Plan 9 idiom for the control filesystem, and the regressions a624a56 left

2026-10-01T03:12:14Z

The 9P tree stops being a command language wearing a filesystem. /new created a pane as a side effect of a *read*; it is now Tcreate in /pane, with Tremove to close, which cloud9's engine has always supported and the editor never declared: tree.zig now says `features = .{ .create = true, .remove = true }`. Eleven pane ctl verbs become files that can be read as well as written -- dot, limit, dirty, mark, scroll, look, exec -- leaving ctl with `get`, the one verb no file would say better. Root /ctl splits into a read-only /status and the /look and /exec files whose write IS the click. stat carries real sizes where it used to answer 0, and qid versions track a pane's revision, so a client can poll for change without re-reading the body. Commit a624a56 moved raw-tty keys to an early-return branch that knew only Ctrl-B and bare Escape, and in the same edit deleted the paste branch below it. That cost Shift-Escape (the unconditional way out of tty mode) and both paste chords: Ctrl-V and Ctrl-Shift-V reached the child as keystrokes, so an agent CLI running in a pane took Ctrl-V for its image-paste binding and answered "No image found in clipboard". Both are restored, with tests. Nested detection was not subtly broken but deleted: 60367d8 removed nested.zig's process-ancestry walk and left "am I inside pardes" derived from PARDES_FORWARD_LOOK, which read "0" both for --nested and for "the listener did not come up". PARDES_PID now answers that question on its own, checked with kill(pid, 0); PARDES_9P and PARDES_PANE answer how to reach it; the flag is gone. The posted-9P registry also self-heals now -- a session that aborts cannot unlink its own socket, so posting sweeps entries whose target refuses a connection, symlinks only and on a definite ECONNREFUSED only. Elsewhere: tty scrolling is sticky-bottom, following new output only from the last row, with typing and entering raw mode snapping back to live; the boot layouts are a Boot enum instead of a chain of ifs, and the bare tty startup (Boot.tty, which main.zig names) opens an empty text pane under the shell while tests keep Boot.tty_shell; builtins announce themselves on the message row under a Verbose setting that is on by default; Config prints each setting the way you would type it back, so WindowOpacity 70 rather than "WindowOpacity: 70%"; LocationsConfig opens its window only when called bare; every tagline puts the word that closes the thing last, and a column now outlives its panes -- closing the last one leaves an empty pane, and only Delcol, newly on the column tagline, takes the column away. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context)

Flatten the 9P control tree and move it out of fs.zig

2026-10-01T03:12:14Z

The served tree loses the self/ level: /index /ctl /new /log /screen /listeners /pane//... /os, with /src only in -Dembed-sources=true builds (default off, on for esp32p4). ctl speaks the editor's own language with two lowercase verbs, look TEXT and exec TEXT, plus acme's addr verbs; the new/ factory directory becomes one clone file; cons is gone (exec Msg); name and sel are files; stats report real lengths, modes and mtimes; /log streams pane new/del/rename/save events. The tree code lives in src/ninep/ (tree, pane, ctl, addr, pty, events, screen, sources); fs.zig keeps host access, mounts, resolution and find/grep. Same engine and transports. README (fs-help.txt) and docs rewritten; tests updated and extended. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1

Cycle pane input modes with Mode and retain terminal tag access

2026-09-15T20:24:42Z

trunk: resume before the Reload experiment

2026-09-15T20:24:42Z

Empty marker on the last pre-Reload change. Keep the Reload experiment on reload (3801914), its first change on reload-start (200a1fc), and the unfinished performance investigation on reload-perf-wip.

pardes.git/test/tag_cleanup.py, branch main

Plan 9 idiom for the control filesystem, and the regressions a624a56 left

Flatten the 9P control tree and move it out of fs.zig

Cycle pane input modes with Mode and retain terminal tag access

trunk: resume before the Reload experiment