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@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ language-backend queries, and the shell pipe.
 | `gh` / `gl` | line start / line end (last char, not the newline) | | helix-verified |
 | `Ctrl-d` / `Ctrl-u` | half page down/up, cursor follows | matches `page_cursor_half_down/up` | helix-verified |
 | `Ctrl-f` | full page down | matches `page_down`; file panes only get `Ctrl-b` (see next row) | helix-verified |
-| `Ctrl-b` | file panes: full page up. Terminal panes: **raw tty mode toggle** (`opts.tty_toggle`, configurable; `Shift-Esc` is a second, fixed binding for the same toggle) | tty toggle is pardes-specific and wins on terminals; harness `pane:"tty"` cases avoid `Ctrl-b` | helix-verified (file) / pardes-specific (tty) |
+| `Ctrl-b` | file panes: full page up. Terminal panes: **toggle raw tty/editor mode** (`opts.tty_toggle`, configurable; `Shift-Esc` also enters). In raw tty Shift-Esc goes to the child | tty toggle is pardes-specific and wins on terminals; harness `pane:"tty"` cases avoid `Ctrl-b` | helix-verified (file) / pardes-specific (tty) |
 | `PageUp` / `PageDown` | full page | matches helix `page_up`/`page_down` (view scroll + cursor snap to the scrolloff edge) | helix-verified |
 | `zt` / `zz` / `zb` | scroll current line to top / center / bottom | matches `align_view_top/center/bottom` (helix harness pins scrolloff to pardes' 3) | helix-verified |
 | `i` `a` | insert at selection start / after selection end | helix semantics: `i` before the selection, `a` selects and appends after it | helix-verified |
@@ -113,15 +113,15 @@ language-backend queries, and the shell pipe.
 | `y` | yank selection; bare cursor yanks the 1-wide selection (char under cursor) | line-yank vim-ism removed (phase 5); yank keeps selection AND cursor (helix). Writes the DEFAULT REGISTER and nothing else — the system clipboard is `SPC y`, which is helix's own split and so moves this row TOWARDS helix, not away: a `d` of one character can no longer clobber what the desktop was holding | helix-verified |
 | `u` / `U` | undo / redo | restores the pre-edit selection (helix); snapshot granularity, no `Alt-u`/`Alt-U` history walking (skipped) | helix-verified |
 | `p` (normal) | paste the core's yank register after the selection | helix default-register semantics, and only the register — nothing on this path reads or writes the system clipboard. `SPC p` is the word that does, and on a tty its read is OSC 52, which most terminals refuse: an honest no-op there rather than a paste of the wrong text | helix-verified |
-| `Esc` (body normal) | clear a pending modal prefix / exit select mode, keeping the selection, then run `Last`: hop to the pane you were in before this one, whichever kind it was, exactly like `SPC j j` — so held down it alternates between two panes, two files as readily as a file and its shell. A PDF pane is the ONE exception: there Esc is the document's own cancel (drop the mouse selection and the search overlay, stay where you are reading) and `Shift-Esc` is the hop out, the same chord that leaves a raw tty | Pardes-specific focus binding layered on helix's cleanup. A leader path, tag, topbar or search owns Esc while it is active; raw tty forwards it | pardes-specific (cleanup helix-verified) |
+| `Esc` (body normal) | clear a pending modal prefix / exit select mode, keeping the selection, then run `Last`: hop to the pane you were in before this one, whichever kind it was, exactly like `SPC j j` — so held down it alternates between two panes, two files as readily as a file and its shell. A PDF pane is the ONE exception: there Esc is the document's own cancel (drop the mouse selection and the search overlay, stay where you are reading) and `Shift-Esc` is the hop out, while raw tty only intercepts unmodified Esc at a detected shell prompt | Pardes-specific focus binding layered on helix's cleanup. A leader path, tag, topbar or search owns Esc while it is active; raw tty forwards it | pardes-specific (cleanup helix-verified) |
 | `Esc` (insert) | back to normal mode, cursor right after the insertion (no vim left-step) | | helix-verified |
 | `Enter` (normal) | acme **look** chord: EXPLICIT selection, else file-ish word under cursor | pardes-specific, keep (helix normal-mode Enter unbound). Covers helix `gf`. Implicit motion residue falls back to the cursor word | pardes-specific |
 | `Tab` (normal) | acme **execute** chord | pardes-specific, keep; explicit-selection rule as Enter | pardes-specific |
 | `:` (normal, body) | focuses the pane's OWN tag as a one-line editor in **normal** mode, parked at the first EDITABLE column: motions (`w` `b` `e` `W` `B` `E`, `0` `$` `^`, arrows, `Home`/`End`) walk the whole rendered tag, `y` yanks the selection, `Enter`/`Tab` look/execute it (else the file-ish word under the cursor), `i`/`a`/`I`/`A` enter insert, `Esc` hands the body back. `h`/`j`/`k`/`l` are NOT motion here — a tagline is a place in the LAYOUT, so they run the same `Left`/`Down`/`Up`/`Right` builtins and land on the neighbouring pane's TAGLINE, still in normal mode (nothing that way = stay put, EXCEPT `k` off the topmost tagline — see the next row); the arrows keep the in-tag motion | helix `:` is command mode (section C); pardes' commands are acme words that live in the tag. `tag_col`/`tag_anchor` are columns of the RENDERED tag (prefix ++ tail) — one coordinate space, so the live mode+path prefix is selectable, yankable and executable, while every edit op (typing, `Backspace`, `i`/`a`/`I`/`A`) measures from the first editable column and is inert inside it | pardes-specific |
