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* Kill asks the host to signal at once and says when a shell has no job to signalGabriel Schneider41 hours
| | | | | | | | | | | Kill queued a signal effect for later, so the job it saw running by its marks could have ended, and another started, before the signal went; and with job control off the job shares the shell's process group, so the host skipped it and Kill reported nothing. Kill now calls the host's kill_job while it holds the turn, and when the only job is the shell's own group says 'Kill: no job to signal', which also fails a write of Kill to ctl. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* A closed terminal's shell is reaped on tty and macOS, killed if it ignores ↵Gabriel Schneider41 hours
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the hangup tty and macOS hung the pty up and called waitpid once without waiting, so a shell still exiting, or one that ignores SIGHUP, stayed a zombie or ran on with nobody reading it; tty also never reaped a shell that exited by itself, and its spawn into an occupied slot closed the old pty without ending the shell. host_io's retireShell says hangup, waits 100 ms on a thread (macOS has no host timer to poll from), then kills and reaps. The gui's own retired list, when full, left the slot holding the old shell and refused the next spawn into that pane; it now hands that shell to retireShell instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Exit quits and Kill stops commands, as in acmeGabriel Schneider41 hours
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kill quit the editor, which in acme is Exit; acme's Kill stops the commands it started. Exit now quits as acme's does (exec.c, rowclean): it refuses once, naming each pane with unsaved text, and quits when asked again with nothing edited since (a small scratch is not asked about). Kill, bare or with names, stops the commands pardes typed into a terminal (an exec, a middle click, a pty/run) while their shell's marks say they run, by SIGTERM to the terminal's foreground job, never to the shell (acme posts the kill note, which terminates). Both are session builtins; the topbar's Kill becomes Exit, same width, and every golden's topbar row changed by exactly that word (checked line by line); the builtins script scrolls one more row for the index's new line. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* A terminal pane that closes takes its shell and pty with it, in every front endGabriel Schneider41 hours
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The detached server closed a pane's pty only when the shell was respawned, hit EOF or the session shut down, so rmdir, Del or Delcol on a terminal left its shell running with nobody to read it; the tty front end and macOS did the same. Retiring a terminal pane now emits a close_pty effect, which each host that runs shells answers by hanging the pty up and ending the shell (the detached server's and the GUI's existing retire-and-reap path, and a close plus SIGHUP in the tty and macOS shells). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Give a pane's body its own Text holding the cursor, selections, mode and undoGabriel Schneider41 hours
| | | | | | | | | | | acme keeps what edits a text in its Text (dat.h:171-190) and the window holds a body and a tag of that type. The cursor, the selections, the modal state and the edit-buffer undo move off Pane into Text.zig, Pane holds them as its body, and the edit and normal-mode operations take the Text they edit. Nothing changes in behaviour; this is the step that lets the tag become a second Text. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Point docs and comments at the files code moved toGabriel Schneider41 hours
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation only, no code change: README's reading order and layout, docs/design.typ's paragraph on where pane kinds and editor parts live, docs/helix-keys.md's code map (normalInput and the executors now in normal.zig and edit.zig, insertTab in edit.zig), docs/open-questions.md (execute and ttyForDir in exec.zig), and the comments that named pardes.zig for fold, Cell, takesCommandLine and runBuiltin (tools/gen_themes.zig, themes/helix.zig, detached/wire.zig, host_io.zig, lsp_zls.zig). docs/design.pdf is a retained fixture and is not regenerated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Make pty/run and /log streams, and take refused lines back cleanlyGabriel Schneider41 hours
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Review fixes to pty/run and /log: - Both are streams with a per-open cursor. A shell's exec 3<>file shares one offset between write and read, so cat <&3 after echo make >&3 asked for offset 5 and got "0" instead of "exit 0"; log after follow lost its first bytes the same way. - A run is accepted only in pardes's own tagged input phase, so a nested shell's prompt (ssh, a shell with its own integration) is never taken for this shell's. - A line the shell refused is taken back so the next finds the prompt clear: bash's continuation prompt (now tagged k=c) gets Ctrl-C and the answer waits for the fresh prompt; a bash syntax error (no C, but a D) is answered at once; fish's kept line gets Ctrl-U (a Ctrl-C sent while fish redraws is lost). fish's right prompt no longer reads as typed input. - bash marks a command's start from PS0 on bash 4.4+, not a DEBUG trap, so a user's own DEBUG trap (bash-preexec, atuin) survives. bash's own job notices now show as in plain bash (ttyfollow golden). - 32 run slots; a new line on an open starts a fresh answer. Checked live in bash, fish, and fish with a right prompt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Run a line at a terminal's prompt through pty/run and read how it endedGabriel Schneider41 hours
