fix: avoid Exec restore panic with WithInput(nil) by lawrence3699 · Pull Request #1680 · charmbracelet/bubbletea

lawrence3699 · 2026-04-19T12:42:39Z

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Summary

Fix the WithInput(nil) + ExecProcess panic reported in the #761 discussion.

Problem

#761 recommends tea.WithInput(nil) as the workaround when there is no TTY available. That works until a program executes tea.ExecProcess(...) and returns to Bubble Tea.

At that point RestoreTerminal() always called initInputReader(false), even when input had been explicitly disabled. That rebuilds the cancel reader with p.input == nil and panics in cancelreader.

Minimal repro:

func (m model) Init() tea.Cmd {
    return tea.ExecProcess(exec.Command("true"), func(err error) tea.Msg {
        return finishedMsg{err}
    })
}

func main() {
    _, err := tea.NewProgram(model{}, tea.WithInput(nil)).Run()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
}

Fix

Make RestoreTerminal() match the initial startup path in Run() and only reinitialize the input reader when p.input != nil.

Added TestTeaExecWithNilInput to cover the regression.

Validation

go test -run 'TestTeaExec|TestTeaExecWithNilInput' .
go test ./...

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Pull request overview

Fixes a panic when running ExecProcess in a program configured with WithInput(nil) by ensuring terminal restoration does not attempt to reinitialize the input reader when input is explicitly disabled.

Changes:

Update Program.RestoreTerminal() to only call initInputReader(false) when p.input != nil.
Add a regression test covering ExecProcess with WithInput(nil) to prevent reintroducing the panic.

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File	Description
`tea.go`	Prevents `RestoreTerminal()` from reinitializing the cancel reader when input is disabled (`p.input == nil`).
`exec_test.go`	Adds a regression test that runs `ExecProcess` under `WithInput(nil)` to ensure no panic and no error.

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Copilot · 2026-04-19T12:45:52Z

+		return execFinishedMsg{err}
+	})
+}
+


testExecNoInputModel embeds testExecModel, but it relies on the promoted Update method whose receiver is *testExecModel. That Update returns m (a *testExecModel), so after the first update the program’s model type changes from *testExecNoInputModel to *testExecModel. This is a bit brittle/confusing for a regression test; consider giving testExecNoInputModel its own Update/View (or avoid embedding) so it consistently returns the same concrete model type.

Suggested change

func (m *testExecNoInputModel) Update(msg Msg) (Model, Cmd) {

switch msg := msg.(type) {

case execFinishedMsg:

if msg.err != nil {

m.err = msg.err

}

return m, Quit

}

return m, nil

}

func (m *testExecNoInputModel) View() View {

return m.testExecModel.View()

}

codecov · 2026-04-20T13:41:42Z

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✅ Project coverage is 55.64%. Comparing base (fdcd0cf) to head (8e05899).
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aymanbagabas · 2026-04-20T13:45:20Z

@lawrence3699 Thank you so much!

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fix: skip input reader restore when input is disabled

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+func (m *testExecNoInputModel) Update(msg Msg) (Model, Cmd) {
+	switch msg := msg.(type) {
+	case execFinishedMsg:
+		if msg.err != nil {
+			m.err = msg.err
+		}
+		return m, Quit
+	}
+	return m, nil
+}
+func (m *testExecNoInputModel) View() View {
+	return m.testExecModel.View()
+}

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