 | `k` (tag normal, topmost tagline) | focuses the column tag, then another `k` reaches the workspace tag at row 0 (`Newcol Joincol Find Grep Help Changelog Tutor Dump NextColor Debug Kill`, plus `Restore <path>` once a dump exists). With `ColumnTags` disabled it goes directly to the workspace. `j` walks back down. Header arrows and `h`/`l` move by grapheme; word motions and `0`/`$`/`^` work too. In normal mode `Enter`/`Tab` executes; `i`/`a`/`I`/`A` enter editing, where Enter is Look and Tab is Exec. Left-click, drag selection, typing, and paste edit either header; Esc leaves | Column commands target that column's active pane, or its first pane when coming from elsewhere. Workspace and column text are independently editable and persist in dumps. See [editable tags](tags.md) | pardes-specific |
-| `Ctrl-w` + `h/j/k/l`/arrows | directional pane focus prefix — normal/tty modes only | pardes' own window handling (helix window mode skipped, section C). Runs the SAME `Left`/`Down`/`Up`/`Right` builtins `SPC w h/j/k/l` runs; kept alongside the leader because a pane in raw **tty** mode never sees `SPC` (the shell owns it), so this is the only keyboard way out of one. Insert mode owns `Ctrl-w` = delete-word-back, so a tag being TYPED into swallows it; from a tag in normal mode (`:`) it moves focus to the neighbour's BODY, while the bare letters `h/j/k/l` there move to its TAGLINE (next row) | pardes-specific |
-| `Alt-n` | new terminal below (any mode) | shadows helix `Alt-n` TS sibling-select — skipped anyway (tree-sitter) | pardes-specific |
-| `Alt-c` | move active terminal to a fresh column (any mode) | helix `Alt-c` is change-noyank; the pardes window op wins (do-not-touch contract). `Alt-d` + `i` covers the behavior | waived (`alt-c-window-op`) |
+| `Ctrl-w` + `h/j/k/l`/arrows | directional pane focus prefix — editor normal mode only | pardes' own window handling (helix window mode skipped, section C). Runs the SAME `Left`/`Down`/`Up`/`Right` builtins `SPC w h/j/k/l` runs; Raw **tty** mode forwards Ctrl-w to the child. Insert mode owns `Ctrl-w` = delete-word-back, so a tag being TYPED into swallows it; from a tag in normal mode (`:`) it moves focus to the neighbour's BODY, while the bare letters `h/j/k/l` there move to its TAGLINE (next row) | pardes-specific |
+| `Alt-n` | new terminal below (outside raw tty) | shadows helix `Alt-n` TS sibling-select — skipped anyway (tree-sitter) | pardes-specific |
+| `Alt-c` | move active terminal to a fresh column (outside raw tty) | helix `Alt-c` is change-noyank; the pardes window op wins (do-not-touch contract). `Alt-d` + `i` covers the behavior | waived (`alt-c-window-op`) |
 | `Space` (normal, body) | starts the pardes LEADER: a key path runs the same builtin words used by tags and the topbar. The main groups are `f` files, `h` docs, `c` columns, `t` toggles/effects, `a` panel animations, `s` session, `j` jumps, `l` language, and `w` directional focus; `SPC ?` lists every path and `<prefix> ?` lists one group in `+Help`. The pending path appears on the active pane's transient body/message row. Esc or an unmapped key abandons it. Paths, Help rows, and dispatch are all generated from the builtin registry at comptime; the leader applies only to a BODY in normal mode because tags and tty programs own their input | pardes-specific; helix spends Space on pickers/LSP (section C), while pardes uses acme-style executable words |
 | `SPC y` `SPC Y` `SPC p` `SPC P` `SPC R` | helix's clipboard menu on helix's own letters: yank the selection to the system clipboard (`ClipYank`) or the PRIMARY selection alone (`ClipYankMain`), paste the system clipboard after (`ClipPaste`) / before (`ClipPasteBefore`) the selection, replace the selection with it (`ClipReplace`) | the ONLY five words in pardes that touch the desktop's clipboard — `y`/`d`/`c`/`p`/`P`/`R` and the acme cut/paste chords are the internal register alone. Builtins rather than bare chords because a leader path names a builtin: they land in Help's index and are executable words like every other verb. One divergence: pardes keeps a single register VALUE where helix keeps one per range, so `SPC y` at N cursors joins them with newlines (`Pardes.setYank`, the divergence `msel-yank-paste` already waives). On a tty the write is OSC 52 out and the READ is OSC 52 back, which many terminals refuse or gate — so `SPC y` works there and `SPC p` can be a no-op | out of corpus |
 | a paste from the OUTER terminal | one `Event.paste`, spliced in at the cursor | the tty shell enables bracketed paste and coalesces `paste_start`..`paste_end` into a single event; before that the bytes arrived as individual key presses and normal mode RAN them, which is how a pasted `d` deleted a line. The bytes deliberately never enter the yank register — clipboard and default register are separate stores in both directions | pardes-specific |
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ language-backend queries, and the shell pipe.
