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pi-messages

Turns pi's markdown code blocks into rounded terminal cards with language icons, soft wrap, and keyboard-driven copy and insert.

extensions✓ Sep 21

Run pi install git:github.com/DarkKevo/pi-messages and reload with /reload, or run the repo's install.sh to link a local clone into your pi extensions folder. Later updates come from pi update --extensions; removal is pi remove git:github.com/DarkKevo/pi-messages.

## TL;DR

A pi extension that renders markdown code blocks as rounded terminal cards with Nerd Font language icons and soft-wrapped lines, adding keyboard-driven copy and insert shortcuts that keep box-drawing characters out of your clipboard.

## Key points

• $Clean copy by design: code lines carry no side bars, so triple-click or a mouse drag copies pure code, under a header with the language glyph or file path inside symmetric rounded corners.
• $Soft wrap, no truncation: overlong lines wrap through wrapTextWithAnsi, respecting indentation, background color, and syntax highlighting, so the code stays fully intact instead of ending in an ellipsis.
• $Two copy surfaces: Alt+C and /cc open a picker when several blocks exist, /cc all concatenates every real code block while diffs and patches are rendered but excluded, and /cc <n> copies block n directly.
• $Insert into the prompt: Alt+I and /ci list available snippets for pi's editor, /ci all inserts everything at once, and pastes longer than ten lines collapse to a compact placeholder automatically.
• $Theme-aware styling: the card background alpha-blends the active theme's toolSuccessBg at 50 percent toward the terminal background for a subtle translucent look, and the UI follows the active theme rather than a fixed skin.

## FAQ

## References

• README ↗

Last updated: Sep 21, 2026