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | /pane/<n>/pty/run takes factotum's rpc shape: write one line on an open, read the answer on that same open. The answer is exit N once the command ended and the shell is back at a prompt; busy at once when a command runs, text is typed at the prompt, or the shell has not drawn its first prompt; error not run when the shell refused the line without running it (fish on a syntax error keeps it on the prompt, so it is taken back with Ctrl-U); error shell gone when the pane closes or its shell is replaced; error no prompt marks for a shell pardes could not instrument. The end comes from the shell's OSC 133 marks. ghostty parses D's exit status and drops it, so the stream now runs through a handler that wraps ghostty's and follows prompt -> input -> running -> done. The marks pardes injects into bash and fish carry aid=pardes and only those count, so fish 4's own marks (which doubled ours), a nested shell's, and a stray 133;D in printed output are ignored. Checked end to end against real bash and fish: false, exit 7, a syntax error, sleep, busy while running, and the pane closing mid-command. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Report each command's exit status in the shell's end-of-command markGabriel Schneider41 hours
| | | | | | | | bash and fish now print OSC 133;D;<status>, which ghostty already parses; the planned /pane/<n>/run file reads it to answer when a command finished and how. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Answer 9P on the connection's task, so a session can open its own treeGabriel Schneider41 hours
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The editor's loop was the only thing that could answer a 9P request, which made the editor's own syscalls through a mount of its own tree -- a Look at /mnt/9p/pardes/<me>/anything under a `9ns --mntgen` view, a Save into it -- requests only the blocked loop could serve. The name-based refusal that followed (ownMountSuffix) and the in-process routing of a mount of oneself (Client.sameSession) were patches over that, and both are gone, with the mailbox that shipped every request to the editor's thread. One rule replaces them, `pardes.turn`: the core is single-threaded, the editor's thread has the turn by default and gives it up in two kinds of gap -- while it waits for input and while a step of it is out in a host syscall -- and a cloud9 connection task takes it in those gaps to answer. `out` counts the steps that are out, from any thread: while one is, the core reads consistently but that step still holds pointers into it, so a request that would change a pane (a write, a truncation, an rmdir) is parked in the engine and retried when the turn is next given up with nothing out, and the editor's own wake waits for the count to reach zero. It is never a write of its own that a step waits on out there -- writes come from a shell performing a save between steps -- so a parked request is never the syscall's own, and making a pane or rendering a screen need not park: every yield sits before its step's mutation, so the layout and the surface are whole under it. A changing request that queued effects is answered once the editor has performed them (`echo Save > exec` returns with the file written, as acme's `put` does), and it settles the way a step does, because without that a /log reader waited for the user's next keystroke. Every host syscall on a user path has to give the turn up, not fs.zig's alone: the first end-to-end run hung in `inotify_add_watch` performing the new pane's watch effect. PDFs and images are read whole at open, so no draw goes out into the host. The core's allocator takes its fixed buffer through the lock-free interface, since a connection task allocates while the editor's thread is out in a syscall that allocates too. A Restore puts the replacement in first and releases every task waiting on the old core. cloud9 (pinned at eb1a104) parks an open, a truncating wstat, a clunk and a remove on `again`, not only reads and writes, and answers a parked job whose fid was clunked without asking the backend. Verified: test/selfmount.py runs the editor under `9ns --mntgen` and Looks at, reads and Saves its own tree through the mount; a unit test pins that a change parks while the editor is out mid-step and lands when it rests, while a read is answered in the window. 9P over the Unix socket against a tty session, same machine, Debug builds: a read of /index 278us -> 61us, a truncating body write 1184us -> 609us, exec Save 718us -> 583us; the gesture benchmark is unchanged (geometric mean 0.997 over 53 cells). Also from the reviews: a notice chip over an image or PDF pane was painted out by the picture drawn after the cells, so pictures give up the rows; in the GUI a tree-sitter context band painted over the chip, so body layers are emitted first; a message is one row of printable text, its 256-byte cut never leaves half a glyph, and one wider than its pane keeps its tail (the file name, the reason) rather than its head. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
