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# Changelog
## 0.0.4
- Drive the editor over 9P the way acme is driven. Panes take sam
addresses (`/re/`, `#n`, `$-1`, `0/re/`), `L:C` and inclusive `L:C-L2:C2`
ranges on `addr`, with `data` and `xdata`; `Edit` runs the sam command
language as one undo step. `exec` and `ctl` buffer lines per open, and a
line without a newline runs with its write. One rule for failure: a
builtin that fails fails the write and logs one `err`, no `msg`.
- New 9P files: `/layout`, `/tag`, `/tagexec`, `col/<serial>/{tag,ctl,exec}`,
`pane/<n>/tagexec`, `/recent`, ask/answer records, and a `size` ctl for
detached sessions (160x50 by default). Listings freeze at their open, so
a read in several chunks never splices two moments.
- acme's ctl words (`name`, `put`, `clean`, `dirty`, `del`, `delete`,
`dot=addr`, `addr=dot`, `limit=addr`, `mark`, `nomark`, `show`,
`cleartag`) are accepted again, done by the files that replace them; a
pane's ctl reads acme's fields in acme's order. `Put` saves and `Delete`
closes; acme builtins pardes lacks are refused, never run as shell
commands. plan9port's `9p write` always truncates, so piping into `body`
replaces it: append with `>>` through a mount.
- Command panes and a REPL binding; `pty/run` runs one line and answers its
exit status. Every child starts with default signal dispositions.
- `Recent` lists recently opened files, closed ones included, and persists
in `$XDG_STATE_HOME/pardes/recent`. A Jumplist row for a closed file says
`(closed)`. `+Unsaved` lists dirty panes. `ThemeSel` and `FontSel` are now
`Themes` and `Fonts`; `Exit`'s refusal opens in an output pane.
- `pardes --wait FILE` (`-w`) run inside a pane opens FILE there and returns
only when its pane is deleted, as plan9port's `E` does: set
`EDITOR='pardes --wait'` for fish's Ctrl-O, git and the rest. Without it,
`pardes FILE` still hands the file over and returns at once.
- Only a write logs an `err`: a refused open, create or remove fails with
Plan 9 words (`permission denied`, `file does not exist`) and logs nothing.
- The tag is a full text buffer: multi-line, with undo.
- Helix keys: the skipped non-conflicting keys, full registers and per-range
anchors, checked against the latest helix.
- Deleting the last column leaves the window empty but for its tag, as in
acme. A buffer whose file was deleted on disk counts as dirty.
- 62 themes in 13 families, each as close as possible to its original,
grouped by family in `Themes`; an `acme` theme taken from plan9port's
source, with acme's grips, 2 px rules and a 1 px tag rule. Sizes follow
display density.
- GUI motion: `Motion` flavours (crisp, smooth, bouncy, playful, off), `Lift`,
a cursor that glides and moves with its pane, smooth scroll, and optional
Bloom, Vignette, Grain, SelectionGlow, HoverGlow and Shadertoy post passes
that recompile on save. Still passes let the GUI rest; Crt keeps drawing.
- The terminal: replies to capability queries, malformed escape sequences
and lone modifier keys never become typed text; function keys, Insert and
the keypad reach terminal panes; a lone Escape is Escape at once; a focus
change no longer resends every blank cell.
- Speed: the theme's chrome is worked out once, not per grapheme; typing
tells `g.` where its edit ended; large body and data writes are linear;
a pattern that opens with a literal jumps to it. `zig build perf-gate`
fails any gesture more than 3x its recorded baseline.
- Robustness: over-long paths, non-UTF-8 bytes and odd 9P input are refused,
never a panic; seeded GUI, core and 9P monkeys (`zig build monkey-9p`)
replay and shrink what they find.
- A column can be empty, as in acme. `Newcol` makes an empty column and
gives its tag the keyboard; closing a column's last pane, or dragging it
away, leaves the column where it was with nothing in it, drawn as its tag
over blank space. The `+New` placeholder that used to stand in an emptied
column, and the machinery that swapped it out when something else arrived,
are gone. Closing the session's last pane now quits.
- New panes go where acme's makenewwindow puts them: into the active column
(the one last typed or clicked in), filling it when it is empty, else under
the text of a pane with room to spare, else halving the biggest pane; never
into a new column. `Placement pardes` brings back the old rules, which open a
first document in a column of its own.
