fix(cli): use the unicode ellipsis in user-facing interface text

.changeset/tui-unicode-ellipsis.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@moonshot-ai/kimi-code": patch
+"kimi-code": patch
+---
+
+Use the Unicode ellipsis "…" in user-facing TUI and VS Code webview text.

apps/kimi-code/src/cli/sub/login-flow.ts

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ export async function runLoginFlow(options: { region?: KimiRegion } = {}): Promi
             data.expiresIn !== null && data.expiresIn !== undefined
               ? `Code expires in ${data.expiresIn}s.`
               : undefined,
-            'Waiting for authorization to complete...',
+            'Waiting for authorization to complete…',
             '',
           ]
             .filter((line): line is string => line !== undefined)

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/commands/plugins.ts

@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ async function installFromPanel(
   if (official) {
     panel.setInstalling(truncateForStatus(label));
   } else {
-    host.showStatus(`Installing or updating ${label} from marketplace...`);
+    host.showStatus(`Installing or updating ${label} from marketplace…`);
   }
   host.state.ui.requestRender();
   try {

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/components/dialogs/compaction.ts

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ export class CompactionComponent extends Container {
       return `${bullet}${label}`;
     }
     const bullet = this.blinkOn ? currentTheme.fg('text', STATUS_BULLET) : '  ';
-    const label = currentTheme.boldFg('primary', 'Compacting context...');
+    const label = currentTheme.boldFg('primary', 'Compacting context…');
     const tip = this.tip ? currentTheme.fg('textDim', ` · Tip: ${this.tip}`) : '';
     return `${bullet}${label}${tip}`;
   }

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/components/dialogs/question-dialog.ts

@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ export class QuestionDialogComponent extends Container implements Focusable {
         appendWrapped(lines, '   ', '   ', bodyLine, renderWidth, dim);
       }
       if (bodyLines.length > visibleBodyLines.length) {
-        lines.push(dim(`   ... ${String(bodyLines.length - visibleBodyLines.length)} more lines`));
+        lines.push(dim(`   … ${String(bodyLines.length - visibleBodyLines.length)} more lines`));
       }
     }
 

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/components/dialogs/session-picker.ts

@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ export class SessionPickerComponent extends Container implements Focusable {
     if (this.loading) {
       lines.push(currentTheme.boldFg('primary', truncateToWidth(title, width, ELLIPSIS)));
       lines.push(
-        currentTheme.fg('textMuted', truncateToWidth('Loading sessions...', width, ELLIPSIS)),
+        currentTheme.fg('textMuted', truncateToWidth('Loading sessions…', width, ELLIPSIS)),
       );
       lines.push(currentTheme.fg('primary', '─'.repeat(width)));
       return lines;

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/components/messages/agent-swarm-progress.ts

@@ -33,15 +33,15 @@ const AGENT_SWARM_LEFT_INDENT = ' ';
 const AGENT_SWARM_RIGHT_GAP = 1;
 const AGENT_SWARM_NON_GRID_LINES = 6;
 const COMPACT_TERMINAL_MARK_WIDTH = 1;
-const ORCHESTRATING_LABEL = 'Orchestrating...';
-const PROMPTING_LABEL = 'Prompting...';
-const WORKING_LABEL = 'Working...';
+const ORCHESTRATING_LABEL = 'Orchestrating…';
+const PROMPTING_LABEL = 'Prompting…';
+const WORKING_LABEL = 'Working…';
 const COMPLETED_LABEL = 'Completed.';
 const FAILED_LABEL = 'Failed.';
 const ABORTED_LABEL = 'Aborted.';
 const CANCELLED_LABEL = 'Cancelled.';
-const QUEUED_LABEL = 'Queued...';
-const SUSPENDED_LABEL = 'Rate limited...';
+const QUEUED_LABEL = 'Queued…';
+const SUSPENDED_LABEL = 'Rate limited…';
 const RESUMED_ITEM_LABEL = '(resumed)';
 const CANCELLED_LABEL_DARKEN_FACTOR = 0.72;
 const AGENT_SWARM_TITLE_ACCENT_BIAS = 1.3;

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/components/messages/shell-run.ts

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const TIMER_INTERVAL_MS = 1000;
 const MAX_COMBINED_CHARS = 256 * 1024;
 const KEEP_COMBINED_CHARS = 64 * 1024;
 
-const TRUNCATED_RUNNING_NOTICE = '... (output truncated)';
+const TRUNCATED_RUNNING_NOTICE = '… (output truncated)';
 
