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* Fix returning to tty so it focuses the promptGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* Esc alternates between the last two panes; Toggleterm is goneGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* a native macOS backend: libpardes plus an AppKit shellGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds -Dplatform=macos, a fourth backend beside tty, gui and web. Zig keeps the core, the ptys, every effect and the worker threads; Swift owns NSApplication, the window, input translation, and drawing the cell grid with CoreText. They meet at a hand-written C ABI in src/macos/pardes.h, built as a static library the app links. The ABI is src/web.zig's boundary with the wasm removed, because both hosts are the same animal: someone else owns the clock, feeds events in through flat functions, and reads one packed cell buffer out. The browser proved the shape. The one divergence is that the browser has no processes and forwards every effect to JavaScript, whereas forkpty is right here, so src/macos.zig performs them — spawn, write, resize_pty, save_file, new_file, write_dump, open_link, set_clipboard. lsp, pipe and watch are answered with nothing and marked; the core already tolerates that, since the browser answers none of them either. This deliberately inverts ghostty's split, which was studied first and is written up in docs/ghostty-macos-notes.md. Ghostty hands Zig a bare NSView*, installs its own CALayer and owns the frame clock; Swift never renders. Pardes does the opposite because its frame is already a cell grid and CoreText draws one natively — the alternative is a second hand-rolled glyph atlas, which is what most of gui.zig's 4,300 lines already are. It would also have been written blind: the Swift half cannot be compiled here. What makes the scaffold verifiable rather than dead code is that the Zig half is ordinary POSIX and builds and tests on Linux. Borrowing ghostty's best trick, build.zig translate-C's the header into the test build and src/macos.zig asserts every constant, struct layout, and exported function's arity and widths against it. That guard earned its place immediately: pardes_scroll grew a cell coordinate after the Swift view had been written against the older form. Skipped, and named as the upgrade path in docs/macos.md: the Xcode project, xcframework, lipo and codesigning ghostty needs. All four exist for distribution; a dev build is a swiftc invocation and a directory with a plist. The Swift app is a scaffold and says so — every uncertain API spelling carries an UNVERIFIED marker, and no part of it has been compiled. tty is unaffected: 75/75 snapshot scripts and both unit suites pass.
* add a Shell builtin, default fish, with per-family prompt integrationGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* topbar execute: a selection is only an argument to a builtin that takes oneGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* wrap by default, at the window width, with a break markerGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* add the transient message rowGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* soft-wrap long lines behind a toggleGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* boot a file argument aloneGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* theme the selection colorsGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* support large PDF outlinesGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* make filtered PDF tint the defaultGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* optimize and harness PDF sections navigationGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* add PDF sections output and Look navigationGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* animate anchored theme colors on native and tty backendsGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* separate modal parsing and reuse actions for PDF navigationGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* pipe selections through shell commandsGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* add colorscheme-aware PDF tint modesGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* render PDFs as a continuous vertical page stripGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* tune PDF raster resolution per native backendGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* show New in every pane tag and enforce builtin-first Exec fallbackGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* add New builtin for an empty temporary file in the calling columnGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* load builtin commands from the user config before renderingGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* normal Esc toggles document/terminal focusGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* tty/image: big harness + golden coverage passGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* gui: draw image surfaces as GPU quads via glsl shadersGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* search look goldens: fsearch/grep/psearch/rsearch updatedGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* a right click walks the hits, and a click inside a selection takes it whole; ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-01
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* a corner grab drags the column edge and the pane edge at onceGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
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* the mode is a character in the layout box, not a word in the taglineGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
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* the scrollbar is one column, not twoGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
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* the gui wears any monospace font on the machineGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
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* a Look path can name a range, and search selects what it foundGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* every helix and zed theme on the machine, not a curated nineGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 228 in the ring: 3 pardes ships plus all 214 helix runtime themes and all 11 zed variants across its three families. No exclusions. inherits is what this cost. 76 themes need it, so the reader is two passes now, and the merge is WHOLE-KEY rather than field-wise because helix merges the theme body at depth 1 — the three *_transparent themes clear their parent's background with an empty table, and a field-wise merge would leave it painted. I had that wrong until I read helix-view/src/theme.rs. At 214 files the generator meets themes that are SPARSE rather than broken, and the old fatal-on-anything-missing would have rejected them. Every fallback is helix's own rule: no background at all means wear the terminal's, so bg and fg go null (13 themes, correctly); the twelve RGB fields that cannot be null fall back to ghostty's default palette entries 7 and 0, which is exactly what a pardes terminal already paints an unstyled ANSI index as. fatal is kept for what genuinely cannot be read. Three real bugs surfaced only at scale: #ccc shorthand doubles the nibble (helix's rule, 58 colours), a quoted inline-table key silently dropped a selection colour, and four themes name a cursor background EQUAL to the page because they are about to reverse that cell — taking it painted an invisible move box. 0 degenerate themes out of 225 now: no fg==bg, no syntax colour on its own background, no invisible box. Collisions get an unconditional rule rather than a clever one: a zed variant is always <name>_zed, because both projects ship gruvbox, ayu and one, and a conditional tag would move a name when the other source changes. A comptime assert holds it. Cost: no-op build 0.257 -> 0.276s, a pardes.zig change 46.8 -> 47.5s, binary +0.98%. The generator does 217 sources in 54ms. NextColor stays and is no longer a way to REACH a theme — but the browse got better, not worse: the generated half sorts by name, so its neighbours are that theme's own family. theme.golden's fourth click moved from ayu_dark to acid, which sorting 225 names does; themesel gained a tail capture proving row 228 renders.