- A document dragged into the left column no longer closes the untouched
boot shell there; `BootShell replace` brings that back.
- Column tags are always shown: the `ColumnTags` setting is gone, and an
init file's `ColumnTags` line is ignored with a message.
- Carrying a pane or a column by its grip shows acme's box cursor in the SDL
shell and a move cursor on the web.
- `Del` takes a side. `Del k` and `DelAbove` give the closed pane's rows to
the expanded pane above it, `Del j` and `DelBelow` to the one below. A bare
`Del` from the keyboard on a pane with panes both above and below asks on
its notice band, and one key answers; a click, a 9P write or a script
still closes it at once, rows going up as before.
- A prompt (Save's path, a search, a pipe) is drawn in the tagline's pitch
like the other notices instead of spread one glyph to a body cell, and in
the SDL shell every notice chip is ruled off from the body like a tagline.
- Answer 9P on the connection's task instead of the editor's loop. The core
is single-threaded and `pardes.turn` says whose turn it is with it: the
editor's by default, given up while it waits for input and while a step of
it is out in a syscall, and taken by a connection task to answer a request.
A request that would change a pane while a step is out parks in the engine
and is retried when the editor rests. So a session can open, read and save
its own tree through a mount -- which used to hang it outright, and was
then refused by name -- and the name-based refusal, the in-process routing
of a mount of oneself and the mailbox that shipped every request to the
editor's thread are gone.
- A notice wider than its pane keeps its tail rather than its head: the end
of a message is the file name or the reason.
- Give pty children their own terminal identity. `TERM`, `COLORTERM` and
`TERM_PROGRAM` are now written by pardes rather than inherited from whatever
launched it, and the child is exec'd with that environment. A macOS `.app`
launch supplies no `TERM` at all, so until now `clear` failed, nothing
painted a colour, and every cursor-addressing program fell back to printing
lines.
- Answer tty occupancy on macOS. `ttyTaken` had no darwin implementation and
said `false` for every pane, which made `Pardes.takesCommandLine` permanently
true: a bare Escape in a raw terminal ran the `Last` builtin instead of
reaching the child, and `Exec` always believed the pane sat at its prompt.
libproc answers it from the tty's foreground process group, and the
occupancy suite now runs on both platforms instead of only Linux.
- Flatten the 9P control tree: `self/` is gone, so `/index`, `/pane/<n>/`,
`/screen` and `/os` sit at the root. `/new` is one clone file (reading it
makes a pane and answers its serial), `/ctl` takes `look TEXT` and
`exec TEXT` in the editor's own command language and answers the serials a
command touched, `/log` streams pane events, and each pane gains `name` and
`sel` (replacing `rdsel`/`wrsel`); `cons`, `new/` and the `name`, `put`,
`del` and `delete` ctl verbs are gone in favour of `name` and `exec`. Stats
carry real lengths, modes and mtimes. Sources are served under `/src` only
with `-Dembed-sources=true`. The tree code moved from `src/fs.zig` to
`src/ninep/`.
## 0.0.3
- Add pinned tree-sitter declaration context, with optional compact tagline
styling and separators between discontinuous source lines.
- Configure search and LSP result context with `LocationsConfig`. Results use
aligned, muted context and navigate actual matches with `n` and `N`.
- Follow PDF links through Look, with a link cursor and a choice of destinations
when a target also names a valid Look location.
- Remember tagline cursors, distinguish filenames and terminal commands with
theme colors, and keep compact tag text, pointer hits and anchors aligned.
- Reorder columns with aligned, distinctly colored drag grips. Grips leave a
small gap before command text; GUI pane indicators center using font metrics.
- Cycle pane input modes with `Mode`, retain it in terminal tags, and handle
keypad Enter in native and attached terminal sessions.
- Preserve selections through jump history, support mouse thumb navigation,
align click and insertion cursors, and mirror terminal mouse selections.
- Make output location highlighting opt-in and ignore slash-only comment
markers during general Look navigation.
- Use cloud9 for 9P sessions and transports and add Linux mounted terminal
sessions with raw terminal key forwarding.
- Detached sessions now use protocol version 6. Update the server and attached
clients together.
