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An install subsection alongside macOS and Linux, and a page under
Inside for the rest: how to build it, what changes about running it
(%ComSpec% panes, sessions in %LOCALAPPDATA%), and the reasoning the
code can only gesture at in comments.
The three traps are written down in full, because each one presents as
something other than what it is and cost real time: a pane with a title
and no body (the child inherited slosh's stdout rather than the
pseudoconsole), a pane that stays alive after `exit` (a ConPTY's output
pipe belongs to the console, not the child, so the read never ends), and
an editor refusing a path that plainly exists (cmd.exe and
CommandLineToArgvW disagree about what \" means, and separately the CRT
accepts a mixed-separator path where a GUI dialog will not).
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Makefile.macos was kept out of git because it named a team, a person and
a mac. But almost all of it is mechanism -- build, sign, zip, notarize,
staple, unlock a headless keychain -- and that is the project's, not the
releaser's. Keeping the whole file out to protect four values meant the
one machine that had it was the only place a release could be cut from,
and that nobody could read how signing worked without being handed it.
So the split is inverted. Makefile.macos, the builder doc and the scripts
are tracked; macos-release.mk holds TEAM_ID, SIGNER and BUILDER and is
the only thing gitignored. macos-release.mk.example is the template.
The identity strings are now assembled from SIGNER and TEAM_ID rather
than written out, which means an unconfigured checkout composes
"Developer ID Application: ()" -- plausible, wrong, and diagnosed only
by codesign a minute into a build. require-identity and require-builder
catch it before anything runs and name the file to create; `help` prints
"(unset)" rather than the empty shape.
macos-remote-build now pushes macos-release.mk instead of Makefile.macos.
That is the better arrangement anyway: the builder gets its pipeline from
git at the commit being released, so a release is signed by the flow
belonging to it and not by whatever the laptop was carrying.
MACOS-BUILDER.md was in the same position -- local, and referenced by a
file that is now tracked -- so it becomes docs/macos-release.md with the
certificate name and notary key id replaced by their shapes.
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A **project** is a directory on disk. A **workspace** is the tab it occupies in a
session. Two words because they are two things, and conflating them is how a
session grows a second source of truth about what it is looking at.
`project_roots "~/dev" "~/work" depth=2` is scanned for subdirectories holding a
`sl0ppty.layout.kdl` -- or a `.git`, which is the project that has not said what
it needs yet. Both markers, because a `~/dev` of forty checkouts and three layout
files is a picker with three rows, and `C-a W` is how a project stops being the
second kind. A directory that *is* a project is never descended into, so the walk
stays off `node_modules` without anyone writing a rule about `node_modules`.
`C-a w` is the third subject of the one picker (D19): the finder searches what
this session has, this lists what is on disk, including the projects with no
workspace open yet, which is most of them and the whole point.
**Identity is the tab's `purpose`** -- `project:<name>.<hash8>` of the resolved
path, the shape D3 already published -- so there is no second field to disagree
with it, membership is a string comparison, and a dumped session restores it for
free because a dump already writes tab purposes and applying one already locks
them (D8). Hashed on the *path* rather than the name, so two worktrees of one repo
are two workspaces, which is what they are. A tab whose layout gave it a purpose
of its own keeps it and is simply not a member: overwriting a declared purpose is
the one thing D8 forbids, and the reply counts the ones it left alone.
**Nothing watches the filesystem.** The list is derived when it is asked for --
one `readdir` per root and two `stat`s per entry -- and an answer nobody
remembered cannot be stale, which is a promise no watcher can make on a bind
mount. The picker scans once as it opens, not per frame, because `draw_picker`
asks for its rows every frame and a `readdir` per repaint is a filesystem walk at
120Hz. Opening is idempotent (`sl0ppi up`'s property): the same request twice is
one workspace, focused, and the answer says which branch it took.
Four things had to be true before `save-workspace` could exist, and none of them
were.
**A relative `cwd=` in a layout file now means that file's own directory** -- the
rule `include` already followed for configs, applied to the other half of the same
syntax. A project's layout could previously only name absolute directories, which
are right on exactly one machine and wrong in a worktree of the same repo.
**A dump can be asked for one tab, against a base.** `dump-layout` takes `tab`,
`relative_to` and `suspend`. Writing it also turned up a bug: `dump_node` asked
`cur(a)->focus` whichever tab it was writing, so a dump of three tabs restored the
focus of one.
