Goals

Make TUI more usable

Non-goals

Add functionality. This request is just regarding making the existing functionality work better.

Background

TUI is great for visually organizing tasks, but honestly I find it extremely hard to use. There are a number of issues that seem like intentional limitations that I'm not quite sure what the reason is.

Proposal

1. Automatically collapse/hide cached actions during runs. When I run turbo x y z and have many tasks for x/y/z in my repo, a few hundreds tasks run. Most of the time the vast majority of these are cached. Using TUI makes it really difficult to find the tasks that are actively running. The cached actions should be hidden or collapsed somewhere by default. This is kind of along the lines of Turborepo is not really easy to read in GitHub actions #10483.
2. Fix issues with scrolling: scrolling seems artificially slow for some reason. Inside the action logs, it seems like my scrolling is throttled and it makes scrolling through large logs difficult
3. Allow double clicking inside logs. A common workflow I will use is to output JSON.stringify(x) to quickly view x in my terminal. With TUI, there is no way to double click to copy a string. I have to scroll and am limited by the second point which takes quite a while for large objects (typically the use case for this)
4. Allow cmd+c to copy. That key binding is muscle memory for just about everyone and it seems like an arbitrary limitation to not allow cmd+c to work
5. Allow scroll wheel to scroll through tasks. Using keys is much slower
6. Nice to have: search via text filter for running tasks