fix: expand paste placeholders in TextInput on submit

packages/cli/src/ui/auth/ApiAuthDialog.test.tsx

@@ -29,9 +29,16 @@ vi.mock('../hooks/useKeypress.js', () => ({
   useKeypress: vi.fn(),
 }));
 
-vi.mock('../components/shared/text-buffer.js', () => ({
-  useTextBuffer: vi.fn(),
-}));
+vi.mock('../components/shared/text-buffer.js', async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual =
+    await importOriginal<
+      typeof import('../components/shared/text-buffer.js')
+    >();
+  return {
+    ...actual,
+    useTextBuffer: vi.fn(),
+  };
+});
 
 vi.mock('../contexts/UIStateContext.js', () => ({
   useUIState: vi.fn(() => ({

packages/cli/src/ui/components/AskUserDialog.test.tsx

@@ -1347,4 +1347,47 @@ describe('AskUserDialog', () => {
       });
     });
   });
+
+  it('expands paste placeholders in multi-select custom option via Done', async () => {
+    const questions: Question[] = [
+      {
+        question: 'Which features?',
+        header: 'Features',
+        type: QuestionType.CHOICE,
+        options: [{ label: 'TypeScript', description: '' }],
+        multiSelect: true,
+      },
+    ];
+
+    const onSubmit = vi.fn();
+    const { stdin } = renderWithProviders(
+      <AskUserDialog
+        questions={questions}
+        onSubmit={onSubmit}
+        onCancel={vi.fn()}
+        width={120}
+      />,
+      { width: 120 },
+    );
+
+    // Select TypeScript
+    writeKey(stdin, '\r');
+    // Down to Other
+    writeKey(stdin, '\x1b[B');
+
+    // Simulate bracketed paste of multi-line text into the custom option
+    const pastedText = 'Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3\nLine 4\nLine 5\nLine 6';
+    const ESC = '\x1b';
+    writeKey(stdin, `${ESC}[200~${pastedText}${ESC}[201~`);
+
+    // Down to Done and submit
+    writeKey(stdin, '\x1b[B');
+    writeKey(stdin, '\r');
+
+    await waitFor(() => {
+      expect(onSubmit).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+        '0': `TypeScript, ${pastedText}`,
+      });
+    });
+  });
 });

packages/cli/src/ui/components/AskUserDialog.tsx

@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ import { keyMatchers, Command } from '../keyMatchers.js';
 import { checkExhaustive } from '@google/gemini-cli-core';
 import { TextInput } from './shared/TextInput.js';
 import { formatCommand } from '../utils/keybindingUtils.js';
-import { useTextBuffer } from './shared/text-buffer.js';
+import {
+  useTextBuffer,
+  expandPastePlaceholders,
+} from './shared/text-buffer.js';
 import { getCachedStringWidth } from '../utils/textUtils.js';
 import { useTabbedNavigation } from '../hooks/useTabbedNavigation.js';
 import { DialogFooter } from './shared/DialogFooter.js';
@@ -303,10 +306,12 @@ const TextQuestionView: React.FC<TextQuestionViewProps> = ({
   const lastTextValueRef = useRef(textValue);
   useEffect(() => {
     if (textValue !== lastTextValueRef.current) {
-      onSelectionChange?.(textValue);
+      onSelectionChange?.(
+        expandPastePlaceholders(textValue, buffer.pastedContent),
+      );
       lastTextValueRef.current = textValue;
     }
-  }, [textValue, onSelectionChange]);
+  }, [textValue, onSelectionChange, buffer.pastedContent]);
 
   // Handle Ctrl+C to clear all text
   const handleExtraKeys = useCallback(
@@ -589,11 +594,15 @@ const ChoiceQuestionView: React.FC<ChoiceQuestionViewProps> = ({
         }
       });
       if (includeCustomOption && customOption.trim()) {
-        answers.push(customOption.trim());
+        const expanded = expandPastePlaceholders(
+          customOption,
+          customBuffer.pastedContent,
+        );
+        answers.push(expanded.trim());
       }
       return answers.join(', ');
     },
-    [questionOptions],
+    [questionOptions, customBuffer.pastedContent],
   );
 
   // Synchronize selection changes with parent - only when it actually changes
@@ -758,7 +767,12 @@ const ChoiceQuestionView: React.FC<ChoiceQuestionViewProps> = ({
         } else if (itemValue.type === 'other') {
           // In single select, selecting other submits it if it has text
           if (customOptionText.trim()) {
-            onAnswer(customOptionText.trim());
+            onAnswer(
+              expandPastePlaceholders(
+                customOptionText,
+                customBuffer.pastedContent,
+              ).trim(),
+            );
           }
         }
       }
@@ -768,6 +782,7 @@ const ChoiceQuestionView: React.FC<ChoiceQuestionViewProps> = ({
       selectedIndices,
       isCustomOptionSelected,
       customOptionText,
+      customBuffer.pastedContent,
       onAnswer,
       buildAnswerString,
     ],

packages/cli/src/ui/components/InputPrompt.tsx

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { HalfLinePaddedBox } from './shared/HalfLinePaddedBox.js';
 import {
   type TextBuffer,
   logicalPosToOffset,
-  PASTED_TEXT_PLACEHOLDER_REGEX,
+  expandPastePlaceholders,
   getTransformUnderCursor,
   LARGE_PASTE_LINE_THRESHOLD,
   LARGE_PASTE_CHAR_THRESHOLD,
@@ -346,10 +346,9 @@ export const InputPrompt: React.FC<InputPromptProps> = ({
     (submittedValue: string) => {
       let processedValue = submittedValue;
       if (buffer.pastedContent) {
-        // Replace placeholders like [Pasted Text: 6 lines] with actual content
-        processedValue = processedValue.replace(
-          PASTED_TEXT_PLACEHOLDER_REGEX,
-          (match) => buffer.pastedContent[match] || match,
+        processedValue = expandPastePlaceholders(
+          processedValue,
+          buffer.pastedContent,
         );
       }
 

packages/cli/src/ui/components/shared/TextInput.test.tsx

@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ vi.mock('../../hooks/useKeypress.js', () => ({
   useKeypress: vi.fn(),
 }));
 
