--strictpass.NativeTerminalSurface.test.tsxcovers the native paste event through writable, read-only and exited terminals, and fails with the fix reverted.The later commit 4402bee (input-field reset before a paste, from review) is JS-only and was not re-captured. Not verified in this round: iPad, physical devices, Android, and a paste during an active CJK composition (the commit-before-paste is code-reviewed only).
Follow-ups (not in this PR)
surfaceMessageWriterdropsset_titleandring_bellwhen the mailbox is full instead of blocking.expo-clipboard. AUIPasteControlwould avoid it.Created by Theo with Claude Opus 5.5; taken over by Julius. Merged with
mainand re-verified by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code.🤖 Generated with Claude Code