## 0.0.2
- A panic is written down somewhere it survives. Every crash this program has
ever had went to stderr and nowhere else, and stderr is the one place it
cannot keep anything: in the TTY shell stderr IS the screen, so the trace
lands on the grid the terminal is being reset out of and the next `clear`
takes it; the SDL and AppKit shells have no terminal at all; a `--detach`
session's goes wherever its launcher left it, which is usually nowhere. So
the message and the frames behind it are now appended to `crashes` beside the
`init` file, under one line naming the build that produced them — version,
commit, UTC timestamp, os-arch and pid — which is exactly the set a bug
report needs and the set a reporter cannot be asked to reconstruct after the
fact. `src/crash.zig` runs inside the panic handler, so it takes no lock of
this program's, allocates nothing of its own, and every failure is swallowed:
a crash file that could not be written must not become the crash, and stderr
still gets its own copy either way. The file carries NO STACK TRACE, and that
is measured rather than chosen: `writeCurrentStackTrace` called from a panic
handler *before* `defaultPanic` wedges the process at 0% CPU, and
`captureCurrentStackTrace` — which looks like the safe half of it — takes
`SelfInfo`'s rwlock exclusively on its first call, so a panic inside the walk
leaves that lock held and `defaultPanic` waits on it for the life of the
process. A crash that becomes a hang is worse than the crash. What makes
`defaultPanic` itself survive that is its private `panic_stage`, reachable
from nowhere outside `std.debug`, so the frames stay on stderr where they
already work. ONE record per process, because the nested panic std's trace
printer raises comes back through the handler: the first version of this
wrote the real message and then "reached unreachable code" underneath it,
which is the panic handler's own second `vaxis.recover()` double-closing the
tty — `recover()` never cleared the global saying there was one. That call is
guarded now too, in both the panic and the segfault handler, which is a fix
older than this file. The AppKit shell got a panic handler of its
own in the process: the macOS build roots at `macos.zig`, so the one in
`main.zig` had never run there — in the shell with the least useful stderr of
the four.
- A big screen can attach to a detached session. The wire's grid ceiling is
512x128 and no frontend ever clamped to it — the hello carried the window
raw — so a 4K display at a small font, which is already past 128 rows, had
its geometry refused by the session's decoder as `BadValue`. That path
answers with `close(.protocol)` and no `refuse` behind it, so the frontend
reported the one thing a bare hangup can mean: "that session hung up on the
connect", at a session with all 32 slots free. `client.zig` now asks for the
largest grid the protocol carries, which is what its own GEOMETRY note
already promises a frontend gets — the session is drawn at its own size in
the corner of a bigger window, exactly as when another frontend is the
smaller one. A zero geometry is dropped rather than clamped, because the
session grid is the smallest common one and a frontend reporting 1 would
collapse everybody else: `TIOCGWINSZ` answers 0x0 during a teardown and the
tty shell forwarded it, so that was the same mute hangup by another route.
The clamp alone would have replaced one bug with a worse one: `max_cols *
max_rows` is 65536 and a run's length prefix is a `u16`, so the single grid
legal at both bounds is the one grid whose full frame — and an attach always
produces a full frame — cannot be described by one run. It panicked on the
`@intCast` in a safe build and was illegal behaviour in a fast one. The
encoder splits the run instead, which `frameBound` had already paid for, and
the protocol version is bumped to 2: the geometry a v2 frontend now asks for
is one a v1 daemon panics encoding, so a mixed pair — `zig build` replacing
the binary under a running session — meets a `Refusal.version` instead of
losing every pane shell the daemon owns.
- `pardes nosuchfile` opens an editor. It used to return `BadArgs` out of
`main`, which std prints as `error: BadArgs` with a return trace under it:
indistinguishable from a crash, for a typo, and it left the human with no
editor at all. A launch that names nothing now boots one `+Errors` pane
filling the window — acme's own vocabulary for output that came from the
program rather than from a word somebody clicked — saying `file or directory
not found` and the argument AS TYPED, in the directory it was typed in — an
output pane's directory is where a `Grep` from it walks, where its `Newtty`
spawns and what its `Save` prefills, so a pane rooted at `""` would have
pointed all three at `/`. A typo INSIDE pardes is refused by that shell in one
line instead: the hand-off block that keeps a pardes from stacking a second
full-screen UI inside a pane of the first says in its own comment that a word
naming nothing must not get through, and an `+Errors` boot would have made a
typo the one input that did. A `chdir` that fails on a directory that really
is one is still `BadArgs`: that is a permission problem, not a typo, and the
two want different answers.
