1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/macos.zig b/src/macos.zig
index 4c7eb97f..a9c9d0f3 100644
--- a/src/macos.zig
+++ b/src/macos.zig
@@ -41,6 +41,19 @@ const lsp_host = @import("lsp_host.zig"); // the shared snapshot + worker body
 const host_api = @import("host.zig"); // LspRequest and the vtable's own types
 const tracy = @import("tracy.zig"); // no-op unless -Dtracy names a checkout
 const selection_pipe = @import("selection_pipe.zig"); // Job, runJob and Tasks
+const crash = @import("crash.zig");
+
+/// This file is the ROOT of the macOS build (build.zig: the AppKit shell is a
+/// library whose host owns main()), so `std.builtin.panic` resolves here and
+/// not in src/main.zig — a handler written only there would never run in the
+/// app, which is the shell with the least useful stderr of the four. No
+/// terminal to restore either, which is the rest of what main.zig's does.
+pub const panic = std.debug.FullPanic(struct {
+    fn call(msg: []const u8, ret_addr: ?usize) noreturn {
+        crash.record(msg, ret_addr);
+        std.debug.defaultPanic(msg, ret_addr);
+    }
+}.call);
 
 extern "c" fn setenv(name: [*:0]const u8, value: [*:0]const u8, overwrite: c_int) c_int;
 
@@ -679,6 +692,10 @@ fn initCore(runtime: ?*const Runtime, cols_arg: u16, rows_arg: u16) !void {
         opts.startup_config = found.bytes;
         opts.startup_config_path = found.path;
         opts.config_dir = found.dir;
+        // This host has no terminal at all, so the panic trace stderr gets goes
+        // to a Console.app nobody has open. `panic` above writes it beside the
+        // init file too, and this is where it learns the directory.
+        if (found.dir) |d| crash.setDir(d);
     }
 
     pardes.image.start(io, allocs.image);