amp-cli.md

Amp CLI, a bit overzealous?

When you run amp CLI in a "non standard" terminal, like the ones that are available in Emacs, like eat the terminal behaves strangely.

But if I run amp in eat it displays like so:

bash-5.2$ amp
Type \ followed by Enter to insert newlines, or use Shift+Enter in supported terminals.
Interrupt the agent with Ctrl+C, exit with Ctrl+D.

>


                                                                                                     ⬇ Updating Amp...
  o
  on
  one
  one
  one t
  one tw
  one two
                                                                                                     ⬇ Updating Amp...
                                                                                                   ✗ Amp update failed.

I've just typed in one two the text presented itself as the above.

But, if I run python3 interactive prompt, it'll behave as expected:

bash-5.2$ python3
Python 3.9.6 (default, Nov 11 2024, 03:15:39)
[Clang 16.0.0 (clang-1600.0.26.6)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = 2; b = 3; a+b
5
>>>

For top & htop (which even has colours), both work fine. Loading retronews.py also works fine, the colours display as you'd expect, no issues.

Now, there is a mode for Claude code that wraps their CLI and uses the same terminal, no such issues.

Could it be that the way your CLI handles \ backslashes, where it "swallows them up" in order to continue on the next line, could be throwing spanner in the works?

dotemacs/amp-cli.md