google-gemini / google-gemini/gemini-cli

Scroll back on the terminal stopped working.

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area/core effort/medium kind/bug priority/p2 status/bot-triaged
Dominant language
TypeScript
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Description

### What happened?

[ACTION REQUIRED] 📎 PLEASE ATTACH THE EXPORTED CHAT HISTORY JSON FILE TO THIS ISSUE IF YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE SHARING IT.

### What did you expect to happen?

I needed to scroll back to what the CLI said to do, but scrolling back is failing. I tried ^Q in case it got a ^S

### Client information

* **CLI Version:** 0.55.1
* **Git Commit:** 41327e407
* **Session ID:** 7ab73382-a898-4b36-ab30-3949b98b595c
* **Operating System:** linux v24.12.0
* **Sandbox Environment:** no sandbox
* **Model Version:** auto
* **Auth Type:** gemini-api-key
* **Memory Usage:** 973.7 MB
* **Terminal Name:** Unknown
* **Terminal Background:** #0c0c0c
* **Kitty Keyboard Protocol:** Unsupported

### Login information

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### Anything else we need to know?

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Contributor guide

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Research direction

Reproduce the scrollback failure with CLI version 0.55.1 on Linux, including the reported ^S/^Q possibility, then trace the terminal input and scrollback entry points. No source file or test is named in the issue; done means the terminal can reliably scroll back to earlier CLI output without disrupting input.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
linux, typescript
Domain
cli, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

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