 | `gd` `gD` `gy` `gi` `gr` | LSP definition / declaration / type-definition / implementation / references. ONE answer jumps straight there; several fill `+Search`, where n/N walk and Enter opens | in-process ZLS (`src/lsp/lsp_zls.zig`), `.zig` only — on a file the backend does not speak these do nothing at all, with no error row. Ctrl+left-click is the mouse spelling of `gd` | out of corpus |
 | `]d` `[d` / `]D` `[D` | step the diagnostics list / go to its last or first; if no list is up, asking the backend for one is part of the press | | out of corpus |
 | `=` | `format_selections` — writes a `- old` / `+ new` diff into `+Lsp` | deliberate divergence: the seam returns ROWS, not edits, so this SHOWS the formatting instead of applying it. Not in the corpus, so there is no waiver to name — the query leaves the core as an effect the headless harness has no shell to perform | out of corpus |
-| `Ctrl-o` / `Ctrl-i` | jumplist back / forward — the `Back` / `Forward` builtins, also on `SPC j o` / `SPC j i`, with `SPC j l` rendering the stack as a buffer | helix binds both keys (`jump_backward` / `jump_forward`) but to a POSITION jumplist; pardes' stack is over panes and focus, so the keys agree and the semantics do not. `Ctrl-i` and Tab are the same byte under the legacy encoding; there Tab keeps meaning execute, and the pair only separates where the host speaks the kitty keyboard protocol | pardes-specific |
+| `Ctrl-o` / `Ctrl-i` | jumplist back / forward; raw tty forwards both to the child — the `Back` / `Forward` builtins, also on `SPC j o` / `SPC j i`, with `SPC j l` rendering the stack as a buffer | helix binds both keys (`jump_backward` / `jump_forward`) but to a POSITION jumplist; pardes' stack is over panes and focus, so the keys agree and the semantics do not. `Ctrl-i` and Tab are the same byte under the legacy encoding; there Tab keeps meaning execute, and the pair only separates where the host speaks the kitty keyboard protocol | pardes-specific |
 | `\|` | pipe every selection through `/bin/sh -c`: its bytes in on stdin, its stdout replacing them, one undo across all cursors | helix's own key and meaning; the command is typed into the pane's tag after a bare `\|` marker rather than into a popup | out of corpus |
 | `A-\|` | the same, and the output is DISCARDED — the text is not touched at all | helix `shell_pipe_to`. For a command run for its effect. Marker `\|-` | out of corpus |
 | `!` | run with NO stdin, insert the output BEFORE each selection | helix `shell_insert_output`. Runs ONCE and every cursor gets that one answer, as helix does — ten cursors and `date` give ten identical stamps. Marker `!` | out of corpus |
@@ -425,3 +425,7 @@ completion off, scrolloff pinned to pardes' 3, no-language indent style
 pinned to Spaces(4), smart-tab off, and the buffer-setup transaction
 committed as its own undo revision. Build:
 `cargo build --release -p helix-term --features helix-term/integration --bin hx-harness`.
+
+Raw TTY input keeps Ctrl-b for `Togglettymode` and unmodified Escape at a detected shell
+prompt for `Last`. Other Ctrl/Alt chords, modified Escape, and clipboard shortcut
+keys go to the child. Use the `Togglettymode` tag to leave raw input in place.