Interrupting Session via ESC does not work

[webboty]

Description

When I try to interrupt a session via ESC, it just does nothing. Worked with previous TUI but not in v1.

This is somewhat a show stopper.

OpenCode version

1.0.7

Steps to reproduce

Starting a session and sending a prompt.

Screenshot and/or share link

No response

Operating System

macOSX Sonoma 14.4

Terminal

Ghostty

[github-actions[bot]]

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

• #1179: ESC often doesn't work - Reports ESC not working for interrupting sessions, with similar symptoms
• #1734: Esc not working on agent hangs - Specifically mentions ESC not interrupting when agent is in 'working' state
• #848: ESC isn't interrupting anything - Direct report that ESC doesn't interrupt anything in version 0.2.23
• #1418: working getting stuck and double esc not exiting - Reports getting stuck on working and double ESC not working
• #684: interrupt sometimes has no effect - Reports interrupt API having no effect and needing multiple presses
• #682: TUI becomes unresponsive upon running a non-terminating process - Reports ESC having no effect when TUI is unresponsive

Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case.

[thdxr]

i'm not able to replicate this - it absolutely never works for you?

[mossbergmaverick]

i'm not able to replicate this - it absolutely never works for you?

After the update, the child session doesn't show me options to "always allow," "accept," or "decline," and I cannot exit the session. That is, my main agent delegates a task to a sub-agent, I can see that there's an attempt to edit a file, but I can't do anything - neither exit nor confirm. I also agree with the observation that other bugs have appeared: such as non-working default theme.

[thdxr]

i'm not able to replicate this - it absolutely never works for you?

After the update, the child session doesn't show me options to "always allow," "accept," or "decline," and I cannot exit the session. That is, my main agent delegates a task to a sub-agent, I can see that there's an attempt to edit a file, but I can't do anything - neither exit nor confirm. I also agree with the observation that other bugs have appeared: it's impossible to assign keybindings for navigating through child sessions, as well as a non-working default theme.

is any of this relevant to this issue? those are other issues right

[mossbergmaverick]

is any of this relevant to this issue? those are other issues right

This is the only scenario where ESC doesn't work for me, when an agent delegates a task to a sub-agent. I haven't seen any open tickets on this topic, so I decided not to create additional issues and wrote here instead. If it's more convenient for you that I describe the problem with the non-working ESC in my case, I'll do that. Sorry for any possible confusion.

[webboty]

i'm not able to replicate this - it absolutely never works for you?

Yes, not a single time.

I have already downgraded to 0.15.31 to get it back working.

[milansimek]

I'm experiencing the same problem. I'm running several sub agents usually so this might be related.

It used to work in the previous versions, it stopped working recently.

I tested in several terminal emulators: WezTerm, Kitty, Ghostty.

In previous versions I had to keep pressing ESC or rapidly tap it for a while, but that doesn't work in the current version.

i'm not able to replicate this - it absolutely never works for you?

Are you able to use ESC when a sub agent is running?

Might it be related to keyboard mapping? I'm also experiencing the keybind issues that several users reported.

My system:

• Ubuntu
• Wayland
• KDE

I'll do a test in shell without DE to see if that makes a difference. Will report back here.

[milansimek]

@thdxr Is there a way to test which keys are being registered? I mean a simple script which logs all key combinations received by the new OpenTUI library. If you point me in the right direction I can write a quick test script and share the results with you.

[garrett-hopper]

I'm seeing the same behavior without any subagents. Escape key never stops the agent while actively outputting text or waiting on a command to complete. I am running inside a Nvim terminal on Ghostty which might be some non-standard behavior. C-v still pastes images just fine, but it no longer seems to paste large text chunks as it used to. Might be related 🤷

[thdxr]

pushing a version that allows you to interrupt in the ctrl+p command bar
i want to just see if clicking that option successfully interrupts things?

[rekram1-node]

Noticed this happening with permissions, can't esc at all

[rekram1-node]

fixed the permissions one

[webboty]

I have found the issue on my install and why ESC is never working. @thdxr & @rekram1-node

As soon as I have this in my opencode.json config file:

  "keybinds": {
      "leader": "ctrl+x",
      "app_exit": "ctrl+c,<leader>q",
      "editor_open": "<leader>e",
      "theme_list": "<leader>t",
      "session_export": "<leader>x",
      "session_new": "<leader>n",
      "session_list": "<leader>l",
      "session_share": "<leader>s",
      "session_unshare": "none",
      "session_interrupt": "esc",
      "session_compact": "<leader>c",
      "messages_page_up": "pgup,shift+up",
      "messages_page_down": "pgdown,shift+down",
      "messages_half_page_up": "ctrl+alt+u",
      "messages_half_page_down": "ctrl+alt+d",
      "messages_first": "ctrl+g",
      "messages_last": "ctrl+alt+g",
      "messages_copy": "<leader>y",
      "messages_undo": "<leader>u",
      "messages_redo": "<leader>r",
      "model_list": "<leader>m",
      "model_cycle_recent": "f2",
      "model_cycle_recent_reverse": "shift+f2",
      "agent_list": "<leader>a",
      "agent_cycle": "tab",
      "agent_cycle_reverse": "shift+tab",
      "input_clear": "ctrl+c",
      "input_paste": "ctrl+v",
      "input_submit": "enter",
      "input_newline": "shift+enter,ctrl+j",
      "session_child_cycle": "ctrl+right,<leader>right,ctrl+shift+right",
      "session_child_cycle_reverse": "ctrl+left,<leader>left,ctrl+shift+left"
    },

ESC does not work.

The moment I delete this whole block, ESC works as intended. I am not sure yet which one of the key binds in this config is triggering the issue.

It is part of the config I had in the 0.15.31 config.

Tested in version 1.0.24

Update:

Turns out it is the key bind: "session_interrupt": "esc",

[milansimek]

@thdxr @webboty Removing the session_interrupt keybind works at my side. (using version 1.0.25).

However, I'd like to note that I previously removed the keybinds block completely from my opencode config and the issue persisted.

Right now the esc key works correctly with the session_interrupt keybind removed, and also with all keybinds removed from config. Quite weird since I'm 99% sure that it didn't work with all keybinds removed previously.

I've tested using versions 1.0.20 and 1.0.25. Both work OK now.

[milansimek]

@thdxr FYI: As mentioned above the esc session interrupt works at my side now. However, the ctrl+p session interrupt doesn't work. (using WezTerm native install)

(The menu option is visible, but nothing happens if I press enter or click on it)

[rekram1-node]

i just pushed a change so "esc" will be converted to "escape" to prevent others from running into that