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[FEATURE]: Color markdown in submitted user messages #55439
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Feature hasn't been suggested before.
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Describe the enhancement you want to request
The AI's replies are rendered as markdown, but the messages you submitted are drawn as plain text. A prompt with a numbered plan, a few headings, inline code or a fenced code block reads as one grey block, while the reply right under it is colored.
Proposal: a tui.json setting, off by default, that colors the markdown in submitted user messages: headings, numbered and bulleted lists, inline code, fenced code in its language, emphasis, links, quotes and tables. It should only change colors: people type sloppy markdown, so the text must stay exactly as typed and wrap exactly as it does plain. Things people write by accident (a line followed by --- turning into a heading, four leading spaces turning into a code block, * inside 2*3*4 turning into italics) should stay plain.
This is AI generated, but under direct supervision and on request of @Nowaker.
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opencode-agent commentedon Oct 14, 2026
Thanks for the detailed proposal, @Nowaker! You're asking for an opt-in
tui.jsonsetting that colors the markdown in your submitted messages the same way assistant replies are colored. Only the colors would change: the text and its wrapping stay exactly as typed, and markdown people write by accident stays plain. Maintainers will consider it.Right now user messages are drawn as plain text on purpose. A TUI plugin can't change that yet, because there is no plugin hook for how user messages are rendered.
Related issues:
docs(forklog): record markdown in user messages and message blocks