look resolves against every open pane's directory: clicked pane first, then most-recently-focused, search only when all fail

1 files changed, 40 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/src/pardes.zig b/src/pardes.zig
index 017892aa..d3376273 100644
--- a/src/pardes.zig
+++ b/src/pardes.zig
@@ -2551,20 +2551,17 @@ pub const Pardes = struct {
         return true;
     }
 
-    /// n/N on a terminal pane (normal mode): select the next/previous output
-    /// row whose leading file-ish word looks somewhere — resolves to a
-    /// file/dir/path:NNN exactly as a right click would — and look it. The
-    /// scan only resolves (realpath, no pane opens, no scrolls); the one
-    /// chosen row gets the real look. The modal cursor is the position, so
-    /// the walk continues from wherever j/k left it. The look may focus what
-    /// it opened; focus comes back here so the next n keeps stepping.
     /// n/N on a terminal pane: a MOTION over lookable tokens. Select the
     /// next/prev whitespace-separated token that look.resolve can turn into a
     /// file/dir (several per line: an ls row hops big.txt -> plain.txt), park
     /// the cursor at its start, open NOTHING — Enter's normal-mode handler
     /// looks the selection. Wraps around when nothing lies in the direction
     /// (fresh out of tty mode the cursor sits below the output, so the first
-    /// n lands on the first token).
+    /// n lands on the first token). Deliberately only THIS pane's directory,
+    /// where the look itself walks every pane's: the motion resolves every
+    /// token it steps over, so the other directories would cost tokens ×
+    /// panes realpaths on a single keystroke — and a token the motion skips
+    /// is still openable by looking it, which is all n/N is a shortcut for.
     fn lookStep(p: *Pardes, pane: *Pane, pl: PaneLines, delta: i32) void {
         _ = p; // a pure motion now: Enter's normal-mode handler does the look
         pane.pinCursor(); // fresh out of tty mode the cursor still tracks the shell
@@ -4638,32 +4635,48 @@ pub const Pardes = struct {
         const pane = p.panes[id] orelse return;
         if (button == .right) {
             var realbuf: [4096]u8 = undefined;
-            var cwdbuf: [1024]u8 = undefined;
-            const cwd: []const u8 = if (pane.file) |f|
-                (std.fs.path.dirname(f.path) orelse "/")
-            else blk: {
-                const c = pane.cwdSlice();
-                @memcpy(cwdbuf[0..c.len], c);
-                break :blk cwdbuf[0..c.len];
-            };
             // an already-loaded pane wins BEFORE any filesystem resolve: the
             // web build has no fs (a look would otherwise be inert even for
             // panes sitting in the session), and native gets the same dedup
             // it always did, just without touching disk. Pane paths are
             // canonical (realpath'd or dump-given), so match the word as-is
-            // and cwd-joined; anything fancier falls through to resolve.
-            {
-                const pl = look.parsePathLine(std.mem.trim(u8, txt, " \t\r\n"));
-                if (pl.path.len > 0) {
-                    if (p.focusPaneByPath(pl.path, pl.line, pl.col)) return;
-                    if (pl.path[0] != '/') {
-                        var joinbuf: [2048]u8 = undefined;
-                        if (std.fmt.bufPrint(&joinbuf, "{s}/{s}", .{ cwd, pl.path }) catch null) |j|
-                            if (p.focusPaneByPath(j, pl.line, pl.col)) return;
-                    }
+            // here and joined onto each directory below.
+            const pl = look.parsePathLine(std.mem.trim(u8, txt, " \t\r\n"));
+            if (pl.path.len > 0 and p.focusPaneByPath(pl.path, pl.line, pl.col)) return;
+            // The word is resolved against the pane DIRECTORIES in access
+            // order: the pane the click came from FIRST — its answer is the
+            // one taken, so nothing that resolves today moves — then every
+            // other live pane, most recently focused first (focus_hist runs
+            // least-recent -> active, so it is that array backwards; the
+            // clicked pane is not always `active`, a right click does not
+            // focus). Only when ALL of them fail does the word fall through to
+            // the search below: a name you can read in one window is openable
+            // from any of them. Each attempt is a realpath + an open and
+            // shells share cwds constantly, so a seen-list holds every
+            // directory to one try; an absolute word — and `@pN`, which reads
+            // no directory at all — answers the same everywhere and stops
+            // after the first pass.
+            var hit: look.Target = .none;
+            var seen: [MAX_PANES][]const u8 = undefined;
+            var nseen: usize = 0;
+            var n: usize = 0;
+            cand: while (n <= p.nfocus) : (n += 1) {
+                const k = if (n == 0) id else p.focus_hist[p.nfocus - n];
+                if (n > 0 and k == id) continue; // tried first, skip the rerun
+                const op = p.panes[k] orelse continue;
+                const dir = if (op.file) |f| (std.fs.path.dirname(f.path) orelse "/") else op.cwdSlice();
+                for (seen[0..nseen]) |s| if (std.mem.eql(u8, s, dir)) continue :cand;
+                seen[nseen] = dir;
+                nseen += 1;
+                if (pl.path.len > 0 and pl.path[0] != '/') {
+                    var joinbuf: [2048]u8 = undefined;
+                    if (std.fmt.bufPrint(&joinbuf, "{s}/{s}", .{ dir, pl.path }) catch null) |j|
+                        if (p.focusPaneByPath(j, pl.line, pl.col)) return;
                 }
+                hit = look.resolve(txt, dir, &realbuf);
+                if (hit != .none or pl.path.len == 0 or pl.path[0] == '/') break;
             }
-            switch (look.resolve(txt, cwd, &realbuf)) {
+            switch (hit) {
                 // acme button-3: a word that names no file/dir is a search of
                 // the pane it was clicked in — exactly what `/` runs (n/N then
                 // walk the results). Paths (src/a/b.rs:100) still resolve above