* motion, scrolling and redraw are flat in file size nowGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | zig build perf drives the core directly — event, effects, one frame, no pty — over four generated fixtures: 1k lines, 50k, 300k, and 400 lines of 8000 columns, because a file that is long and a file that is wide fail differently. Every sample seeks somewhere else in the file first, since measuring at line 3 of a 300k-line file hides exactly the bug. perf record said half the run was scanning for newlines from byte 0. So File carries a line index, built on demand and invalidated in exactly ONE place — setContent, the funnel every content swap already goes through. That killed the scrollbar's per-frame line count (12.6% of the whole run by itself), scrollBy, ensureCursorVisible, lastNavRow, the syntax window bounds and two O(scroll) walks. normalKey computed max_line as a const at the top: two full passes over the buffer on every keystroke of every kind, for three g/G branches. It is lazy now. The modal primitives each walked the text twice for the same line. And the visible window was re-parsed on every scrolled row — a third of a megabyte per keypress on the wide fixture. The highlighted range is remembered, a scroll inside it is free, and only a re-parse that FOLLOWS a scroll takes slack: doing it unconditionally made typing 2.1x slower, since every character paid for a band it could never amortise. One j on a 19 MB file: 37.8ms -> 266us. Render: 4.1ms -> 77us. Open costs 1.25x more for the one extra pass, which buys 54x on every frame after, and 8 bytes per line of memory. Left standing, measured and named: edit-char is 14ms on 19MB because content is immutable and every keystroke copies the buffer. A third of that is the index rebuild, which could be a shift if setContent knew the edit offset; the rest wants a rope. bodyText's double copy and Surface.print's per-cell decode never rose above 2% of the profile afterwards, so they were left alone. No golden moved.
* multiple cursors, regex selection, and Ctrl-c commentsGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* open files follow the disk, and undo is the merge strategyGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | An external update is pushed onto the undo stack exactly like an edit the user typed, so unsaved work is one `u` away and pardes never has to merge anything. That is the design, not an implementation detail: the whole feature is pushUndo() then setContent(). One inotify instance in the tty shell, blocking in readVec through std.Io on a concurrent task started beside the pty readers — after loop.start(), so the forkpty ordering is untouched. It watches the containing DIRECTORY, because an editor rewrites by rename-over and a watch on the file would follow the dead inode, and it listens for CLOSE_WRITE rather than MODIFY, which is one event per finished writer and most of the debounce for free. Our own Save does not reach the undo stack: each watch keeps a hash of the bytes last seen on disk and save_file restamps it. A hash rather than mtime and size because the reload has to read the file anyway. The core stays sans-IO — one watch effect out, one file_changed event in, and a shell that cannot watch simply never sends the event, which is what the gui and the web platform do. Linux only; fanotify is what the build system uses and is rejected in a comment: it exists for thousands of directories across mounts, and sixteen panes of inotify is a third of the code with no kernel floor. New golden filewatch: edit without saving, overwrite from a shell in another column, watch it reload, undo, get the unsaved edit back. None moved.
