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Addresses discussion #8269.

The report

mise watch --clear=reset --restart <task> leaves the terminal without echo after Ctrl+C — you type blindly until you run reset. --clear=clear is fine. Reported on 2026.2.17, confirmed by a second reporter on 2026.3.9.

The underlying reset is watchexec's, not mise's. watchexec --clear=reset --restart -- tail -f, with no mise involved, loses ECHO ECHOE ECHOK IEXTEN on Ctrl+C on both Linux and macOS. mise runs watchexec, so mise puts the terminal back.

What was wrong with the existing fix

#8273 added a save/restore around the watchexec call the same day the report came in. Two problems.

The restore was on a path Ctrl+C did not take. Until 2026.7.16, mise called std::process::exit from the signal path, so the process was gone before the line after cmd.run() was reached — the restore never ran, and the report stayed reproducible for five months after it was closed. That is what the second reporter hit. Bisecting releases under a pty:

	--clear=reset, Ctrl+C
2026.2.17 (as reported)	ECHO lost
2026.2.21 (first with #8273)	ECHO lost
2026.3.9 (second reporter)	ECHO lost
2026.7.15	ECHO lost
2026.7.16	ok

2026.7.16 is #11440, "defer process termination", which replaced that std::process::exit with an unwinding exit. So the fix started working as a side effect of an unrelated refactor, and nothing near the code says so. run_with_exit_signal still drops the command future when the ctrl-c branch wins — exit_signal_drops_command_future_before_returning asserts exactly that — so the straight-line restore only survives because cmd.run() blocks without yielding. Restoring from Drop covers a normal return, ?, and a dropped future alike, without depending on that.

It saved the wrong terminal. It read stdin, but the flags watchexec changes belong to the controlling terminal. Running watchexec with stdin on /dev/null and stdout on a second pty, the terminal left without echo is still the controlling one — the second pty is untouched. And tcgetattr(stdin) simply fails when stdin is not a terminal, so mise watch --clear=reset < /dev/null, and the same command with a pipe on stdin, captured nothing and restored nothing. This one still reproduces on 2026.8.10. The guard now prefers /dev/tty, falling back to the standard streams only when there is no controlling terminal to open.

Verification

Under a pty: send ^C to the foreground process group, then compare the line discipline's flags before and after. The harness was checked in both directions first — plain tail -f reports no change, and sh -c 'stty -echo; sleep 30' is caught.

	2026.8.10	this change
one terminal, stdin = tty	ok	ok
one terminal, stdin = /dev/null	ECHO lost	ok
one terminal, stdin = pipe	ECHO lost	ok
two terminals, stdin = ctty	ECHO lost	ok
two terminals, stdin = /dev/null	ECHO lost	ok

Four unit tests cover the descriptor search and the restore-on-drop against real ptys, including two at once, so neither half can regress silently the way the last fix did. cargo clippy --workspace --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo fmt --check are clean.

One thing worth knowing

The root cause is upstream: watchexec's --clear=reset does not restore the line discipline it resets when it is interrupted. mise papering over it is the right call regardless — mise spawned the process — but if you would rather this were fixed there, it is a watchexec issue and I can file it.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Improved the watch command’s help output, option defaults, validation, conflicts, and platform-specific path handling.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved terminal state restoration when watch commands are interrupted, cancelled, fail, or exit unexpectedly.
  • Prevented terminal settings from remaining altered after the watch process ends, including when multiple terminal streams are in use.
  • Improved compatibility when terminal access is unavailable through the default input stream.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for terminal detection, restoration, and option parsing.

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The watch CLI now uses usage_rs for argument parsing and help rendering. Unix watch execution captures terminal attributes through TerminalState and restores them on guard drop. Tests cover parsing, terminal discovery, and restoration.

Changes

Watch CLI and terminal handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Watch CLI parsing migration src/cli/watch.rs	Watch, WatchexecArgs, and related enums now use usage_rs annotations and value parsing. The changes update defaults, conflicts, help metadata, delimiters, visibility, and post-task option parsing.
Terminal guard lifecycle src/cli/watch.rs	Watch::run creates a TerminalState guard before watchexec runs. The guard prefers /dev/tty, falls back to standard streams, stores owned descriptors, and restores captured attributes on drop. Unix tests cover terminal discovery and restoration.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 9ea04

The change restores the controlling terminal state when watch exits, including interrupted and redirected-input cases; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Suggested reviewers: jdx, risu729, jambalaya56562

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WatchRun
  participant TerminalState
  participant Watchexec
  WatchRun->>TerminalState: capture terminal attributes
  WatchRun->>Watchexec: run watch command
  Watchexec-->>WatchRun: return, error, cancellation, or dropped future
  WatchRun-->>TerminalState: drop guard
  TerminalState->>TerminalState: restore saved attributes

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A rabbit tunes the watch command bright,
Then saves each terminal’s state just right.
When tasks return or futures stop,
The guard restores settings on drop.
ECHO hops back into the night.

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Greptile Summary

This PR replaces straight-line terminal restoration with a Unix drop guard that captures the controlling terminal and restores its attributes whenever the watch execution scope ends.

• Prefers /dev/tty, with standard-stream fallback when no controlling terminal can be opened.
• Retains owned descriptors until restoration.
• Adds PTY-backed tests for redirected descriptors, restoration on drop, and multiple terminals.

Confidence Score: 5/5

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Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
src/cli/watch.rs	Adds controlling-terminal capture and drop-based termios restoration around watchexec, with focused Unix PTY tests.

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