**A dump records what a pane is *running*.** `label` only ever knew what a layout
said, so a pane you split and typed `npm run dev` into had nothing to say for
itself and came back as a bare shell -- which made arranging a project and writing
it down two jobs instead of one. The kernel knows what the label does not: a pty
has a foreground process group, and that group is by definition the job that owns
the terminal, so the answer is read the way `live_cwd` already reads
`/proc/PID/cwd`. Three things are deliberately not commands: a shell at a prompt
(its group is the pane's own, and `command="zsh"` on every idle pane restores a
session where each shell runs inside a shell), a background job (it does not own
the terminal), and an ephemeral pane. A declared label still outranks a live
process, because it survives the program exiting (D14) and re-saving must not
degrade `npm run dev` into whatever the process tree looks like this minute. argv
is joined with shell quoting, since `command=` goes through `/bin/sh -c`.
**A pane from a split starts where the pane it came out of stands**, not where the
server was launched. Wrong on its own, and it had been quietly writing an absolute
path to somebody else's directory into every saved project.
A saved project defaults to `suspend="commands"`: the pane running this morning's
dev server is written asleep, because a *project's* layout is a statement of shape
and a *session's* dump is a statement of fact. Over the API, replacing a layout
that is already there is refused without `force`; from the keyboard `C-a W`
replaces and says `replaced`, because a key cannot pass a flag and the file is
committed text whose diff is the review.
`--check` now holds a layout to the layout schema instead of answering with the
name of the flag that reads one. `unknown pane property: cmd`, `split is cols or
rows`, `purpose is ignored on a pane with panes in it` -- the mistakes a layout can
make that still parses. The lists live beside `build_pane` and a test greps for
every prop the loader reads, the arrangement that keeps `KNOWN_TOP` honest.
**`C-a P` sets a pane's purpose**, a third subject on the editor the pane title and
the tab label already share. A purpose is what tooling finds a pane by, and it
could only be declared by a layout or set over the socket -- so every pane anybody
arranged by hand had none, and a layout dumped from one was a shape with no tags in
it. Typed by an operator it counts as declared (D8: "a layout or an operator").
Clearing one now *unlocks* it: a lock held over an empty string was the one state
nothing could escape. `set-purpose` also reads `id: 0` as the focused pane now,
which every sibling verb already did.
Two gaps found on the way, both reachable only over the socket before:
**`C-a X` closes a tab.** It used to be a side effect -- press `x` once per pane
and the tab evaporates when the last one goes -- so four panes meant four presses
and counting. It says how many panes went, since most of them were not the one you
were looking at, and on the last tab it refuses and points at `q`: a key that
closes a tab four times and ends your session the fifth is one you cannot press
without counting first. No `✕` on the tabs, for the arithmetic that took the
per-pane `+` away.
**`scrollback` is a number we choose.** D4's "free from lib-vt" was true of the
machinery and quietly false of the size: handed no limit, lib-vt picks its own --
10,000 *bytes*, which measured at 622 lines of an 80-column pane, less than one
`make` run. `scrollback` is lines, defaulting to the 10,000 every other
multiplexer settled on, and `scrollback_bytes` is the ceiling it runs into,
because either limit can be reached first and neither can see what the other
depends on. Measured at 10,000 lines of styled output: ~6 MB at 80 columns (the
ceiling never bites), ~15 MB at 200 (2% of the lines), ~32 MB at 400 (half of
them). No `unlimited`, deliberately: the ceiling is per pane, and a negative is
refused rather than wrapped into eighteen quintillion lines. Read when a pane is
created, so it applies to the next pane you open -- same rule as `shell`, because
shrinking a pane's history retroactively throws away output somebody is reading.
`--project-root` was considered and dropped: the config is the one place projects
are declared, and tests pin a config like every other config-driven feature.
Verified: 1752 checks, all green. 90 in `tests/test_workspaces.py` (the two
markers, depth without descending into a project, two worktrees as two
workspaces, idempotent open, the honoured-purpose count, the save/close/open round
trip byte-for-byte, the set-up-by-hand-and-write-it-down flow, the picker, and
every verb's bare form); 53 in `tests/test_portable_layouts.py` (relative and
absolute `cwd=`, text having no base, per-tab focus, the four `suspend` words,
captured commands, an idle shell and a background job captured as nothing, spaces
surviving the round trip, label precedence, and the checker's lists not going
stale); 21 in `tests/test_purpose_editor.py`; 14 in `tests/test_scrollback.py`; 5
more in `tests/test_tabs.py`.