* a mostly-vertical touchpad swipe stays verticalGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* a new file splits the doc column you were last working inGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | placeDoc picked its source by SLOT INDEX — it scanned panes from 0 and took the first doc it found — so which column your file landed in depended on internal id allocation, not on where you had been. It now walks the jump stack backwards to the newest live doc pane. No new state: jumps already IS the record of where the keyboard has been, and Pane.serial is already the "this slot was reused" test. The slot-order scan stays as the fallback, deliberately: a restored dump has one jump entry, and if that pane is a shell the stack knows no doc — without the fallback the next file would claim a second column with docs already open. lookpanes moved: a file now lands under the doc that was actually last read rather than under whichever doc happened to hold the lowest pane id. New golden doccol pins the case the line exists for, and it fails at exactly one capture with the walk disabled.
* Help lists every builtin and every way to reach itGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Not a second builtin: Help already rendered "every builtin with a leader path and the key that runs it", and the ask is "every builtin and every shortcut" — the same listing with three more rows and one more column. A new builtin would have been a second renderer over a superset of the same rows, and the two would drift the first time a column moved. The prefix filter is now the degenerate case of the index rather than a separate mode: SPC h ? reads the same array with prefix "h", and the path-less builtins fall out on their own because an empty path starts with nothing. The shortcut column is folded, never typed: chordName spells a chord from Key's OWN declarations, so a new special key names itself and an unnamed non-printable codepoint is a compile error instead of garbage; shortcuts() walks the cmd columns of window_keys and jump_keys, look_cmd/exec_cmd with their keys and buttons, and topbar_str. Retarget a binding in config.zig and this re-renders. So Look reads `enter, right-click`, Back reads `C-o`, Kill reads `topbar`, and Theme reads nothing at all — which is the information. Not a picker, deliberately: n/N stepping a list holding Kill, Del and Delcol would end the session. The names are live text, so middle-click the one you want. Alt-n, Alt-c, the tty toggle and the cut/paste chords cannot appear — they are inline handlers that reach no builtin, so there is no row to put them on. Make one a struct with a cmd column beside its binding and it appears for free. Three goldens moved, all of them the +Help buffer's contents.
* themes: one file each, generated from helix and zed, picked by stepping a listGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* focus history is a stack of locations, and the Jumplist is that same stackGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* Look and Exec are builtins like any otherGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* output panes remember the command that opened themGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* config.zig: every binding and every piece of Look syntax in one fileGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* structure: backends into src/{tty,gui,lsp}, pane kinds and builtins into ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | their own files The core now lies FLAT at src/ and every subdirectory is one backend, so a file being in no directory at all is what says it is core. Pane-kind bodies leave pardes.zig for term_pane.zig / file_pane.zig / output_pane.zig, leaving it the layout, the event/effect machine and the generic render loop. Builtins are one struct each in builtins.zig, and the enum is folded out of the file's own declaration list at comptime — a zig file IS a struct, so the list of builtins and the builtins themselves are the same text. Adding one is writing a struct. Key paths deliberately stay one table for the config pass. Pure refactor: no golden moved.