- The macOS trackpad's two verbs trade places: a two-finger click is Exec and
a deep press is Look. Exec is what a hand spends a session doing, so it takes
the gesture that costs nothing, and the verb that goes somewhere is worth one
deliberate push past the click. Three fingers stay Exec, and that is the
hardware rather than a gesture left unused: macOS's secondary click is "click
or tap with two or more fingers", so a three-finger click arrives as
`rightMouseDown` exactly like a two-finger one, and the resting count is the
only thing that keeps either of them off Look. `pressureChange` still
releases the click in flight before the new button goes out, which now steps
around acme's 1-3 chord (Paste) where it used to step around 1-2 (Cut). Look
by finger count is gone, so a Mac with "Force Click and haptic feedback" off
— or a trackpad with no force sensor — reaches it through a real mouse's
right button, the `Look` builtin, or Enter on the word. `trackpad.snap`
asserts all of it without a trackpad, because `NSTouch` and the pressure
stages have no public constructors and `Trackpad` is therefore pure policy a
script can name finger counts to; the swap left every golden screen
byte-identical under the other gesture, which is what shows the two paths
were exchanged and nothing else moved.
- A filtered terminal costs what an unfiltered one does. `Filter`'s second
stage asked `RGB.contrast` for every cell it painted, and that call ends in
`std.math.pow` six times over — a libm round trip per cell, per frame, to
re-derive a ratio against a background that had not moved. The indexed path
takes a `u8`, so all 256 of its answers are now enumerated once per pass,
after the two default roles are fixed and before the first cell is read;
what a cell names is an array index into them. Only truecolour, whose
16.7M inputs cannot be tabulated, still reduces, and the direct-mapped RGB
cache is what keeps that cheap. Tracy over the AppKit shell, ReleaseFast,
190x56: the recolour pass falls 3.09 ms to 0.130 ms and the whole frame
3.37 ms to 0.299 ms. The luminance table is comptime-evaluated from
ghostty's own expression and a test pins it to `RGB.luminance` and
`RGB.contrast` exactly, across every channel value and all 65 536 palette
pairs, because the filter's decision is a threshold comparison where one
ULP is a different colour on screen.
- A pardes launched from the Dock finds the same programs a pardes launched
from a terminal does. LaunchServices hands a bundle launchd's own
environment, whose `PATH` is `/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin`, and every pty
shell, `|` filter and language server inherited it — so `yazi` in
`/opt/homebrew/bin` was missing in the app and present in the same build run
from a shell, which reads as "the Dock build is broken". `host_io.Shell`
composes `/etc/paths` then `/etc/paths.d/*` in the order `path_helper`
reads them and adopts the result before the first fork in all four native
hosts. It appends, so an inherited entry is never demoted and a configured
`PATH` is left byte-for-byte alone: the rule is that only a `PATH` nobody
configured gets repaired.
- Language servers other than ZLS start on macOS. The protocol client opened
its control socket with `SOCK.CLOEXEC`, which Zig defines for Linux and
which Darwin answers with `EPROTONOSUPPORT` — so `socketpair` failed before
any fork, every spec in the table reported "no server", and rust-analyzer,
clangd and gopls were unreachable in every macOS build. It is a plain
socket plus `fcntl(FD_CLOEXEC)` now, the route `fuse.zig` and `nested.zig`
already used. Verified end to end against a 200-crate Rust workspace:
rust-analyzer indexes, and `gd`, `document_symbols` and `hover` answer.
- `SPC l i` reports what the language backends are doing in the macOS app,
and `|` filters a selection there. Both effects were unimplemented host
methods — `lsp` and `pipe` were absent from the AppKit vtable, so the core
answered its own empty answer and the panel rendered blank while a sort
filter silently did nothing. The snapshot-plus-worker body each shell had
its own copy of is one module (`src/lsp_host.zig`), and the in-flight pipe
table is `selection_pipe.Tasks`; all three native shells share both.
Unsolicited server news ("rust-analyzer indexing 45%") reaches the message
row because the status sink is registered rather than merely defined.
- Animation runs at the speed it claims. `pardes_animation_tick` advanced one
scene frame per callback and reported time as `frame_count / 60`, so
animation time was a count of how often the callback happened rather than
how much time had passed — and the AppKit chain re-armed `asyncAfter(.now()
+ 0.016)` only AFTER the previous frame's work, making the real period 16 ms
plus all of it. Motion ran at roughly three quarters of wall clock,
unevenly. The tick measures elapsed monotonic time and spends it in whole
16 ms steps, banking the remainder, so a late callback advances two frames
instead of stretching one; the arithmetic is a pure function with its own
tests, no display attached. On macOS 14 and later the run is driven by one
`CADisplayLink` phase-locked to vsync instead of a chain rebuilt per frame.
