Light a held column grip, and rail its landing beside the rule where the GUI shows it

The column grip worked in the GUI but showed nothing anyone could see.
Driving the real SDL window with pixel mouse events, press, drag and
release all reach the core and reorder or resize the column; the feedback
is what failed. The grip kept its muted color while held, and a reorder's
insertion rail was drawn in the gutter cell at the destination edge. The
GUI paints that cell as the column's scroll rail, and at the window's left
edge, the common case of moving the right column first, the dashes were
lost in it. From the leftmost column, a drag short of a neighbour's middle
shows no rail, rightly, since nothing would move, but nothing said the
grip was even held.

A held grip now lights in column_box, the accent its muted color is mixed
from, and the rail takes that color. The rail runs in the seam cell left of
where the column's rule will land, where a border drag's rail runs, for a
reorder and a left-edge move alike; at the window's left edge, which has no
seam, it runs just past the scroll rail, leaving column 0's grip and pane
boxes whole. A carried column's pointer aims at a place, not a word, so the
column tags no longer light the word under it, and a release snaps the
layout as a border drag's does rather than animating it. The preview and the release both
ask layout.columnDrop where the column goes, so the rail stands where the
release puts the edge, and the drag no longer carries its unused column
index.

The GUI test feed takes ESC]777;mouse;<down|up|motion>;<button>;<x>;<y> in
window pixels and dispatches it as an SDL event. test/column_grip.py uses
it to drive the grip through the same pixel-to-cell and tag hit path as a
hand on the mouse, and checks the grip, the rail and the result against
GPU captures and the 9P grid.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>

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@@ -10,10 +10,14 @@ Pane and column command text leave a small gap after their aligned drag grips.
 GUI pane mode symbols are centered by their visible ink; changing the font or
 its size refreshes the cached measurements.
 The column grip has a different
-color from a pane grip. It stays blank and muted even when its column is active.
-Drag it left or right to move the whole column; the
-insertion line previews its destination. Only columns between the old and new
-positions shift. Each column keeps its width, panes and command text.
+color from a pane grip. It stays blank and muted even when its column is active,
+and lights in its full accent while it is held.
+Drag it past a neighbour's middle to move the whole column there; dropped short
+of that, it moves the column's left edge instead, as a border drag would. While
+it is held, a dashed rail in the grip's accent stands where the column's left
+edge will land, beside the rule as a border drag's rail does. Only columns
+between the old and new positions shift. Each column keeps its width, panes and
+command text.
 
 When Look opens the first document and its source column is too narrow for
 a new column, it splits below the originating pane, just like `Tty`, instead