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* Add optional compact tagline styling for source contextGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* Follow embedded PDF links through LookGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* Remember tag cursors and reserve uppercase pane navigationGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* Tint pane tag filenames with an optional theme colorGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* Align location results and configure source contextGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* Add optional tree-sitter declaration contextGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* Mirror raw terminal mouse selections for text transferGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* Align file clicks and insertion cursorsGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* Route mouse thumb buttons to jump historyGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* Preserve selections when navigating jump historyGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* Add Linux Tty9p mounted terminals and forward raw TTY keysGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* 9p: use cloud9 protocol sessions and transportsGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
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* trunk: resume before the Reload experimentGabriel Schneider2026-09-15
| | | | Empty marker on the last pre-Reload change. Keep the Reload experiment on reload (3801914), its first change on reload-start (200a1fc), and the unfinished performance investigation on reload-perf-wip.
* macos: merge local trackpad gestures with current upstreamGabriel Schneider2026-09-07
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| * macos: use two-finger click for Exec and deep press for LookGabriel Schneider2026-09-07
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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.
* | messages: a fixed log of what the rows said, and a word to read it backGabriel Schneider2026-09-06
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A message row is cleared by the next keystroke, so anything reported while you were looking at another pane was gone before you could read it — a save that failed, a watcher's reload, a builtin's complaint. `setMessage` now records into a fixed ring first: no allocation and no failure path, because it sits underneath `reportError`, which is reached from sites that are reporting an allocation failure. `Messages` (`SPC h m`) reads it back oldest-first. Three things an adversarial pass found, each of which defeated the feature: PROGRESS IS NOT A MESSAGE. A language server emits `Indexing 47%` several times a second, and every tick is a distinct string BY CONSTRUCTION, so no de-duplication can collapse it: at the client's one-per-150ms throttle it takes about nineteen seconds to push every real message out of the ring. A log that one indexing run empties is not a log. That path is `setStatus` now — the row, and nothing else. THE CLOCK MADE EVERY HOST MESSAGE UNIQUE. `message.stamp` prefixes `HH:MM:SS`, so `saved /x.zig` at 14:32:07 and at :09 compared unequal and the ring filled with rows that look identical and each say (x1) — exactly the case the de-duplication exists for. It compares `message.body` now, the row without its clock, and the newest wording wins so the row carries the last time it happened rather than the first. It also keys on the PANE (one pane's failure must not be recorded as another's) and compares the truncated form, so two identical messages over 256 bytes stop being two rows. AND THE CAPACITY BELONGS IN limits.zig. 128 entries is 32.75 KiB that is allocated whether or not anybody reads it — 8.5% of the ESP32-P4's whole 384 KiB heap, about the size of its effect ring. The board takes sixteen. The builtins/leader goldens move because the listing gains a row, and builtins.snap middle-clicks a SCREEN COORDINATE that Tutor moved out of; both updated selectively and verified against a fresh run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Q4RATpafkwahrovHQLKRf
* macos: one tagline rule for both hosts, a kqueue beside the inotify, and ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | effects that compile Three things this shell had its own copy of, and in each case the fix is that it stops having one. **The tagline band.** A pane tag draws at `gui_tagline_font_percent` of the body face and the band it sits on shrinks with it, while the grid row stays body-sized — so something has to decide where the shorter band sits in the taller row. This shell decided by centring, always, which is precisely the case `config.gui_topbar_pane_border_px` exists to prevent: the topbar's unused half-band meets the first pane tag's unused half-band and the window background shows through the seam. The strip is as wide as the bands are short — on a 20-pixel cell, 4 physical pixels at the default 82%, 10 at 50%, 14 at 30% — so it grew as the tagline face shrank and read as "the tagline is wrong on the mac" rather than as one missing rule. The rule is `pardes.taglineBandOffset` in the core now and both pixel hosts call it: row zero bottom-aligned, the first pane-tag row top-aligned, the two joined by `gui_topbar_pane_border_px` in the theme's scrollbar-track colour, every row between centred, and a `Tagbottom` band on the final row flush with the window edge — with the sub-cell strip beneath it painted in that band's own colour, because the core grid holds only whole cells and a window is any height it likes. `pardes_tagline_band_offset`, `pardes_topbar_pane_border_px` and `pardes_topbar_pane_border_rgb` carry it over the C ABI as PHYSICAL pixels: the host multiplies its points by the backing scale going in and divides coming out, which is the snapping `Metrics` already does for the cell, and is what keeps a one-pixel rule one pixel instead of a two-pixel smear. **The watch.