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glslc is the one build input that wants a tool a stock machine does not have,
and it is also the input that changes least often: eight GLSL files that have
outlived several rewrites of everything around them. Asking every machine that
wants to run the SDL shell for shaderc is the wrong trade.
The SPIR-V is now COMMITTED, under shaders/prebuilt/, and -Dprebuilt-shaders
embeds that copy instead of shelling out. The default stays the honest one --
compile the shaders that are actually in the tree -- because the flag trades a
dependency for a freshness problem: with it on, the .glsl sources are not build
inputs at all, so editing one changes nothing.
`zig build shaders` is the other half, and it is deliberately independent of
-Dplatform: it recompiles every shader and writes the result back into the
tracked directory, so whoever changes a shader refreshes the cache on a machine
that has the compiler and commits the diff. `jj diff shaders/prebuilt` after it
is the freshness check -- empty means the cache was already current.
The shader list is also spelled once now (gui_shaders): the eight embeds, the
eight glslc runs and the refresh step all read it, so adding a shader is a name
there plus the @embedFile in gui.zig, not three edits in two places.
Verified: -Dplatform=gui -Dprebuilt-shaders builds with glslc absent from PATH,
and image-harness passes on that binary -- real SDL GPU pipelines built from the
committed SPIR-V, 512 source pixels read back. The default gui build still runs
the eight glslc steps; tty runs none. The committed bytes are identical to a
fresh glslc run, and `zig build shaders` is idempotent.
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The documentation had gone stale in the ordinary way -- claims that were true
when they were written and that nothing since had been obliged to re-read.
Some of them were load-bearing.
THE TUTOR. It still said there is no multi-cursor, that NextColor cycles three
themes, and that its practice blocks "are also run as unit tests (generated
from this file by tutor_gen)" -- a tool that appears nowhere in the tree, and
nothing anywhere parses a `# keys:` block. Left alone, that claim is what
makes the next wrong block survive.
Three of those blocks WERE wrong, and all three for one reason: since the
helix motion model landed, w/e/f/t SELECT the range they cross, so `i` after
one inserts at the SELECTION'S START. `w i Z esc` on "foo bar" gives
"Zfoo bar", not the "foo Zbar" the file promised. They were written against a
vim reading of the same keys. Every block in the file has now been run through
`zig build hxdiff` against the real core and matches byte for byte, and the
trap itself is written down in 3.3 rather than left to be rediscovered.
The tutor gains a PART 4 for everything added since it was written -- PDF
panes, the in-process ZLS backend, themes and fonts, the startup file -- and
PART 3 gains counts (and which keys ignore one), f/F/t/T, the whole g table
(bare `G` is a no-op; `ge` is the START of the last line), multiple cursors
and the s/S regex pair, `m`, `]`/`[`, `|`, insert mode, and all fifty leader
paths.
THE REST. design.typ's line table claimed 7,626 lines against a real 38,048,
and its rows did not sum to its own total; its Event/Effect boundary contract
-- the part a shell author writes against -- named four variants that do not
exist and omitted fourteen that do. lsp.md's probe count. config.md's
theme-name rules, which as written could not reach a zed theme at all.
helix-keys.md's Skipped section, holding five families that have since landed.
macos.md's menu bar, undocumented, along with sixteen other claims. web.md on
what the browser build can actually do.
SOURCE COMMENTS that had rotted alongside them: `tag_normal` is a space, not
the `•` its own comment describes; Wrap is ON by default, not off; a FontSel
row is SELECTED by n and RUN by Tab, not run by n; the SPC paths in lsp.zig
lost their `l` group prefix when the language group moved; and the
differential suites are 481 and 561 cases, not 360 and 440.
TWO THINGS FOUND BY DOCUMENTING THEM, both left standing and written down
rather than papered over. Typing `[^\n]` at an s/S prompt panics: the live
preview compiles every prefix, and `[^\` indexes an empty slice in mvzr's
parseCharSet. Both the tutor and a waiver recommended that pattern as the
workaround for `.` matching a newline; they now say what it costs and what
would make it sayable. And `Exec` is a builtin, so an `Exec` line in the
startup config types that command into a shell before the first frame -- the
tutor said nothing in that file is ever sent to one.