* Merge the macOS first-class-host workGabriel Schneider41 hours
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| * Make the macOS shell a first-class hostGabriel Schneider41 hours
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pty children are exec'd with their own TERM/COLORTERM/TERM_PROGRAM instead of inheriting a .app launch's empty environment, and ttyTaken finally answers on darwin — libproc walks the tty's foreground process group — so Escape reaches the child and Exec stops believing every pane sits at its prompt. The occupancy suite runs on both platforms now. The workspace tag row moves into the native menu bar as a Builtins menu. -Dworkspace-tag (default off for -Dplatform=macos, on everywhere else) drives it, and Pardes.topBarHeight replaces the TOPBAR_H constant so the core stops reserving the row. The view pins every variable-font axis to the file's own default (Maple Mono came up Thin otherwise), shapes ligatures, carries per-shape pointer cursors, and draws the look-hover affordance as refracted glass. Tag rows fill edge to edge, with the anchor box painted back on top of that fill and its mode glyph centred on the same square. Theme accents re-saturated across the set. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
* | Plan 9 idiom for the control filesystem, and the regressions a624a56 leftGabriel Schneider41 hours
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 9P tree stops being a command language wearing a filesystem. /new created a pane as a side effect of a *read*; it is now Tcreate in /pane, with Tremove to close, which cloud9's engine has always supported and the editor never declared: tree.zig now says `features = .{ .create = true, .remove = true }`. Eleven pane ctl verbs become files that can be read as well as written -- dot, limit, dirty, mark, scroll, look, exec -- leaving ctl with `get`, the one verb no file would say better. Root /ctl splits into a read-only /status and the /look and /exec files whose write IS the click. stat carries real sizes where it used to answer 0, and qid versions track a pane's revision, so a client can poll for change without re-reading the body. Commit a624a56 moved raw-tty keys to an early-return branch that knew only Ctrl-B and bare Escape, and in the same edit deleted the paste branch below it. That cost Shift-Escape (the unconditional way out of tty mode) and both paste chords: Ctrl-V and Ctrl-Shift-V reached the child as keystrokes, so an agent CLI running in a pane took Ctrl-V for its image-paste binding and answered "No image found in clipboard". Both are restored, with tests. Nested detection was not subtly broken but deleted: 60367d8 removed nested.zig's process-ancestry walk and left "am I inside pardes" derived from PARDES_FORWARD_LOOK, which read "0" both for --nested and for "the listener did not come up". PARDES_PID now answers that question on its own, checked with kill(pid, 0); PARDES_9P and PARDES_PANE answer how to reach it; the flag is gone. The posted-9P registry also self-heals now -- a session that aborts cannot unlink its own socket, so posting sweeps entries whose target refuses a connection, symlinks only and on a definite ECONNREFUSED only. Elsewhere: tty scrolling is sticky-bottom, following new output only from the last row, with typing and entering raw mode snapping back to live; the boot layouts are a Boot enum instead of a chain of ifs, and the bare tty startup (Boot.tty, which main.zig names) opens an empty text pane under the shell while tests keep Boot.tty_shell; builtins announce themselves on the message row under a Verbose setting that is on by default; Config prints each setting the way you would type it back, so WindowOpacity 70 rather than "WindowOpacity: 70%"; LocationsConfig opens its window only when called bare; every tagline puts the word that closes the thing last, and a column now outlives its panes -- closing the last one leaves an empty pane, and only Delcol, newly on the column tagline, takes the column away. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
* Add Linux Tty9p mounted terminals and forward raw TTY keysGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* Refactor panes and filesystem; replace FUSE with 9PGabriel Schneider2026-09-07
| | | | | | Consolidate pane, layout, memory and host code. Serve 9P by default over Unix sockets, with runtime mounts and optional TCP/QUIC transports. Remove FUSE and obsolete proof-of-concept examples. Fix highlighting and terminal-history performance, expand differential and stress-test infrastructure, sort navigation results while preserving the next occurrence, add syntax-colored Braille minimaps, remove SPC-k, and document 9P interaction as a repository skill.
