[eric-engberg]

What

Import Preview ignored Escape, and three menus lost the highlighted row after coming back from a sub-screen:

• Import Preview: Escape now steps back one screen. From the "Apply this import? It adds a shell command…" confirmation it returns to the preview. From the preview it leaves the import, as Cancel does.
• Import Preview: after Merge, then Cancel on that confirmation, the preview comes back on Merge with the Merge diff instead of on Replace All.
• Configure Status Line: Escape on a Refresh Interval or cache TTL prompt brings the list back on the row that opened it.
• Install to Claude Code: going back from the package manager step (Escape or "← Back") keeps Auto-update highlighted when that was the choice.

Why (evidence)

• Escape did nothing on either Import Preview screen. The only way out was to arrow down to Cancel and press Enter. docs/USAGE.md already says "Cancel/Escape to return to the preview", and the Import Config path dialog one step earlier goes back on Escape. The dialog had no input handler of its own, and List only handles the arrows and Enter.
• Merge, Enter, then Cancel ("Go back to the preview without importing") moved the highlight to Replace All and switched the diff to Replace. The confirmation doesn't name the mode, so pressing Enter again and confirming applied Replace All. That resets every setting the file leaves out to its default in the working config. In a component test, Enter, Down, Enter after the Cancel called onApply('replace').
• Configure Status Line: after cancelling Custom Command Cache TTL, the next Enter opened "Enter refresh interval in seconds (1-60):". Saving returns to the Main Menu, so only cancelling showed the problem.
• Install: after picking Auto-update and pressing Escape, the highlight and description were Pinned global install, and Enter led to npm install -g / bun add -g. A confirmation still comes before anything installs.

The last three share one cause. A sub-screen (a confirmation, a prompt or the next step) is drawn in place of the menu's List. The List unmounts, and when it mounts again it starts on its first row, because initialSelection defaults to 0 or was hard-coded to 0. Powerline Setup and Line Selector already carry their selection across that remount.

How

• ImportPreviewDialog: a useInput for Escape that goes back to the preview while the confirmation is open and calls onCancel otherwise. The main List gets initialSelection from previewMode, which already tracks the highlighted mode for the diff.
• RefreshIntervalMenu: remembers the highlighted row through onSelectionChange and passes it back as initialSelection, as PowerlineSetup does. The index counts selectable rows only, so it stays right when Refresh Interval is disabled.
• InstallMenu: the style List starts on the updateStyle still held from the first pick instead of a hard-coded 0.

Demo

Escape on Import Preview. Before the fix, two Escapes on the shell-command confirmation do nothing. After it, the first returns to the preview and the second to the Main Menu.

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Merge, then Cancel on the confirmation. Before the fix, the preview comes back on Replace All with the Replace diff. After it, the preview stays on Merge with the Merge diff.

Powerline

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Configure Status Line after Escape on a TTL prompt. Before the fix, the highlight returns to Refresh Interval and Enter opens its prompt. After it, Custom Command Cache TTL stays highlighted.

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Plain

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Install, back from the package manager step. Before the fix, Pinned global install is highlighted again. After it, Auto-update stays highlighted.

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Testing

• On main as of fix: use env override and settings for usable context ratio calculation #407 (71e8b42): merges cleanly, bun run lint is clean, and bun test gives 3943 pass, 0 fail. The built CLI under Bun 1.4.4 and Node 26.13.0 matches main in plain and Powerline mode with the baseline configs, and the TUI opens and exits cleanly. It adds no JavaScript or Node API newer than Node 14, the build's target.
• 5 new Ink tests. They render the real components with simulated keys, and each key waits for its visible effect. There are 3 for Import Preview and 1 each for Configure Status Line and Install. All 5 fail on main under both Bun and Node, and all pass here.
• bun test: 3175 pass, 0 fail, 178 files.
• Changed test files under Node 26.10.0 (vitest): 52/52 pass. The same files on main: 45/45.
• Stability: the four changed test files ran 8 times in a row and 6 times in parallel, 52/52 every run.
• bun run lint: clean.
• Built dist/ under Bun 1.4.2 and Node 26.10.0: plain and Powerline piped renders are identical across runtimes and match main. The TUI opens and exits cleanly on both.