Nine adversarial reviews over two rounds, each with the hxdiff harness to
execute what it doubted. The second round exists because the first round's
fixes needed checking too, and it caught three regressions of my own -- one of
them a probe count I had "corrected" away from the truth.
Verified: unit-test, snap 87/87, hxdiff 481/0, hxparity 561/0, mupdf-check.
docs/design.pdf regenerated. The tutor's first seventeen lines are byte-
identical, which is what tutor.golden pins.
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Three changes that all turned out to be the same shape -- a feature that
worked in one direction, or for one pane kind, and quietly did not in the
others.
CLIPBOARD. Every register write emitted set_clipboard, so deleting one
character threw away whatever the desktop was holding; multi-cursor yank took
the join's early return and emitted nothing at all, so the same key reached
the clipboard on one cursor and not on two. Nothing could READ the clipboard:
the SDL shell had no SDL_GetClipboardText anywhere in it, and the tty shell
never asked for OSC 52, so `p` from another application was dead in both.
Now it is helix's split. y/d/c/p/P/R and the acme chords are the DEFAULT
REGISTER and nothing else; the system clipboard is five words on helix's own
letters -- SPC y, SPC Y, SPC p, SPC P, SPC R -- spelled as builtins so they
land in Help and are executable like every other verb. The one exception is
the tag `y` chord, which still mirrors out because a tag is always insert, so
SPC cannot be pressed there, and copying the path out is the whole point of
the chord.
Reading is a new read_clipboard effect answered by an ordinary Event.paste, so
the round trip is honest about being one: SDL and NSPasteboard answer inside
the same drain, the browser answers a promise, and a terminal answers over
OSC 52 or -- far more often -- refuses. A refused read is a paste that does
not happen, and the request dies at the next keystroke rather than landing
minutes late in whatever pane is focused by then.
The tty shell also enables BRACKETED PASTE now and coalesces
paste_start..paste_end into one event. Before this a paste arrived as a flood
of individual key presses: plausible in insert mode, and in normal mode every
pasted character ran as a command.
n/N. They stepped the armed results buffer and immediately Looked each row, so
you could not walk past a hit without opening it. They are a MOTION now:
select the next look-able text, open nothing, and let Enter decide. What they
step is the largest whitespace-delimited run look.resolve can act on
(look.lookableSpan, wrapper punctuation peeled), over a RING of panes -- every
pane that has performed a look, most recent first, then the output buffers
that have not, newest first, and only if both are empty the pane in front of
you. N is the exact inverse of n, computed rather than remembered: both
directions ask the same question about the same spans and compare against the
column the walk parks on, so x presses one way and x back land exactly where
you started, pane boundaries and the ring's seam included.
A ring rather than a list with two ends because a shell's cursor sits at the
prompt, below everything it has printed, so a walk that could not come round
would have nowhere to go on the very first press -- which is the case n/N were
written for.
One motion everywhere, no pane-kind or buffer-kind special case. The only
thing a buffer may change is the GRAIN of what a step selects, and it does it
with one flag rather than a branch: output_pane.Traits.commands (renamed from
`executes`, which named one reader's behaviour rather than the fact) makes a
row select WHOLE, because a ThemeSel line is a word to run and has no path
inside it to pick out. `]d`/`[d` are not n/N -- they are helix's diagnostic
motions, their job is to ARRIVE, and they still reach searchStep.
THE TTY PROMPT. Leaving raw tty blanked the prompt row, and the command you
had typed at that prompt shares the row, so it went too -- a shell out of tty
read as output only. OSC 133 marks the row CELL by cell, so the two are
separable: config.tty_blank = .prompt cuts the prompt's own columns and leaves
the command, left-hugged at column 0 in line with the output under it rather
than in a bay of blanks. .prompt_and_input is the old behaviour, kept.
Because the row is now something you can put a cursor in, enterTty adds the
hidden prompt width back before asking ghostty to walk the shell's own cursor
to it -- the modal column on a cut row is short by exactly that much.