- A filtered terminal's colours are mapped in two stages, and the second one
keeps text off the page. `Filter` reduces every colour to its nearest
canonical xterm key and reads that key out of ghostty-vt's theme-derived
256-colour projection — a comparison of RGB triples, which knows about hue
and nothing about the background. The projection is generated FROM the
default foreground and background, so its cube corners are those two
anchors, and the nearest key to a truecolour extreme was therefore the
background itself: `\x1b[38;2;255;255;255m` on acme's `#ffffea` paper
resolved to `#ffffea`, a WCAG ratio of 1.000, text painted the colour of the
page under it. Every curated theme owned such a key — 231 on the light one,
ANSI black on both dark ones, which is a bare `\x1b[30m`. The two default
roles are now mapped first and named as the anchors they are, and every
other FOREGROUND has to clear `config.tty_filter_min_contrast` (1.5) against
the mapped background; one that cannot is not mapped at all, and takes
whichever anchor is still visible there. Backgrounds are exempt, because a
background is the page the floor is measured against. Measured across the
curated three the floor refuses 12, 16 and 7 of 256 keys, where a WCAG
body-text 4.5 would refuse 61, 154 and 91 and flatten the palette.
## 0.0.1
- Pane taglines sit where they do in the SDL window. The macOS shell had its own
copy of the band geometry and it only ever centred the shorter band in its
body-sized row, which is the exact case `gui_topbar_pane_border_px` exists to
prevent: the topbar's unused half-band and the first pane tag's unused
half-band meet, and the window background shows through the seam — 4 physical
pixels at the default 82%, 10 at 50%, 14 at 30% on a 20-pixel cell, so it grew
as the tagline face shrank. The rule moved into the core and both pixel hosts
now call it: row zero bottom-aligned, the first pane-tag row top-aligned, the
two joined by the themed rule, rows between centred, and a `Tagbottom` band on
the last row flush with the window edge with the sub-cell strip beneath it
painted in the band's own colour instead of the page's.
- Files reload themselves on macOS. The tty shell, the SDL window and the
detached daemon all watched with `inotify` and therefore watched nothing off
Linux: an edit made outside pardes never reached the pane, and a PDF replaced
on disk kept rendering the old inode. They now share one mark/reconcile
transaction over two kernels — `inotify`, or a `kqueue` whose queue the hosts
wait on and poll 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 follows rename-over
saves, the file catches in-place writes, and the file filter is re-armed once
a rename-over has moved the inode. That is the same pair the AppKit host's
DispatchSources already used for the same reason.
- Snapshot captures are deltas against the previous capture in the same script,
and a scripted click may name a word (`press middle @Del 2`, `@Del#2` for the
second pane on a row, `@Save-2` for a column beside one) instead of a screen
column. Adding one builtin word to a tagline used to rewrite 78 goldens
(3,758 lines) and silently move seven scripts onto the wrong word: `tutor.snap`
had been clicking `Grep` and asserting a tutor pane, `tagbottomimage.snap`
clicked 176 columns from the `Del` it claimed to execute. Seven tests regained
their subject, the corpus dropped from 16,700 lines to 5,722, and the same
edit now moves 337 lines.
- `zig build snap -- --update` regenerates in parallel at the widest probe
settings and then verifies every golden it just wrote, instead of capturing
once, serially, and blessing whatever it saw: 77s to 41s, and a capture that
does not reproduce is reported rather than committed.
- `zig build unit-test -Dtest-filter=<substring>` runs one test. The whole
binary is 14s, so a one-line change used to cost the full run; the test
runner's own `--test-filter` was silently dropped by the build.
- A snapshot script covers the `Save` prompt for the first time: armed on a
`+New` scratch it draws on the message row, prefilled with the pane's own
directory, and submitting it turns the scratch into the file it names.
- `pardes --fs` serves acme's control filesystem over Linux FUSE: a directory
per pane holding `addr`, `body`, `ctl`, `data`, `errors`, `event`, `rdsel`,
`tag`, `wrsel`, `xdata`, plus `index`, `cons` and `new/` at the root. A
program that opens those files is an editor extension — no plugin API, no
interpreter. `--fs=<dir>` names the mount point instead of deriving one under
`$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`; every pane shell gets `PARDES_FS` and `PARDES_PANE`.
