--- brick-3.0-orig/brick.cabal	2026-11-01 18:07:31.421766377 +1100
+++ brick-3.0/brick.cabal	2026-11-01 18:40:11.729736331 +1100
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
                        config-ini,
                        vector,
                        stm >= 2.4.3,
-                       text >= 2.1.2,
+                       text >= 1.2.5,
                        text-zipper >= 0.13,
                        template-haskell,
                        deepseq >= 1.3 && < 1.6,
--- brick-3.0-orig/src/Brick/Widgets/Menu.hs	2026-11-01 18:07:31.430766032 +1100
+++ brick-3.0/src/Brick/Widgets/Menu.hs	2026-11-01 18:55:11.575645878 +1100
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE MultiWayIf #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE PatternSynonyms #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE ViewPatterns #-}
 {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-unused-top-binds #-}
 -- | This module provides a menu widget that is similar to the ones
 -- commonly found in most graphical interface toolkits. Menus carry
@@ -182,6 +184,22 @@
 import Brick.Keybindings.KeyConfig
 import Brick.Keybindings.Pretty
 
+-- from text 2.1.2
+-- | Bidirectional pattern synonym for 'empty' and 'null' (both /O(1)/),
+-- to be used together with '(:<)' or '(:>)'.
+--
+-- @since 2.1.2
+pattern Empty :: T.Text
+pattern Empty <- (T.null -> True) where
+  Empty = T.empty
+
+-- from text 2.1.2
+pattern (:<) :: Char -> T.Text -> T.Text
+pattern x :< xs <- (T.uncons -> Just (x, xs)) where
+  (:<) = T.cons
+infixr 5 :<
+{-# COMPLETE Empty, (:<) #-}
+
 -- | The type of menu regions for embedding in the application's
 -- resource name and reporting mouse click events.
 data MenuRegion =
@@ -752,14 +770,14 @@
     where
         parts = go "" title
 
-        go acc (h T.:< tl)
+        go acc (h :< tl)
             | toLower h == toLower c =
                 (if T.null acc then [] else [txt acc]) <>
                 [withDefAttr menuTitleKeyHighlightAttr $ char h] <>
                 go "" tl
             | otherwise =
                 go (T.snoc acc h) tl
-        go acc T.Empty =
+        go acc Empty =
             if T.null acc then [] else [txt acc]
 
 -- | Select the next entry in a menu, or the first one if no entry is