The panes present at boot are the log's first records, before what an init file said

The boot announce ran after the init file, so its msg (ThemeSel: renamed to Themes) came before new 1. A msg or path record said while the log is still empty now announces the panes first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/exec.zig b/src/exec.zig
index 9e46b434..421bfd13 100644
--- a/src/exec.zig
+++ b/src/exec.zig
@@ -824,10 +824,8 @@ pub fn applyStartupConfig(p: *Pardes) void {
 }
 
 test "an init file's ThemeSel runs as Themes and says it was renamed" {
-    const p = try Pardes.init(std.testing.allocator, .{ .tty_only = true, .cols = 80, .rows = 24 });
+    const p = try Pardes.init(std.testing.allocator, .{ .tty_only = true, .cols = 80, .rows = 24, .startup_config = "ThemeSel\n" });
     defer p.deinit();
-    p.opts.startup_config = "ThemeSel\n";
-    applyStartupConfig(p);
     var listed = false;
     for (p.panes) |slot| if (slot) |pane| if (pane.file) |f| if (f.output) |o| {
         listed = listed or std.meta.eql(o.from, panes.Output.Origin{ .cmd = .Themes });
@@ -838,6 +836,14 @@ test "an init file's ThemeSel runs as Themes and says it was renamed" {
         said = said or std.mem.eql(u8, pane.msg[0..pane.msg_len], "ThemeSel: renamed to Themes");
     };
     try std.testing.expect(said);
+    // The panes there at boot are the log's first records, before what the
+    // init file said.
+    const th = @import("ninep/testing.zig");
+    const log = @intFromEnum(pardes.ctlfs.TopFile.log);
+    const h = th.call(p, .{ .tag = 1, .op = .open, .node = log }).reply.handle;
+    defer _ = th.call(p, .{ .tag = 3, .op = .release, .node = log, .handle = h });
+    const text = th.call(p, .{ .tag = 2, .op = .read, .node = log, .handle = h, .size = 1 << 16 }).bytes;
+    try std.testing.expectStringStartsWith(text, "new ");
 }
 
 test "an init file's retired ColumnTags line is said and ignored" {