* errors: a save that could not happen, and two panics on an ordinary clickGabriel Schneider2026-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A review of what this program does when the environment says no. The finding that reframes it: there were almost NO panics on ordinary paths — the rule already held — but there was a great deal of silence, and one case worse than any panic. SILENT DATA LOSS ON SAVE. `saveFile` marked the pane saved the moment it QUEUED the effect, before any host had tried; `host_io.writeFd` returned void, so a short or failed write was indistinguishable from a complete one; and `writeFileBytes` returned true regardless. A save to a read-only file, or into a directory removed under the pane, therefore cleared the tag's ` *` and posted nothing — and `Del` makes no dirty check, so the next click threw the edits away with the screen saying they were safe. On a full disk it was worse: the file is already `O_TRUNC`'d when `write` fails, so the message row said `saved` over a file that had just been emptied. Now: `writeFd` reports, `writeFileBytes` returns WHY (`PermissionDenied`, `NoSpaceLeft`, `ReadOnlyFilesystem`, …) including a failed `close`, which is where write-back filesystems report at all; the core marks the pane saved around `perform` rather than at emit, which is also where the bytes are read; and a host that could not write calls `Pardes.saveFailed`, which puts the reason on the message row and takes the clean mark back. That is a CALL and not a return value because host.zig enforces, at comptime, that a `push_` method reaching every host in a fan-out cannot have one answer — the first attempt at this changed the signature and the compiler was right to refuse it. TWO PANICS ON AN ORDINARY KEYSTROKE, in look.zig's number scans. `v = v * 10 + d` over caller-supplied digits, reached from `parsePathLine` and the `@pN` scan — which every Look, every right-click and every n/N motion runs on whatever word is under the pointer. A hash in a log, a CSV column, any output shaped `foo:99999999999999999999`, and the editor died with "integer overflow". Both saturate now, the same way acmefs.zig's address parser already did; a saturated line is refused by `file_pane.open`'s `line <= total` and a saturated pane id by `focusPaneLine`'s `id < MAX_PANES`, so nothing addressable changes. A BOOT FILE THAT WILL NOT OPEN joins the missing-name case in the `+Errors` pane instead of taking the launch down: `pardes /root` resolves as a `.file`, could not be read, and left `error: PermissionDenied` and a return trace. `look.readFile` now says which errno it was, so the pane can say "permission denied" rather than a word from the source code. The tag-marker test drained no effects and passed anyway, which is exactly the defect; it drains now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Q4RATpafkwahrovHQLKRf
* An edited row keeps its colours, four copies of forkShell become one, and ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-27
Esc stops recentring ## A terminal row's ANSI colours survive being edited The loudest colour bug this editor had: one keystroke anywhere in a coloured shell row turned EVERY column of it grey. `EditAnchors` anchored a buffer line only when it was BYTE-IDENTICAL to the shell row it stood over, so a single differing byte dropped the whole row's colour projection. Worst shape is invisible: append past the pane's right edge, where the text is clipped, and the row looks the same and only its colour goes. Anchoring is byte-level now. An edit leaves the row's own bytes at both ends, and being the same bytes they keep the same colours; only what was typed has no cell under it, so only that takes none. Live, on real `fastfetch`: a 32-column blue run split into 6 + 26 around one typed character. Three defects underneath it, all found by machinery rather than by reading: * A JOIN removes a buffer line while the buffer's covered span grows, so `lines == covered` and both aligned guesses — Nth line over the Nth covered row, and the same counted from the bottom — resolved to the SAME