* lsp: writer seam, ZLS introspection builtins, ctrl-click goto, SPC l groupGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | THE SEAM TAKES A WRITER. `lsp.query`'s `out` is a `*std.Io.Writer`, not a `*std.ArrayList(u8)`. The shell owns the buffer behind it (an `Io.Writer.Allocating`), so a backend never allocates the result, never frees it, and cannot get the allocator wrong — the invalid-free class of bug has nowhere left to live. It also deleted a parameter from five functions: they only ever took a `gpa` to allocate rows, and 0.16's unused-parameter error found every one. `lsp.row()` lost its allocator argument too. Since a Writer cannot rewind or be counted, `query` renders into a scratch Allocating first: the log wants an exact row count, and `explain` throws the rows away and prints narration in their place. INTROSPECTION. `SPC l i` (Lspinfo) and `SPC l w` (Lspwhy), in the `l` group that now holds every language command (see below). They exist because of the seam's own contract: a backend never fails loudly, which is right for an editor, but it makes a broken backend and a correct one that found nothing look identical from the outside. Every query now leaves a record — kind, file, offset, duration, row count, and THE ERROR `run` returned, which `catch {}` swallowed and which was visible nowhere. Lspinfo prints those, plus which ZLS is compiled in, which zig lib dir and whether it actually opens (the usual cause of "gd does nothing in std"), and what the backend answers versus refuses. It answers from ANY pane, including one with no file, because it is about the backend — which matters precisely when the pane you are sitting in is the problem; both shells now send status for a file-less pane. Lspwhy narrates the REAL resolution path. The trace is threaded through `goto` itself, so what it prints is the position context the analyser returned and the branch that actually stopped. A debug view that re-derives the logic beside it is one that can disagree with it. CTRL-CLICK IS gd. Mouse gained a `ctrl` field, set by both shells (SDL asked directly via GetModState rather than read off key-event bookkeeping, which a click with no prior keypress would miss). The flag rides the drag rather than firing on the press: a click does not place the modal cursor until RELEASE, so a query asked at press time would answer about wherever the cursor previously sat. A ctrl-DRAG still selects. The snapshot DSL gained a `ctrl-` button prefix (SGR bit 4, what a terminal sends and what vaxis decodes). test/snapshots/lspdebug.snap covers all three, including a PLAIN click in the same spot that must NOT jump — without it the test would pass on a bug that made every click a goto. Durations cannot live in a golden, so PARDES_LSP_NOTIME (set by the harness, like PARDES_DUMP) omits them. 58 snapshot scripts, hxdiff 360, hxparity 440, unit 46, gui build: all green. lspbench: 17/17, 0 false claims. THE WHOLE LANGUAGE GROUP LIVES UNDER SPC l. pardes keeps its own leader letters back. `SPC d` is Del again, `SPC k` is Kill, `SPC s d`/`SPC s r` are Dump/Restore and `SPC h t` is Tutor — exactly where they were before the language work touched them. The previous pass put the LSP commands on helix's bare `<space>` letters and moved pardes's builtins out of the way (Kill k->q, Del d->wc, Dump/Restore s?->f?, Tutor ht->T). That was the wrong trade. Those five are the most-pressed keys in the editor and predate the language work; an LSP command is something you reach for deliberately and can afford one keystroke more. So every LSP command keeps HELIX'S OWN LETTER and gains the `l` prefix: `<space>k` -> `SPC l k` (hover), `<space>d` -> `SPC l d` (diagnostics), r/a/h/s/S/D likewise. Nothing to re-learn but the prefix, and `Lspinfo`/ `Lspwhy` were already there. THE GOTOS ARE UNTOUCHED. `gd` `gD` `gy` `gi` `gr`, `]d`/`[d`, `]D`/`[D`, `=` and ctrl-click all stay exactly as helix has them — they never collided with anything, so there was never a reason to move them, and they are the ones you actually press mid-edit. leader.snap is restored to the pre-LSP script (its `key q` unmapped-key step works again now that Kill is back on `k`) plus one new step for `SPC l ?`. Its `SPC ?` root listing had to stop waiting on Restore: the full list grew to 33 rows and row 21 falls off the pane, so it watches an early row instead. DEPENDENCY IMPORTS NOW RESOLVE. `gd` on `@import("vaxis")` opens vaxis's root file; before, it silently did nothing while `std` worked perfectly. The asymmetry was not a wiring mistake. ZLS's uriFromImportStr answers exactly three ways: a relative `.zig`/`.zon` path from disk, `std` from `zig_lib_dir` (one directory, which we supply), and EVERY OTHER NAME only by running `zig build --build-runner` to discover the module graph. That last branch needs `zig_exe_path`, which this backend sets to null on purpose — so every dependency import returned `.none`. Confirmed twice over: in ZLS's source, and by `SPC l w` on the import string, which printed the STOP line naming exactly that branch. (The introspection builtin diagnosing its own backend on its first real outing is a decent argument for having built it.) We never needed a compiler for this: build.zig IS the module graph. It folds `root_mod.import_table` into a name -> root-source-file table at configure time and passes it as a build option; the backend consults it precisely where ZLS gave up. Correct by construction — a dependency added or renamed in build.zig cannot forget to update it — and it costs no subprocess, no build step and no runtime work. `SPC l i` now lists the table, since "is this name even importable" is the first question when a jump does nothing. Two limits, both stated in the code: a module whose root is a GENERATED file is skipped (it has no path until make() runs), and a file inside a dependency importing that dependency's OWN internal module name is still a miss — that would mean running its build.zig. TRAP: the table is folded out of root_mod.import_table, so `addOptions` had to move BELOW every `addImport` call. Attached where it was, the table is empty. TOPBAR GAINS `Help`, WHICH IS WHY `SPC ?