** `file_watch.zig` was one mark/reconcile transaction over `inotify`, so the tty shell, the SDL window and the detached daemon all watched nothing off Linux: an edit made outside pardes never reached the pane, and a PDF replaced on disk kept rendering the old inode. It is the same transaction over two kernels now — `init`, `wait`, `stop`, `drain`, `markDir` and `unmarkDir` are still the whole of it, and the hosts wait on a kqueue and poll it exactly as they did the old descriptor. A macOS mark is TWO filters, because a kqueue directory filter reports its entries changing and never a write to a file already inside it: the parent mark follows rename-over saves, `markFile` catches in-place writes, and `remarkFile` re-arms the file filter once a rename has moved the inode. That is the same pair the AppKit host's DispatchSources already used for the same reason. Directory marks are deduplicated here by device and inode, because each `EVFILT_VNODE` filter needs a descriptor of its own and inotify did that deduplication itself; `stop` and `drain` wake through the one `EVFILT_USER` filter, since a kqueue cannot simply be read the way an inotify descriptor can. **The effects.** The three `crt.ci.metal` entry points are `extern "C" [[stitchable]]`. `CIKernel.kernels(withMetalString:)` compiles that source at runtime, looks for stitchable functions, and rejects the WHOLE source with "cannot find a valid stitchable Metal function in the source" when it finds none — so `ScenePostprocessor.init?` returned nil and every scene effect and panel transition silently degraded to the plain CoreText draw. The `effect_sources.zig` test pins the exact spelling of all three, and `draw-effect` in the e2e suite catches the degradation rather than the spelling. Beside them, the offscreen harness owes the core a PRESENTATION. Its window is borderless and never ordered front, so AppKit runs no display cycle and `pardes_frame_presented` — whose only caller is `draw(_:)` — never fired. The core holds pointer gestures inert while a layout mutation has not reached a backend, which for an unpresenting harness is the rest of the script: the first pane a script opened silently killed every later click, drag and Look. So `readFrame` presents what it just rendered, into a bitmap nobody reads. `PARDES_CHROME` also looks under `/Applications`, where a browser's executable lives inside an application bundle and never on `PATH`. The macOS goldens are regenerated; docs/macos.md, config.md, detached.md, web.md and the design PDF follow.
* lsp: a protocol client for every other language, narrated on the message rowGabriel Schneider2026-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The seam grows a second backend: src/lsp/lsp_client.zig speaks JSON-RPC to child language servers — rust-analyzer, clangd, gopls, tsserver, pyright are rows in a spec table — while the in-process ZLS analyser keeps .zig. One reader thread per server owns the socket, routes responses to a mailbox under the conn mutex (monotonic condvar), answers server-to-client requests, feeds the diagnostics store, and narrates $/progress and state changes through a status sink both native shells post to the transient message row: "rust-analyzer: cargo check 88% 955/1083" lands where a save narrates, with the same clock. Chatty progress is throttled and deduplicated; settled states always land, which is also what makes the goldens deterministic. Nothing wedges and nothing healthy dies: waits are deadline-bounded, a timeout cancels and returns no rows, three consecutive timeouts restart the server ONLY while it is idle (an indexing server is narrating its own excuse), spawn and handshake failures back off 10s to 2min, a crash shortly after ready counts as a failure, and only a missing binary disables a spec. PARDES_LSP_{RS,C,GO,TS,PY} override binaries; empty disables; the snapshot harness pins RS to test/lspmock.zig and empties the rest. Mutating answers really mutate now: the @put record beside rename @edit carries per-range text, so = applies the formatter (both backends) and a same-file WorkspaceEdit rename applies atomically, one undo step, narrated ("renamed 2 range(s)"); a multi-file rename previews as rows instead of half-applying. Malformed responses fail closed: coordinates validated not clamped, one bad TextEdit poisons the whole edit set, poison frames kill the connection instead of buffering forever, decoded control bytes reject a uri, hierarchy items too deep to reserialize are skipped. Four kinds helix does not have, on SPC l: c/C incoming/outgoing calls (rows are call sites), t/T super/subtypes. Pull diagnostics (3.17) preferred when advertised. Help gains a language-keys footer for the motions no builtin row could carry; lsp.rel and look.grep now share one path-shortening rule. zig build lspprobe drives the seam from the CLI (comma-separated kinds share one server); measured against a 1083-crate workspace warm: gd 26ms, gr 213 rows 165ms, incoming calls 212 sites 197ms, document symbols 670 rows 347ms. docs/lsp.md tells the whole story; lsp-evaluation.md gets an addendum.