wrong row. Every untouched row below a join went plain. Anchoring is now a streaming monotone matching: one shell-row cursor that only ever moves forward, advanced once per buffer line, linear in the buffer where the version before it was quadratic. * An EMPTY line is not evidence. Splitting a row makes one, it equals every blank row in the span, and left free to look ahead it claimed the blank row below the last output and took every coloured row in between out of reach of the lines that owned them. * Reflow under a scrolled viewport. `PageList.getTopLeft(.viewport)` returns the viewport pin verbatim, x and all, while `PageList.pin` forces x to 0 — so after a reflow remapped a tracked pin into the middle of a row, the text pass dumped row 0 from that column while the colour pass paired the fragment with the row's FIRST cells. Row 0 wore its left half's colours until the pane snapped back to live output. `bodyText` dumps from column zero now, which is also what ghostty's own renderer draws. Also here: DECSCNM (reverse video) was silently dropped whenever `tty_filter` was off, because the raw path resolved a `.none` colour by role and never consulted the mode. The test that found the first two is the one worth keeping: random editing against an ABSOLUTE oracle — every row's own text names the colour it must have — because the differential oracle it replaced was blind by construction. It skipped the edited row, which is the row the user is complaining about. ## Esc returns to a pane without moving its view Esc in body normal mode runs `Last`, "the pane you were in before this one", and that went through `focusPaneLine`, which recentred a file on the target line unconditionally. So returning to a buffer repainted the whole screen to show a line that was already on it. `focusPaneLine` takes a landing now: `.center` for the three callers going somewhere you have not been (a look target, a path a pane already holds, `@pN:LINE:COL`), `.keep` for Esc. `.keep` leaves the view alone and lets `ensureCursorVisible` — which already existed and already scrolls by the minimum into the `scroll_off` band — be the only thing that may move anything. Not `line = 0`, which `focusPaneLine` already understands as "focus and touch nothing": a background pane's view can move while you are away, because the wheel scrolls the pane under the POINTER and a resize reveals no cursor, so the recorded cursor plus a minimal nudge is what actually gets you back. Ctrl-o and Ctrl-i keep centring, and the asymmetry is structural rather than arbitrary: `Last` only ever CROSSES panes, so the pane it lands on already holds the view you left it with, while `jumpBy` can land in the SAME pane, where a long in-file jump would arrive on the very top or bottom row with `scroll_off` lines of context on one side. Helix splits the same pair the same way — its jumplist centres, its buffer switch does not. One deliberate consequence: under `.keep` a PDF's page is not restored AT ALL, because a page reveal IS that pane's view and a reveal of the page you are already on still snaps `document_scroll_y` to that page's start, discarding where you had read to. When something moved the pane while you were away — the wheel again — Esc leaves it where the wheel left it, and Ctrl-o is how you reach the recorded page. ## host_io.zig: the machine-local half of a host, once `host.zig` is the seam. The part of the answer that is identical on every host with an operating system under it — fork a pane's shell, put bytes on a disk — was written FOUR times: in tty.zig, gui.zig, macos.zig and detached/server.zig. What those copies had in common says what they were for: all four were missing FD_CLOEXEC on the pty master, so in every shell pardes has shipped, a program in one pane could read another pane's terminal. One copy now, and the wire got smaller for it: `ServerMsg.spawn` is gone. A frontend never asked the server to fork anything — the server has an operating system under it and forks through `host_io` like every other host — and `decodeClient` lost the scratch buffer that message needed.