 /**
  * Live view for a user-initiated `!` shell command. Two phases:

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/components/messages/thinking.ts

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ export class ThinkingComponent implements Component {
       );
       rendered = [
         '',
-        spinner + currentTheme.fg('textDim', 'thinking...'),
+        spinner + currentTheme.fg('textDim', 'thinking…'),
         ...visibleLines.map((line) => MESSAGE_INDENT + line),
       ];
     } else {
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ export class ThinkingComponent implements Component {
         // Leading blank + first PREVIEW_LINES content lines + hint line.
         const truncated = lines.slice(0, 1 + THINKING_PREVIEW_LINES);
         const remaining = contentLines.length - THINKING_PREVIEW_LINES;
-        const hint = `... (${String(remaining)} more lines, ctrl+o to expand)`;
+        const hint = `… (${String(remaining)} more lines, ctrl+o to expand)`;
         const indentWidth = Math.min(MESSAGE_INDENT.length, Math.max(0, width));
         const hintWidth = Math.max(0, width - indentWidth);
         truncated.push(

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/components/messages/tool-call.ts

@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ function truncateArgValue(key: string, value: string): string {
     // still tell which file is being touched.
     return '…' + value.slice(value.length - (MAX_ARG_LENGTH - 1));
   }
-  return value.slice(0, MAX_ARG_LENGTH - 3) + '...';
+  return value.slice(0, MAX_ARG_LENGTH - 1) + '…';
 }
 
 function makeWorkspaceRelativePath(filePath: string, workspaceDir: string | undefined): string {
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ export class ToolCallComponent extends Container {
     const existingOutput = options?.replace === true ? '' : (activity?.output ?? '');
     let output = existingOutput + text;
     if (output.length > MAX_LIVE_OUTPUT_CHARS) {
-      output = `[...truncated]\n${output.slice(output.length - MAX_LIVE_OUTPUT_CHARS)}`;
+      output = `[…truncated]\n${output.slice(output.length - MAX_LIVE_OUTPUT_CHARS)}`;
     }
     this.upsertSubToolActivity(id, name, args, activity?.phase ?? 'ongoing', output);
     this.rebuildContent();
@@ -1654,7 +1654,7 @@ export class ToolCallComponent extends Container {
       const suffix = this.hiddenSubCallCount > 1 ? 's' : '';
       this.addChild(
         new Text(
-          currentTheme.italic(currentTheme.dim(`    ${String(this.hiddenSubCallCount)} more tool call${suffix} ...`)),
+          currentTheme.italic(currentTheme.dim(`    ${String(this.hiddenSubCallCount)} more tool call${suffix} …`)),
           0,
           0,
         ),
@@ -2024,7 +2024,7 @@ export class ToolCallComponent extends Container {
         this.addChild(
           new Text(
             currentTheme.dim(
-              `... (${String(remaining)} more lines, ${String(allLines.length)} total, ctrl+o to expand)`,
+              `… (${String(remaining)} more lines, ${String(allLines.length)} total, ctrl+o to expand)`,
             ),
             2,
             0,

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/components/messages/tool-renderers/truncated.ts

@@ -87,15 +87,15 @@ export class TruncatedOutputComponent implements Component {
     if (this.tail) {
       const shown = contentLines.slice(contentLines.length - this.maxLines);
       return [
-        this.renderHint(width, `... (${String(remaining)} earlier lines)`),
+        this.renderHint(width, `… (${String(remaining)} earlier lines)`),
         ...shown,
       ];
     }
 
     const shown = contentLines.slice(0, this.maxLines);
     const hint = this.expandHint
-      ? `... (${String(remaining)} more lines, ctrl+o to expand)`
-      : `... (${String(remaining)} more lines)`;
+      ? `… (${String(remaining)} more lines, ctrl+o to expand)`
+      : `… (${String(remaining)} more lines)`;
     return [...shown, this.renderHint(width, hint)];
   }
 }

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/components/panes/btw-panel.ts

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ export class BtwPanelComponent implements Component {
       lines.push(...this.renderTurn(turn, width));
     }
     if (this.turns.length === 0) {
-      lines.push(chalk.hex(currentTheme.palette.textDim)('Ready for a side question...'));
+      lines.push(chalk.hex(currentTheme.palette.textDim)('Ready for a side question…'));
     }
     lines.push(...this.renderTransientNotices(width));
     return this.fitBodyLines(lines);
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ export class BtwPanelComponent implements Component {
           : thinkingLines;
       lines.push(...visibleThinking);
     } else if (turn.error === undefined) {
-      lines.push(chalk.hex(currentTheme.palette.textDim)('Waiting for answer...'));
+      lines.push(chalk.hex(currentTheme.palette.textDim)('Waiting for answer…'));
     }
     if (turn.error !== undefined) {
       const error = chalk.hex(currentTheme.palette.error)(turn.error);