* tutor: half the length, and the parts people actually ask aboutGabriel Schneider2026-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1297 lines to 498. The tutor had grown to the point where the things a newcomer needs first were buried in the middle of a helix reference, and two subsystems it never mentioned at all. REORDERED by what is most different from editors people arrive from, and each part now earns its place: 1 THE MOUSE acme's three buttons and the chords, trimmed 2 PANES NEW. Moving between them, in one place 3 THE TTY Ctrl-b, Shift-Esc, and what plain Esc does 4 DETACHED NEW. The core outliving the terminal showing it 5 THE KEYS the helix half, cut hard, practice blocks kept 6 THE REST PDFs, images, the language backend, scripting PANES was scattered across 3.12, part 2 and the summary; it is one section now, because "how do I get out of this pane" is the question that actually gets asked. Ctrl-w hjkl, Esc, Shift-Esc, Ctrl-o/Ctrl-i, Alt-n, Alt-c, and the three panes that have their own claim on Escape. THE TTY gains the rule the old text got wrong. It said Esc "goes to the program" in raw tty, full stop. It has not for a while: at a shell PROMPT plain Esc hops away like Shift-Esc, and only a program that has TAKEN the tty (vim, a pager) keeps it. That is `takesCommandLine` in pardes.zig, and it is the difference between the toggle feeling obvious and feeling arbitrary. DETACHED did not exist in the tutor at all. `--detach`, `--attach`, the Attach/Detach words and their chords, why the pane shells belong to the session and never stop, why N frontends share ONE screen at the smallest common grid, and that `--fs`/`--fs9` work in a daemon now. THE KEYS lost the most: thirteen subsections became six, roughly thirty practice blocks became six. What went is the enumeration a reference does better; what stayed is the handful of blocks that teach the one idea helix users do not arrive with -- motions SELECT, so `wd` is what `dw` was -- plus the count rule, which is the other thing that surprises. Part 6 documents `pty/`, `--fs9` and the `9p` word, none of which the tutor knew about. The first seven lines are byte-identical on purpose: test/snapshots/ tutor.golden pins them, and it regenerated unchanged. ALSO REGENERATED: test/snapshots/builtins.golden, which had been stale since the `9p` word was added a few changes ago -- one more builtin shifts every row of the `SPC ?` listing below it. Nothing was wrong with the code; the golden had simply not been updated with the feature. All 95 snapshot scripts pass.
* 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.
* One core behind N frontends, the board's own runner moved in, and every ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | board cap on one screen ## The wire is the effect stream, not a new protocol `pardes --detach` leaves a core running with no terminal; `pardes --attach` is a frontend that owns a terminal and a socket and nothing else. N frontends on one core all look at the same screen — `screen -x`, not N sessions. The codec (`src/detached/wire.zig`) carries exactly one `Event` or one `Host.VTable` call per message. That is not a coincidence and it is why there is no third vocabulary to keep in step: the core's IO seam was already a struct of function pointers with plain-data arguments, so a socket is a legal implementation of it. `nested.zig`'s socket could not be reused — it carries a builtin command line, and a command line cannot carry a frame. ARCHITECTURE-NEUTRAL on purpose, not as decoration. The frontend on the far end may be riscv32-freestanding on the ESP32-P4 while the core is x86_64 Linux, so every field is an explicit little-endian fixed width and no message is a blit of a native struct. A protocol that only works between two builds of the same compiler would have thrown away the one frontend that motivated it. ## The board comes in; its toolchain stays out `src/p4.zig` becomes `src/esp32p4.zig`, and the pardes half of `../05-zig-p4` — the vaxis-over- serial runner, the UART editor terminal, the keystroke rescue ring, the on-die test suite — moves into `src/esp32p4/`. `build.zig.zon` gains `.zig_p4 = .{ .path = "../05-zig-p4" }`, so `zig build -Dplatform=esp32p4 -Desp32p4-firmware` builds, flashes, monitors and self-tests the board from this repo's `build.zig`. The DIVISION is the point. What moved is what only pardes wants: the runner that drives a pardes core over a serial line. What stayed is everything a second project would also want — the HAL, the register/radio/oracle layers, the linker script, `_start`. `zig_p4` declares no dependencies of its own and its `build()` early-returns when it is not the root package, so this costs the package graph exactly zero packages and the editor's own builds nothing at all. ## limits.zig: nine forgettable places become one budget Nine `platform == .esp32p4` capacity tests lived in nine files. They were never nine decisions — they are ONE decision, how much memory this build may spend, taken nine times where no reader could see the total. `src/limits.zig` puts the whole budget on one screen with every cap named against what it is measured against, derived from two booleans. The payoff is testability on a machine that is not the board: the caps are ordinary comptime values, so a host build can be compiled against the board's numbers and the parking, eviction and clamping paths a 240 KiB core takes get exercised by the normal test suite instead of only over a UART. ## A bare `zig build` `zig build` with no arguments now builds the tty and GUI binaries and installs them into `~/.local/bin`, and says so once on stdout with the flag that overrides it. The old default built one binary into `zig-out` — a path nothing on a `PATH` ever looks at, which made "build it" and "use it" two different commands for no reason.