See docs/acme-fs.md and examples/acmefs/.
- While a script holds a pane's `event` file open, buttons 2 and 3 in that pane
are REPORTED to it instead of performed, so the words in that pane's tag are
the script's commands (acme's extension model). Keyboard Enter/Tab still
execute, so a scripted pane stays editable.
- Writing an event record back (`origin type q0 q1`) makes pardes perform the
Look or Exec it names — the same door acme has always had, and the reason
the mount is 0700.
- Version tracking: the compiled version is embedded from build.zig.zon and shown by Changelog.
- New builtins: Changelog, Newtty, and Joincol.
- Markdown tree-sitter highlighting, including nested fenced code blocks.
- `.patch` and `.diff` files are highlighted.
- Coloring dispatch keys off the buffer title.
- Opening a new file only splits into a new column when both panes would be at least 100 columns wide.
- Terminal ANSI colors render only in tty mode; normal mode is a plain editing
view, so an edit can never shift a shell row's colour.
- `New` and `Newcol` open an empty scratch buffer instead of a shell or a
temporary file. Its directory is inherited from the pane it was opened from.
- `Save` on a scratch asks for a path, prefilled with that inherited
directory, and the buffer becomes an ordinary file once written.
- `Save` reaches every pane that holds text of its own and leads its tagline:
a terminal ("Save New Newtty Del Filter") and an output buffer like
`+Search` ("Save New Newtty Del") as well as a file. Images and PDFs keep
the plain tail — their bytes on disk already are what they are.
- `Save` takes the path as an ARGUMENT (`Save notes.txt`, or a selection
chorded onto the word) and asks for one only when it was not given, the way
Find and Grep ask for a pattern. A relative path resolves against the
pane's own directory, with `.` and `..` normalized; a path that cannot be
made absolute is refused rather than written next to the process.
- Writing to a path never rewrites the pane: a terminal stays a terminal, an
output buffer keeps its rows and its place in the n/N ring, and an open file
keeps the file it has, so `Save <elsewhere>` is a copy and not a rename.
The scratch `+New` is still the one exception, becoming the file it names.
- A dropped pane's memory outlives its frame, so a pane pointer taken during
that frame stays valid until the next one repairs it.
- The core owns the event loop. Each platform is now a `Host` of optional
function pointers; an unimplemented method falls back to an in-process
default, so a host with no methods at all is still a complete pardes.
- Ctrl-V and Ctrl-Shift-V paste in a tty pane: the default register and the
system clipboard, typed at the program the way a terminal emulator pastes
(bracketed under mode 2004). A paste arriving from the desktop reaches the
shell instead of an edit buffer the pty cannot see.
- The default filesystem is pardes's own source, embedded from an allowlist
(src/source_manifest.zig): what a host with no file method reads, and what
the browser has always read. It replaced a build-time generator that embedded
every tracked .zig file.
- `zig build run-isolated` builds and runs `pardes-isolate`: the same source
with one comptime option, whose host supplies only the terminal. The
filesystem is not disabled in it, it is absent — the libc paths compile away.
- Typst highlighting: headings, `*bold*` spans, raw/code blocks and inline raw
spans, and `#`-prefixed function calls (including the sigil itself).
- Fenced Typst raw blocks with a language tag (e.g. ```` ```zig ````) get that
language's grammar injected, the same treatment markdown fenced blocks
already had.
- Markdown bold, italics and inline code spans are highlighted: pardes now
builds the markdown inline grammar, a second parser off the same dependency,
and re-parses the block grammar's `inline` nodes with it. Only the block
grammar was built before, so emphasis had no nodes to match.
- Escape in a PDF pane is the document's own cancel: it drops the mouse
selection and the search highlight overlay and stays where you were reading.
It used to run `Last`, which moved focus out of the pane and left every
following key going somewhere else. `Shift-Esc` is now the hop out — the same
chord that leaves a raw tty.
- `gj`/`gk` move one VISUAL line, following the automatic breaks of a
soft-wrapped body and keeping the goal column inside the row. `j`/`k` are
unchanged: whole file lines. With `Wrap` off a line is one visual row and the
two pairs are the same motion.
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