`tests/test_osc5577.py` had a vacuous check: `\033` through the driver's unescaper
is NUL + "33", so "a pane cannot relabel a declared purpose" passed without the
sequence ever arriving. It uses `emit_cmd` now and has a positive control that the
same sequence lands once the purpose is cleared.
Three cheatsheet tests were pinned to terminal sizes that exactly fitted the old
sheet, which four new bindings pushed past. They now ask for room; truncation has
its own test.
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contrib/gen-docs renders docs/ into a static site: one file of stdlib
Python and one stylesheet, no toolchain, no package manager, no npm. Same
argument as src/kdl.c being a hand-rolled KDL subset rather than a
library -- the input is ours, we know exactly which constructs it uses,
and a docs build that needs a lockfile is a docs build nobody runs.
What the Markdown subset understands is what docs/ actually contains:
headings (with anchors), paragraphs, fenced code, pipe tables, lists one
level deep, blockquotes, rules, `code`, bold, italic, links. Anything
else is escaped and passed through as text. A construct nobody uses is
not supported on purpose: it would be untested code pretending to be a
feature.
The layout is a sidebar of sections from docs/nav, the page, and its own
headings down the right; prev/next chains the nav order; a link to
another page is rewritten to its rendered page, so the same Markdown
reads correctly on a forge and on the site. The colours are the session's
own default theme, so the docs look like the thing they document, and the
light variant follows the reader's system preference rather than a toggle
nobody would find. Zero JavaScript -- the narrow-screen menu is a
checkbox.
Two things came out of looking at it in a browser rather than trusting
the HTML.
The hero diagram was hand-drawn and its lines were 78 and 79 columns
long, which is visible. It is generated from a real session now -- three
panes, a layout file, a text snapshot -- so it is exactly what the
program draws. Terminal art also needs tighter leading and a font whose
box drawing joins, so a fence with box characters in it and no language
is emitted as art rather than code and styled for that. Detected rather
than declared, because the alternative is a marker on every fence and one
of them getting forgotten. (Vertical rules still break between lines in
a browser: the glyph does not fill its em box, and no amount of CSS
changes that. Widths line up, which is the part that matters.)
The narrow-screen menu opened over a page that showed through underneath
it: as a grid child taken out of flow it kept its content height, so
`bottom: 0` did nothing. It has an explicit height now.
tests/test_docs.py checks both jobs. The site: every page in the nav is
rendered, carries the whole sidebar, is marked as current on its own
page, chains prev/next, and no internal link in the output points at a
file that is not there. The subset: each construct, and the one that
matters most -- markup inside a code span is not markup, because half of
these docs are shader expressions full of asterisks. A page missing from
docs/nav fails the build, and so does a nav entry with no file: an
unreachable page whose only symptom is its absence is the failure mode a
hand-written nav has.
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The README was 331 lines and had become a manual with a title. Everything
in it was true and most of it was the wrong thing to hand somebody who
has just arrived: five pages of shader expression semantics before they
have split a pane.
So the front page is 60 lines -- what it is, install, run, where the docs
are, and six bullets on what is actually different about it -- and the
detail moved into docs/, nine pages that each answer one question:
index.md what it is, install, run, where to go
keys.md the leader, every default, rebinding, direct binds
panes.md splitting, resizing, the mouse, dead panes, small terminals
config.md the file, live reload, include, themes, the knobs
shaders.md the passes, the built-ins, the expression language
chrome.md where="chrome", channel, since, the perimeter trick
layouts.md a session as a file, and writing one back out
scripting.md the control socket, OSC 5577, headless
design.md the two decisions, and a map of the source
docs/nav holds the order and the grouping and nothing else -- titles come
from each page's own heading, so a renamed page cannot end up with two
names. It is what the site generator will read.
Reference material that only existed in code comments is written down for
the first time: every action that can be bound (including the two with no
default key, which is what the palette is for), every control verb, the
built-in shaders with what each takes, the pane-state ranking, and the
layout file's shape.
Two things I got wrong on the first pass and fixed before committing: the
docs linked repo files through github.com URLs for a project whose remote
is a private git server, so those are inline paths now; and the README
advertised `make docs`, which does not exist yet. It will in the next
commit, and it can be advertised then.
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