* Compare a whole row with one memcmp before looking at cellsGabriel Schneider2026-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `Surface.cells` is contiguous and row-major, so a row is a single `memcmp` against the shadow grid - and on a keystroke eleven of twelve rows are untouched. The per-cell loop was ~40 branchy comparisons per row where this is one call over 1,120 bytes. Byte equality implies visual equality, which is what makes the shortcut sound: a row that compares equal cannot be hiding a changed cell, and a row that differs only in padding falls through to the per-cell path, which is correct and merely slower. Measured on the die at 360 MHz: the grid walk 246 -> 226 us. That is a small win and the reason is worth recording - at 27 KB read per frame and about 6 cycles per byte, this stage is now bounded by L2MEM bandwidth rather than by comparison work, so there is little left in it. It is also why board compute scaled 2.6x rather than 4x when the core clock went up 4x. Verified with a canonical-style A/B: reference path (`shadow_grid = false`) and incremental path, same 18-step workload, same clock - identical characters and identical resolved style in every cell. snap 95/95, hxdiff 481/0, hxparity 561/0, unit-test, tty and p4 both build.
* Make a keystroke 2.6x cheaper by not asking Unicode about ASCIIGabriel Schneider2026-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A keystroke on the ESP32-P4 cost 17.0 ms and the goal is 4. Profiling the core in that board's exact configuration - 40x12, tree-sitter disabled, via `zig build perf -Dtree-sitter=disabled -- --cols 40 --rows 12 --only small` - named the cost, and it was Unicode machinery answering questions about the letter `y`. Four changes, each a fast path guarded so that non-ASCII text takes exactly the road it took before. `modal.graphemeStart` was 21.5% of a keystroke, the single largest item. It iterates graphemes FROM THE START of the text with the full UAX #29 break state machine until it passes the offset, and the render path calls it once per visible row with a column offset - so the cost followed the cursor's distance along its line. That is the shape measured on the die, where inserting at column 320 of a fixed 320-character line cost 7.8 ms more than inserting at column 0 of the same line. In UAX #29 every ASCII scalar is its own cluster with ONE exception, GB3 (CR joined to LF); every other rule that could extend a cluster - Extend, ZWJ, SpacingMark, Prepend, Regional_Indicator - is spelled with non-ASCII scalars. So an ASCII byte whose predecessor is also ASCII, and not that CR-LF pair, IS a boundary. O(1), and sound rather than approximate. `Surface.print` then became the largest at 26.2%: per character it took a UTF-8 length, a decode, a FRESHLY CONSTRUCTED grapheme iterator, a slice validation and a width lookup, to conclude that `y` is one cell. Printable ASCII followed by ASCII takes none of that now. Same guard, same reason. `file_pane.graphemeDisplayWidth` was 6.9%, essentially all of it asking `gwidth` about ASCII. Bounded to 0x20..0x7e on purpose: DEL and the C0 controls are not one printable cell and `gwidth` stays the authority on them. `modal.lineSlice` searched for "\n" with the generic substring search where a memchr does; it is called once per visible row per frame. Measured at the P4's geometry and configuration, on the host: render 55 -> 12 us, key-down 483 -> 24 us, key-right 327 -> 13 us, edit-char 205 -> 46 us. On the die, the per-character cost of a keystroke fell from 54.3 to 6.9 us - 7.9x - and a keystroke at a 160-character line from 25.56 ms to 15.36 ms. ## The shadow grid, and why it is static `src/p4.zig`'s `present` copied all 480 cells into vaxis every frame, which measured 6.75 ms on the die - 57% of a keystroke - and was paid whether or not anything changed: a second render with nothing new cost the same as the first. vaxis diffs its own grid, but only after being told every cell, and being told is the expensive part. So `present` now keeps the previous Surface and tells vaxis only what moved. `Cell.visuallyEqual` is the right comparison and already existed. Copy: 6.75 -> 1.45 ms. The grid lives in `.bss`, sized by `max_cols` x `max_rows` at comptime, and that is not a micro-optimisation. The first version allocated it from the editor's heap; on a board whose 384 KiB is nearly spoken for, that is exactly the kind of change that works and then breaks something else three steps away. `shadow_grid` is a comptime A/B switch, kept deliberately. With it false, `present` behaves as it did before - clear and write every cell - which is the reference any measurement should be compared against, and the way to tell a rendering bug from a rendering difference. It earned its keep immediately: the two paths were run against the same 19-step workload