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/kimi-tui.ts

@@ -3340,7 +3340,7 @@ export class KimiTUI {
         break;
       }
       case 'composing': {
-        const spinner = this.ensureActivitySpinner('braille', 'working...', (s) =>
+        const spinner = this.ensureActivitySpinner('braille', 'working…', (s) =>
           currentTheme.fg('primary', s),
         );
         this.syncAgentSwarmActivitySpinner(undefined);

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/utils/background-agent-status.ts

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ function normalizeBackgroundField(value: string | undefined): string | undefined
   const collapsed = value.trim().replaceAll(/\s+/g, ' ');
   if (collapsed.length === 0) return undefined;
   if (collapsed.length <= MAX_BACKGROUND_FIELD_LENGTH) return collapsed;
-  return `${collapsed.slice(0, MAX_BACKGROUND_FIELD_LENGTH - 3)}...`;
+  return `${collapsed.slice(0, MAX_BACKGROUND_FIELD_LENGTH - 1)}…`;
 }
 
 export function formatBackgroundAgentTranscript(

apps/kimi-code/src/tui/utils/background-task-status.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ function truncate(value: string | undefined): string | undefined {
   const collapsed = value.trim().replaceAll(/\s+/g, ' ');
   if (collapsed.length === 0) return undefined;
   if (collapsed.length <= MAX_DETAIL_LENGTH) return collapsed;
-  return `${collapsed.slice(0, MAX_DETAIL_LENGTH - 3)}...`;
+  return `${collapsed.slice(0, MAX_DETAIL_LENGTH - 1)}…`;
 }
 
 export type BackgroundTaskTranscriptPhase = 'started' | 'updated' | 'terminal';

apps/kimi-code/test/tui/activity-pane.test.ts

@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ describe('updateActivityPane terminal progress', () => {
       expect(setProgress).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(true);
       expect(state.activitySpinner).not.toBeNull();
       expect(state.activityContainer.children).toHaveLength(0);
-      expect(strip(progress.render(80).join('\n'))).toContain('🌑 Working...');
+      expect(strip(progress.render(80).join('\n'))).toContain('🌑 Working…');
 
       state.activitySpinner?.instance.stop();
       driver.sessionEventHandler.clearAgentSwarmProgress();
@@ -209,8 +209,8 @@ describe('updateActivityPane terminal progress', () => {
       expect(state.activitySpinner).not.toBeNull();
       expect(state.activityContainer.children).toHaveLength(1);
       const output = strip(progress.render(80).join('\n'));
-      expect(output).toContain('  Working...');
-      expect(output).not.toContain('🌑 Working...');
+      expect(output).toContain('  Working…');
+      expect(output).not.toContain('🌑 Working…');
 
       state.activitySpinner?.instance.stop();
       driver.sessionEventHandler.clearAgentSwarmProgress();

apps/kimi-code/test/tui/components/dialogs/compaction.test.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ describe('CompactionComponent', () => {
       const lines = component.render(120).map(strip);
       const text = lines.join('\n');
 
-      expect(text).toContain('Compacting context...');
+      expect(text).toContain('Compacting context…');
       expect(text).toContain('  keep the recent files only');
     } finally {
       component.dispose();
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ describe('CompactionComponent', () => {
       const lines = component.render(120).map(strip);
       const text = lines.join('\n');
 
-      expect(text).toContain('Compacting context... · Tip: ctrl+s: steer mid-turn');
+      expect(text).toContain('Compacting context… · Tip: ctrl+s: steer mid-turn');
     } finally {
       component.dispose();
     }
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ describe('CompactionComponent', () => {
       const text = lines.join('\n');
 
       expect(text).toContain('Compaction cancelled');
-      expect(text).not.toContain('Compacting context...');
+      expect(text).not.toContain('Compacting context…');
     } finally {
       component.dispose();
     }
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ describe('CompactionComponent', () => {
 
     try {
       const headerOf = (): string => {
-        const line = component.render(120).find((l) => strip(l).includes('Compacting context...'));
+        const line = component.render(120).find((l) => strip(l).includes('Compacting context…'));
         if (line === undefined) throw new Error('header line not found');
         return line;
       };