Input Box too Tall in latest update

[searleser97]

Describe the bug

The input box is now taller, occupying more space in the screen than what it used to ... it used to be just as tall to have one single line, which was already tall enough for me...

Now

Before

I don't actually like to use the native input box for regular prompts anyways, I have a custom neovim configuration that allows me to use my neovim buffer to write the prompt and then send it to copilot via automated copy-paste, having this big input box is such an inconvenience for me, couple solutions:

• revert the change
• make this value configurable by the user
• add an option to remove the input box from the UI entirely and add real good support to use a neovim buffer as input, the existing support copilot cli has for external editors is not efficient that is why I came up with my own...

Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.49-0

Steps to reproduce the behavior

just open copilot cli

Expected behavior

the input box used to be thinner, now is too tall and there is no way for us the users to configure this apparently, I understand there may be different use cases, but also due to that, at least please make this setting configurable by the user ...

Additional context

No response

[dnoriegagoodwin]

I think the bigger issue is that it no longer expands to fit the written text e.g. pre v1.0.49 the text box expanded to fit (below) but not it stays static at like 3 lines and one has to scroll to see what all has been written.

[SlothCroissant]

Something is goofy with the terminal rendering in general here. The title splash is no longer bordered, there are seemingly extra newlines, weirdly large input box, etc.

[examon]

This has been fixed and will ship in the next Copilot CLI release after v1.0.49-1. The prompt input will collapse to a single line when empty and grow naturally as you type, up to a cap before scrolling kicks in. If you still see the oversized input after updating, please comment with details and we'll take another look.