on the die - inserts, deletes, motions that move the modified-marker, a line outgrowing the viewport, backspaces that shrink it - and the reconstructed screens are byte-identical. ## Verification `snap` 95/95 scripts, `hxdiff` 481 cases 0 mismatches, `hxparity` 561 cases 0 mismatches, `unit-test`, `image-harness`, `pdf-harness`, `mupdf-check`, and tty / p4 / gui all build. The rendering changes are exactly the sort that pass a latency benchmark while corrupting a screen, so the snapshot parity suite is the one that matters here and it is unchanged. `test/perf.zig` gains `--cols`/`--rows`/`--only`. The screen's shape is one of the things that table exists to hold constant, and 40x12 is not a scaled guess at the board - it is the board. `--only` exists because under `perf record` one 63 ms cell on the largest fixture swamps every sample from the case being asked about. ## Found, not fixed `vx.resize` fails on this board: a runtime geometry change hits its allocation failure path, restores the previous size and returns, so 80 bytes go out where 1,392 should. Verified independent of everything above - it reproduces with `shadow_grid` false. The board therefore has one geometry for the life of a session, which is why the staleness test above compares two firmwares rather than resizing one.
* tests: a capture is a delta and a click names its word, so a tagline edit ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-25
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* acmefs: pardes --fs serves acme's control filesystem over raw Linux FUSEGabriel Schneider2026-08-25
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* builtins + config: Save reaches every pane holding text of its own, and ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-25
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* syntax + pdf_pane + file_pane: prose grammars paint, pdf Esc cancels, gj/gk ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-25
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* host: the core owns the event loop; every platform becomes a vtable of ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-25
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* animation: six character-motion panel transitions, composed in the core so ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-25
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* term_pane + builtins: terminal pane work, builtins/config additions, snapshotsGabriel Schneider2026-08-18
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* nested + pardes: snapshot updates and small behavior fixes across panesGabriel Schneider2026-08-18
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* file_watch + builtins + config: richer watch semantics, new builtins, config ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-18
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* modal + file_pane: rework editing math and pane behavior, config/syntax ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-18
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* animation: core publishes transition records; gui evaluates via shaders, tty ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-18
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* big slow change: prebuilt shaders (SPIR-V/Metal), core gui reflow, docs, web ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-18
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* pdf: continuous scroll bench harness and per-frame render pathGabriel Schneider2026-08-15
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* look: richer path/range parsing, pdf rendering, corner-drag and stepgrain ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-15
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* shaders: -Dprebuilt-shaders, so a gui build needs no Vulkan SDKGabriel Schneider2026-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* docs: the tutor taught three keystrokes wrong, and the rest had driftedGabriel Schneider2026-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* clipboard, n/N and the tty prompt: three things that were half-wiredGabriel Schneider2026-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* terminal: memoize the motion surface instead of dumping the scrollback per keyGabriel Schneider2026-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Every keystroke in a shell pane rebuilt the motion surface from scratch: shellRows dumped ghostty's WHOLE history+active grid, split it, blanked the prompt rows and handed back slices into the scratch arena, which the next update threw away. A pane sitting on a multi-megabyte agent transcript paid an O(scrollback) dump per press of `j`, and paid it once or twice per key, since flatSurface then rebuilt the same rows joined by '\n' beside it. The dump is now memoized against