From a2e9cc5530b484e18e8594d0cca1be41baf9275c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ahmed Ibrahim <aibrahim@openai.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:17:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update interruption error message styling (#3470)

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---
 codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget.rs                                | 4 +++-
 ...s__disabled_slash_command_while_task_running_snapshot.snap | 2 +-
 codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell.rs                              | 3 +--
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget.rs b/codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget.rs
index f47467e4..5f0eac05 100644
--- a/codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget.rs
@@ -289,7 +289,9 @@ impl ChatWidget {
     /// separated by newlines rather than auto‑submitting the next one.
     fn on_interrupted_turn(&mut self) {
         // Finalize, log a gentle prompt, and clear running state.
-        self.finalize_turn_with_error_message("Tell the model what to do differently".to_owned());
+        self.finalize_turn_with_error_message(
+            "Conversation interrupted - tell the model what to do differently".to_owned(),
+        );
 
         // If any messages were queued during the task, restore them into the composer.
         if !self.queued_user_messages.is_empty() {
diff --git a/codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget/snapshots/codex_tui__chatwidget__tests__disabled_slash_command_while_task_running_snapshot.snap b/codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget/snapshots/codex_tui__chatwidget__tests__disabled_slash_command_while_task_running_snapshot.snap
index 52b6807b..e8f08a43 100644
--- a/codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget/snapshots/codex_tui__chatwidget__tests__disabled_slash_command_while_task_running_snapshot.snap
+++ b/codex-rs/tui/src/chatwidget/snapshots/codex_tui__chatwidget__tests__disabled_slash_command_while_task_running_snapshot.snap
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 source: tui/src/chatwidget/tests.rs
 expression: blob
 ---
-🖐  '/model' is disabled while a task is in progress.
+■ '/model' is disabled while a task is in progress.
diff --git a/codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell.rs b/codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell.rs
index 42a79d60..e85e0fb1 100644
--- a/codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell.rs
@@ -1063,8 +1063,7 @@ pub(crate) fn new_error_event(message: String) -> PlainHistoryCell {
     // Use a hair space (U+200A) to create a subtle, near-invisible separation
     // before the text. VS16 is intentionally omitted to keep spacing tighter
     // in terminals like Ghostty.
-    let lines: Vec<Line<'static>> =
-        vec![vec![padded_emoji("🖐").red().bold(), " ".into(), message.into()].into()];
+    let lines: Vec<Line<'static>> = vec![vec![format!("■ {message}").red()].into()];
     PlainHistoryCell { lines }
 }