Verified: unit-test 186/186 (nine new), snap 87/87 (new ttyprompt.snap),
hxdiff 481 and hxparity 561 with 0 mismatches, tty and gui both build. And
against the real binaries rather than the harness: in a pty, SPC y emits OSC
52 carrying exactly the selection while plain y emits nothing, SPC p issues
the read and pastes the reply, and a bracketed paste of "dd..." inserts text
instead of deleting two lines. In a real SDL window, SPC y then SPC p round
trips through the system clipboard while the default register holds different
text. Setting tty_blank back to .prompt_and_input reproduces all 86 old
goldens byte for byte.
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The AppKit shell now draws what the core renders, follows the theme without a
relaunch, and builds into something you can hand to someone.
- Pixel attachments. Surface.images was dropped on the floor here, so a PDF
pane showed nothing at all: native_images is now set, pardes_image_s carries
the geometry the core already clipped, and PardesView keeps one CGImage per
(serial, page, revision) so scrolling costs a draw and not a decode. Image
panes get real pixels instead of the petscii fallback.
- Themes take hold live. pardes_tick never advanced the chrome animation, so
every tagline kept the previous theme's colours until the next launch and
the 16 ms re-pump spun for the rest of the session. pardes_theme_bg retires
the hand-agreed #121212 and drives the window background and the titlebar
appearance; a theme with no background of its own now gets a transparent
window over an NSVisualEffectView.
- The cell snaps to whole DEVICE pixels rather than whole points. Monaco
advances 8.4014pt at 14, so ceiling to 9 spaced every column 7.1% wider than
the face was drawn for.
- The dial is one notch per 10 degrees instead of 20, and a release keeps
turning in proportion to how hard it was thrown -- ramping up from zero at
the floor, so a slow twist coasts not a little but not at all.
- A file dropped on the grid is a click plus Look, so it opens beside the pane
it was dropped on. No drop concept was added to the core.
- The titlebar follows the focused pane: proxy icon, filename, and the dirty
dot. File.saved_revision is the watermark that last one needed.
- Config (SPC f c) prints the resolved startup config path.
- build.zig assembles, signs and packages the bundle itself; build-app.sh is
gone. -Dmacos-identity= takes a Developer ID, macos-dmg makes the image, and
the icon is Glenda.
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Esc ran Toggleterm, which hopped between the newest DOC and the newest
TERMINAL. That distinction never earned its keep. It made Esc unpredictable —
which of three panes you landed on depended on their kinds, not on where you
had been — and it could not alternate between two files at all, which is the
case you hit most. Editing two files, Esc did nothing.
The replacement already existed. Last (SPC j j) is "the pane you were in
before this one, whichever it was": it walks the jump stack for the newest
entry naming a different pane and restores its line and column. So Esc, and
Shift-Esc in tty, now run Last, and Toggleterm is deleted rather than renamed
— a third implementation of "go to the other pane" was the thing to avoid.
SPC w t goes with it; the w group is the four directional moves, and the jump
group already had SPC j j.
Held down, Esc alternates. Two files, a file and its shell, a file and a
+Search — all the same, because Last has no notion of kind to get wrong.
This depends on the swap in the same series: Last reads the stack backwards,
and until hopping stopped appending, the pane you came from could fall off it.
windownav.snap needed only its keys and prose changed — its golden did not
move at all, which is the useful evidence here: for the one scenario the old
builtin handled well, Last produces an identical focus sequence.
Coverage for what it did not handle is new: a unit test opens a second FILE by
looking its name and asserts Esc alternates between two panes of the SAME
kind, which is the case that used to be a no-op.
Docs follow: tutor.txt, docs/helix-keys.md, docs/design.typ, and the builtin
index goldens, which are now one row shorter.
75/75 snapshots, both unit suites, and the macOS ABI build all pass.
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file:LINE:COL-ENDLINE:ENDCOL, with the two short forms people actually type
reading naturally: file:412:9-21 on one line, file:412-418 whole ones. Ends are
inclusive. A path feature, not a search feature — a ranged path typed in a tag
or middle-clicked out of a shell's output selects just the same; search is only
its first consumer.
The dash is the fussy part. `-` was already a file char, so a ranged word
survives click expansion whole, but a range needs a number on BOTH sides or
my-file:10, build-2 and 2026-07-30 would stop being paths. Table-driven test in
look.zig for exactly that.
Selecting goes through the cellRange/setPaneRange pair the multi-cursor work
left, and hxOff clamps both ends, so a stale range selects what still exists
rather than crashing or reaching past EOF — pinned with an 8:6-400:9 range in a
nine-line file.