-vi.mock('./text-buffer.js', () => {
+vi.mock('./text-buffer.js', async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import('./text-buffer.js')>();
   const mockTextBuffer = {
     text: '',
     lines: [''],
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ vi.mock('./text-buffer.js', () => {
   };
 
   return {
+    ...actual,
     useTextBuffer: vi.fn(() => mockTextBuffer as unknown as TextBuffer),
     TextBuffer: vi.fn(() => mockTextBuffer as unknown as TextBuffer),
   };
@@ -82,6 +84,7 @@ describe('TextInput', () => {
       cursor: [0, 0],
       visualCursor: [0, 0],
       viewportVisualLines: [''],
+      pastedContent: {} as Record<string, string>,
       handleInput: vi.fn((key) => {
         if (key.sequence) {
           buffer.text += key.sequence;
@@ -298,6 +301,58 @@ describe('TextInput', () => {
     unmount();
   });
 
+  it('expands paste placeholder to real content on submit', async () => {
+    const placeholder = '[Pasted Text: 6 lines]';
+    const realContent = 'line1\nline2\nline3\nline4\nline5\nline6';
+    mockBuffer.setText(placeholder);
+    mockBuffer.pastedContent = { [placeholder]: realContent };
+    const { waitUntilReady, unmount } = render(
+      <TextInput buffer={mockBuffer} onSubmit={onSubmit} onCancel={onCancel} />,
+    );
+    await waitUntilReady();
+    const keypressHandler = mockedUseKeypress.mock.calls[0][0];
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      keypressHandler({
+        name: 'return',
+        shift: false,
+        alt: false,
+        ctrl: false,
+        cmd: false,
+        sequence: '',
+      });
+    });
+    await waitUntilReady();
+
+    expect(onSubmit).toHaveBeenCalledWith(realContent);
+    unmount();
+  });
+
+  it('submits text unchanged when pastedContent is empty', async () => {
+    mockBuffer.setText('normal text');
+    mockBuffer.pastedContent = {};
+    const { waitUntilReady, unmount } = render(
+      <TextInput buffer={mockBuffer} onSubmit={onSubmit} onCancel={onCancel} />,
+    );
+    await waitUntilReady();
+    const keypressHandler = mockedUseKeypress.mock.calls[0][0];
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      keypressHandler({
+        name: 'return',
+        shift: false,
+        alt: false,
+        ctrl: false,
+        cmd: false,
+        sequence: '',
+      });
+    });
+    await waitUntilReady();
+
+    expect(onSubmit).toHaveBeenCalledWith('normal text');
+    unmount();
+  });
+
   it('calls onCancel on escape', async () => {
     vi.useFakeTimers();
     const { waitUntilReady, unmount } = render(

packages/cli/src/ui/components/shared/TextInput.tsx

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { useKeypress } from '../../hooks/useKeypress.js';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
 import { theme } from '../../semantic-colors.js';
 import type { TextBuffer } from './text-buffer.js';
+import { expandPastePlaceholders } from './text-buffer.js';
 import { cpSlice, cpIndexToOffset } from '../../utils/textUtils.js';
 import { keyMatchers, Command } from '../../keyMatchers.js';
 
@@ -47,14 +48,14 @@ export function TextInput({
       }
 
       if (keyMatchers[Command.SUBMIT](key) && onSubmit) {
-        onSubmit(text);
+        onSubmit(expandPastePlaceholders(text, buffer.pastedContent));
         return true;
       }
 
       const handled = handleInput(key);
       return handled;
     },
-    [handleInput, onCancel, onSubmit, text],
+    [handleInput, onCancel, onSubmit, text, buffer.pastedContent],
   );
 
   useKeypress(handleKeyPress, { isActive: focus, priority: true });

packages/cli/src/ui/components/shared/text-buffer.ts

@@ -38,6 +38,17 @@ export const LARGE_PASTE_CHAR_THRESHOLD = 500;
 export const PASTED_TEXT_PLACEHOLDER_REGEX =
   /\[Pasted Text: \d+ (?:lines|chars)(?: #\d+)?\]/g;
 
+// Replace paste placeholder strings with their actual pasted content.
+export function expandPastePlaceholders(
+  text: string,
+  pastedContent: Record<string, string>,
+): string {
+  return text.replace(
+    PASTED_TEXT_PLACEHOLDER_REGEX,
+    (match) => pastedContent[match] || match,
+  );
+}
+
 export type Direction =
   | 'left'
   | 'right'
@@ -3086,10 +3097,7 @@ export function useTextBuffer({
     const tmpDir = fs.mkdtempSync(pathMod.join(os.tmpdir(), 'gemini-edit-'));
     const filePath = pathMod.join(tmpDir, 'buffer.txt');
     // Expand paste placeholders so user sees full content in editor
-    const expandedText = text.replace(
-      PASTED_TEXT_PLACEHOLDER_REGEX,
-      (match) => pastedContent[match] || match,
-    );
+    const expandedText = expandPastePlaceholders(text, pastedContent);
     fs.writeFileSync(filePath, expandedText, 'utf8');
 
     dispatch({ type: 'create_undo_snapshot' });