the pane it was built for (term_pane.RowsCache on Pardes.shell_rows), gpa-owned rather than scratch-arena because the whole point is to outlive the update that built it. One entry, not a table: the surface is built for the pane the cursor is in, and a second pane asking would only double a multi-megabyte buffer for a slot it is about to lose again. A pane that is not the live one is answered from the arena as before. The lifetime rule is the part that would have rotted silently, so it is one rule and it is written down: `rows` is handed out to callers, so everything that notices the entry has gone bad — output arrived, the grid reflowed, the pane died, another pane wants the slot — only marks it `stale`, and the buffers are freed in exactly two places, `sweep` at the TOP of an update before any handler can be holding them, and `reset` when the editor goes away. Nothing frees mid-update. dropPane clears the pointer immediately though: a freed pane's address comes back from the allocator as a different pane, and an entry still naming it would answer for the wrong grid. Two things fall out of having the join already: - flatSurface returns the memo's `text` verbatim when the lines it was handed are the cached rows untouched, instead of rebuilding the join. - paneCursorLines returns `rows` directly when there is no edit buffer, where it used to copy the array one slice at a time to produce exactly what it was given. One bug on the way past, in the same function: an EMPTY edit buffer writes one line but modal.lineCount("") is 0, so `ls` was sized one short of what the loop writes — the same floor the paste site needs. Killing a whole line (`A<C-u>`, `d%`) on a buffer covering the last row made that a length of zero. And test/perf.zig grows the axis that would have caught this: a terminal scoreboard beside the file one, three scrollback fixtures (64 KiB, 1 MiB, 8 MiB — half the ceiling) against render / output / resize-rows / resize-cols / key-down / edit-char, sharing the existing text and JSON reports and the --base comparison. resize-cols and resize-rows are both there because a COLUMN change reflows every page in the list and a row change does not. Measured on that table: key-down is 142 / 630 / 636 us across the three fixtures — flat from 1 MiB to 8 MiB, which is the dump being gone, and render flat at ~110 us throughout. What remains of key-down's step at 1 MiB is the linear scan indexOf refuses to index for a terminal; that is now a ponytail waiver naming its own price (615 us against 140 us) and the threading through paneOff/panePos/paneLineStart it would cost, to be done the day 0.6 ms shows up next to something anybody can feel.
* merge the macOS app branch: the AppKit shell, pixel attachments, live ↵Gabriel Schneider2026-08-11
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | theming, and mupdf -Djpx Three commits off 38e9919 (macos-app@upstream) merged into main's ghostty bump. No textual conflicts, and two things the merge needed: - nested.zig asked libc for fstatat. Darwin has it; on linux std.c declares it `void` (glibc hides it behind a versioned symbol std cannot name), so the tty build stopped at 'type void not a function'. statNoFollow keeps fstatat on darwin and asks statx on linux for the same three fields, which is what this file did before the branch generalized it to both platforms. - .DS_Store rode along with a797a1a. Deleted, and .gitignore now says so. linux: snap 86/86, unit-test, image-harness and mupdf-check green. nested.zig also type-checks for aarch64-macos.
| * macos: pixel attachments, live theming, and a signed appGabriel Schneider2026-08-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
| * macos: the AppKit shell, its icon, and the offscreen e2e harnessGabriel Schneider2026-08-11
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* | ghostty: bump pin to 82e53e3f and fix tab/virtual-column vt handlingGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
|/ | | | | | | - build.zig.zon: bump ghostty ba38b493 -> 82e53e3f (translate-c backport, fixes 404 on cold cache), update hash - src/pardes.zig: adapt Terminal.init/resize to new std.Io signatures; fix display-column conversion for tabs and clicks past EOL (fileRawDisplayCol/fileRawAtDisplay) - test/e2e_harness.zig: adapt to new ghostty_vt signatures - snap suite 86/86 green
* fixed lsp renameGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* replace ArrayLists with bounded storageGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* tagbottom: the message row sits just above the tagline, not at the topGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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* lsp rows: paths relative to the asking file, and the completion textGabriel Schneider2026-08-10
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