Producers: / search, Grep, and five LSP sites through a new spanRow — goto,
references, rename tokens and both symbol lists were throwing away real
protocol ranges at path:line:col. Left alone deliberately: Find rows are bare
paths with nothing to span, a jump is a spot not a span, and the diagnostic and
format paths only ever have a point, where half a range would be worse than
none.
One knock-on worth knowing: n now leaves an EXPLICIT selection, so a topbar
execute chords it. grep.snap's no-match step was silently becoming
`Grep TARGET`; it runs from the leader path now, which never chords, and the
dedicated chord steps stayed where they were.
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The primary cursor stays exactly where it was — cur_row/cur_col plus vsel — and
sels[] holds helix's OTHER ranges. That split is why nothing moved at one
cursor: with nsel == 0 not one line of the existing motion, operator, render or
mouse code takes a different branch, which is what protects 800 differential
cases and 67 goldens.
paneRanges/setPaneRanges are the whole list; setPaneRanges IS helix's
Selection::new (min width 1, sorted, overlaps merged, primary follows its range
through a merge). An ordinary key runs the single-selection handler once per
range, visited last-first so an edit never disturbs a range still waiting, and
each finished pass is remembered as a distance from the END of the text, which
an earlier edit cannot move — helix's change mapping without a change map.
pushUndo fires once per keystroke, yanks accumulate, and a builtin acts from
the primary and stops the replay, which also closes the use-after-free window
if it frees the pane.
s and S reuse the / prompt wholesale rather than growing a second one: the
pattern is typed into the tag tail, and every keystroke re-runs the match from
the selection the prompt opened on, so the preview is live and Esc is just the
empty pattern. mvzr does runtime patterns — a bytecode VM in a fixed-size
struct with no allocator — with 64 ops and 8 char classes per pattern, no
case-insensitive flag (helix's smart case is done by folding a scratch copy),
no captures, no multi-line anchors. The last two are the two waivers.
Ctrl-c is a whole-list key and not a per-cursor replay, because helix decides
comment-vs-uncomment ONCE for the whole selection; replaying it would take that
decision n times. Comment tokens are a table in config.zig keyed on the same
extension syntax.zig picks grammars by.
Found and fixed a pre-existing single-cursor bug on the way: la<bs><esc> left
the cursor one cell before where the append began. helix's restore_cursor can
never walk past the origin; ours backed up unconditionally. hxdiff was green
before AND after — the old one-selection contract could not see it.
hxdiff 360 -> 481 cases, hxparity 440 -> 561, all goldens from real helix; the
harness contract now reports every range and its primary, omitted when there is
one, so 359 of the 360 old goldens are byte-identical. The one that moved is
o-count: helix's 2o really does leave two cursors and could not say so before.
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The pad faithfully turns a two-finger scroll's sideways drift into wheel_left
and wheel_right, so a plain scroll slid the view sideways underneath you. Every
vertical tick now re-arms a guard and every horizontal tick spends one instead
of scrolling, so horizontal has to EARN its way back by landing three ticks in
a row with no vertical among them.
Clock-free on purpose: the core is a state machine with no timestamp on a mouse
event, and faking one by counting renders would be worse than the counter. The
guard is only ever armed BY vertical scrolling, so a horizontal swipe from a
still view still moves on its first tick — only horizontal that interrupts
vertical has anything to prove.
A tilt wheel gets the same treatment, where recent-vertical is a much weaker
signal of accident. Deliberate: the only honest fix is a per-device flag out of
the shell, and that layer costs more than the three clicks it would save.
The rule is one pure function next to the number it reads, with an inline test
written to hold for any tuning of that number. unit-test grew a fourth binary
over the core module hxdiff already links. New golden wheeldrift; none moved.
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Each theme is a .zig file of pure data and nothing enumerates them by hand —
fold() walks the container's declarations, so a theme is a file and that is the
whole registration. Field by field rather than a wholesale coercion, which
makes a missing field a compile error that names it.
tools/gen_themes.zig reads helix .toml and zed .json out of vendor/themes and
emits one .zig each; build.zig reads that directory, so adding a theme is
dropping a file in. Output goes to the build cache rather than the tree, so zig
owns the freshness check and a deleted source cannot leave a stale theme
behind. Vendored, not read from the genizah: the build stays offline. A source
it cannot map is a hard error naming the file and the key, never a silently
black-on-black theme.
