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[FEATURE]: Color the bash tool's command as shell code in the TUI #54700
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Feature hasn't been suggested before.
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The bash tool's command is drawn as plain text ($ command), while write, edit and apply_patch already color their code through tree-sitter. Bash is the most common tool call (about half of all tool calls in my sessions), and a long multi-line command with pipes, quoting and $(...) is much easier to scan colored. The bash parser is already registered in the TUI.
Proposal: render the command through <code filetype="bash">, plain at first and colored when the parser worker answers, with a tui.json switch to turn it off.
This is AI generated, but under direct supervision and on request of @Nowaker.
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opencode-agent commentedon Oct 12, 2026
Thanks for the suggestion! You're asking for the bash tool's command in the TUI to be highlighted as shell code with tree-sitter, the same way
write,editandapply_patchalready are. It would start plain, get colored once the parser answers, and have atui.jsonoption to turn it off. The maintainers will consider it.Related items:
!shell input) with<code filetype="bash">. It was closed without being merged.This can't be done as a plugin yet, because TUI plugins have no slot for rendering a tool's output in the session view.