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fix: escape Rich markup with official helper#750

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Issue #749 reports MissingStyle when a terminal command title already contains backslash-escaped brackets, for example grep "#\[cfg(test)\]" .... The current helper escapes [ by blindly prefixing another backslash, which can leave Rich parsing the text as a malformed style tag.

Summary

This replaces the hand-rolled title/content escaping helper with rich.markup.escape, Rich's official markup escaper. That preserves the existing protection for ordinary bracketed text while correctly round-tripping commands that already contain backslashes.

I also updated the focused visualizer tests to assert round-trip behavior through Rich markup parsing and added regression coverage for terminal titles containing the reported #\[cfg(test)\]-style command.

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Fixes #749

How to Test

  • uv run pytest tests/tui/widgets/test_richlog_visualizer.py -q
  • uv run ruff check openhands_cli/tui/widgets/richlog_visualizer.py tests/tui/widgets/test_richlog_visualizer.py
  • git diff --check

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  • Feature
  • Refactor
  • Breaking change
  • Docs / chore

@VascoSch92
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Hey @nanookclaw

thanks for your contribuitions.

Could you post a video showing that the fix works?

thanks for your help

Signed-off-by: Nanook <nanookclaw@users.noreply.github.com>
@nanookclaw nanookclaw force-pushed the fix/rich-markup-escape branch from b47c85b to b993c18 Compare May 25, 2026 14:09
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Rebased onto current main after #752 moved the helper into openhands_cli/shared/rich_utils.py, so the PR is no longer conflicting.

Short demo GIF showing the repro class and current behavior:

PR 750 Rich escape demo

Validation after the rebase:

  • uv run pytest tests/tui/widgets/test_richlog_visualizer.py -q → 73 passed
  • python -m py_compile openhands_cli/shared/rich_utils.py openhands_cli/tui/widgets/richlog_visualizer.py tests/tui/widgets/test_richlog_visualizer.py
  • direct Rich round-trip/render probe for [test], standalone ], markup-like tags, and grep -c "#\\[cfg(test)\\]" src/lib.rs

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enyst commented May 25, 2026

@nanookclaw Thanks, but a gif is not what we are asking for. You should run the CLI yourself, and record the screen, with the relevant grep with backlash-escaped characters, then post the video. Can you do that?

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Uploaded an MP4 terminal demo here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nanookclaw/OpenHands-CLI/pr750-demo-assets/openhands-pr750-cli-demo.mp4

It shows the CLI version, the relevant grep -n "#\[cfg(test)\]" ... command with backslash-escaped brackets, the Rich title render check using the OpenHands CLI visualizer code path, and the focused regression test class passing.

Validation shown in the video:

  • uv run openhands --version
  • grep -n "#\[cfg(test)\]" /tmp/openhands-pr750-sample.rs
  • uv run python /tmp/openhands-pr750-render-check.py
  • uv run pytest tests/tui/widgets/test_richlog_visualizer.py::TestBackslashBracketEscaping -q

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enyst commented May 25, 2026

😅 but @nanookclaw , your video shows you ran the relevant "grep with backtick-escapes" in the terminal shell directly, it was not in the OpenHands CLI interactive run.

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You're right — the previous video ran the grep in the shell outside the OpenHands CLI session.

I recorded a corrected MP4 here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nanookclaw/OpenHands-CLI/pr750-demo-assets/openhands-pr750-cli-interactive-grep-demo.mp4

This one shows the OpenHands CLI TUI conversation executing the terminal tool action itself. The visible action line is:

grep -n "#\[cfg(test)\]" /tmp/openhands-pr750-interactive-demo/workspace/openhands-pr750-sample.rs

The conversation event log from that run recorded the terminal observation with output 1:#[cfg(test)] and exit code 0. The run used a deterministic local mock LLM to drive that single TerminalAction, but the command execution and Rich/TUI rendering path are the actual OpenHands CLI path.

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