ThemeSel is the clever half. Traits gained an `executes` column, so n/N over
that buffer hands the whole line to Exec instead of the leading word to Look —
both arms the ordinary builtin, so a stepped row does exactly what the matching
mouse button on it would. Stepping the list previews each theme live. The trait
is a pane property, not an output-pane branch, so any pane whose lines are
commands can opt in.
Goldens: leader gains SPC t t; theme's fourth NextColor no longer wraps to
helix because the ring is fifteen long. New: themesel.
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One container, not two: focus_hist (a stack of pane ids rebuilt every sync) is
now jumps[] + a current pointer, and the +Jumps buffer is a RENDERING of that
array — nothing copies it, nothing shadows it. prevFocus, Toggleterm, Look's
directory order, Back/Forward, Last and Jumplist all walk the one list.
A pane id is reused, so a location that only remembered an id would retarget
after a respawn: panes now carry a monotonic serial and an entry whose slot
holds a different serial is dead. trackJump compacts those out and fixes the
pointer in the same pass.
The push rule lives in ONE place and says: a location is worth remembering
when you cannot see it any more — a different pane, or more than a bodyful of
rows away in the same one. So hjkl never grows the list and 100G, a search hit
and a goto-definition do.
Ctrl-o/Ctrl-i walk it, SPC j j toggles the last two, SPC j l lists them.
Ctrl-i IS Tab on a legacy host, where the binding simply never fires and
Tab-executes is untouched; kitty reports them apart. SPC j o/i work anywhere.
Two goldens moved, both the SPC ? Help listing gaining four rows.
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Their only special feature is now the keys they are assigned. `Look main.zig`
typed in a tag is the same look a right click is; config.look_cmd/exec_cmd
point the two buttons and Enter/Tab at them, so retargeting Enter to Grep is
one line. actOnSelection — a hand-written cascade with the builtin dispatch
nested inside it — is gone, and the `button` parameter it threaded through five
KEYBOARD call sites went with it.
New syntax, spelled once in config.zig: @`ls -la` names a command to run
rather than a file to open. Word expansion takes the quoted run whole, the way
acme does for its own </|/> words, so a click inside one does not hand Look the
fragment `ls`.
And it nests: @`Look .` unwraps, re-enters the dispatcher, and looks at the
directory. Guarded at depth 8, which is unreachable today (every re-entry
strips a word or a delimiter pair, so the string strictly shrinks) and exists
for a future syntax that does not shrink.
leader_path is now optional: a builtin may have no SPC path when its shortcut
is a key and a mouse button. New golden cmdword; the other 59 unmoved.
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An output buffer was a file pane with a flag, and everything special about it
was re-derived from outside by asking the wrong question: the buffer NAME
("+Search", "+Help"), a parallel search_kind field, and f.output predicates
sprinkled through kind-agnostic code.
Now it carries its Origin — the Builtin, or the lsp.Kind for the five gotos
helix binds as motions rather than words — plus that command's argument, and
one Traits table answers every question the scattered code used to ask: what
it is called, whether n/N steps it, whether it is a doc for layout, whether
Esc dismisses it, whether it saves. The name is derived FROM the command
instead of being the thing that identifies it.
Adding a kind of output pane is adding a row. No golden moved.
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Retargeting a key, a mouse chord or a spelling is now an edit to src/config.zig
and nothing else. Three parts in reading order: pardes's own bindings (where a
reader lands), the Look/Exec syntax, then the helix keymap under a banner
saying hxdiff/hxparity are differential suites against real helix, so a key
moved there is a divergence and not a tweak.
The bindings are data a comptime loop can walk, because the builtin index is
going to walk them.
Duplication this cut: is/isC/isA became one hit(key, chords) over ~132 call
sites, and a binding being a LIST collapses the letter-or-arrow chains;
swap_enter_tab is gone, replaced by look_key/exec_key that can point anywhere;
the four focus builtins' h/j/k/l lived hardcoded in two places and is now one
table.
No golden moved.
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