` LOOKED BROKEN. A bare `pardes` boots straight into tty mode (main.zig: `args.len == 1`), where every printable key belongs to the shell — so SPC never reaches the leader, and `SPC ?`, the one thing that would tell you the leader exists, is exactly the thing you cannot press. Ctrl-b first and it all works; nothing was broken. But "the help is unreachable until you already know the escape hatch" is a bad answer, and there was no mouse route either: Help was the one builtin missing from the bar. Row 0 is not a pane, so a middle-click there is dispatched before any pane's mode is consulted — the word works in tty mode, which is the only reason it earns the width. APPENDED, not inserted, so every existing topbar word keeps its column and no golden's click coordinates move. test/snapshots/ttyhelp.snap pins it from a bare boot: click Help, get the list, shell still TTY at its prompt, then Ctrl-b + SPC ? for the keyboard route. All 58 goldens carry row 0, so all 58 moved. Verified mechanically that the only changes are the row-0 text and the row-0 style run (0-47 -> 0-52), plus: dump/restore record the topbar inside their .zon, and tagnav's `$`+Enter now executes `Help` rather than `Grep` because the bar's last word changed — still exactly what that step's comment claims it tests. THE DEPENDENCY FIX HAS A CEILING, NOW STATED. The module map is consulted from OUR goto handler, not from inside ZLS, so the analyser still cannot type the `vaxis` const: `gd` on `@import("vaxis")` opens the file, `gd` on `vaxis.init` finds nothing. That is now spelled out at the top of lsp_zls.zig and on moduleRoot rather than left implied, and `SPC l w` detects the case by name — if the left side of a failed field access is a known dependency it says so, instead of the generic "could not resolve". Lifting it means giving ZLS a real BuildConfig, either by letting it run the build runner (a subprocess, and with no cross-query cache that is once per keypress) or by synthesizing one into BuildFile.impl. Both are real work and neither is smuggled in. Also fixed while there: the field-access miss was only explained when ZLS returned null, but it returns an EMPTY SLICE when it typed the left side and found no such member. Both are "gd did nothing" from the outside; both are explained now.
* lspbench: probe diagnostics and format against a BROKEN fixtureGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
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* LSP seam: async execution model, helix keymap, evaluation harnessGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The base every language backend plugs into. Three parts: ASYNC. The core had no request/response shape - every effect was fire-and-forget or instantaneous. A language query is the first thing that answers later, so: Effect .lsp -> shell worker -> Event .lsp_resp. tty.zig uses io.concurrent + the vaxis queue, gui.zig a detached thread + the mutex queue it already had for ptys; web no-ops it. The worker never touches the core (path/source/arg are snapshotted into an LspJob), one query in flight identified by a monotonic id so a second press makes the first answer stale, and no rows is a legal answer. KEYMAP. Helix's, verified against its default.rs rather than recalled. gd/gD/gy/gi/gr and ]d/[d had no conflicts. The SPC letters did, so pardes's own builtins moved instead of helix's: Kill k->q, Del d->wc (closing a pane is a window op, and c is helix's own close), Dump/Restore s?->f?, Tutor ht->T. A three-exception muscle-memory map is not a map. RESULTS ARE +SEARCH ROWS. path:LINE:COL text, absolute. That is what look.zig resolves and n/N step, so one row from a goto jumps and several open a buffer - helix's multi-result picker needed no picker code. Backends supply exactly one function (lsp.query) plus a supports set and a name; the base has none on purpose. zig build lspbench scores them on the same corpus: feature matrix (trusting results, not the supports flag - a claimed-but-empty kind is reported as a false claim), cold and warm latency, peak RSS. Two snapshot scripts moved. leader.snap encoded the old key paths. chordcut.snap's last two steps clicked column 5, which lands on a FILE pane, so 'key c-b' toggled nothing and the typed text was being read as normal-mode keys - the golden recorded no TTY pane and no cat -v output anywhere. Pointing them at an actual shell makes both steps assert what their comments claim, and the tty paste chord is now covered for the first time.
* Builtins (Find, Grep) qol improvements and ui fixesGabriel Schneider2026-08-01
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