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OSC 5577 only works for programs that know slosh exists. The program
status protocol is the same idea written down for everybody, by ghostty's
author and implemented by ghostty and Rex, so a program that already
speaks it needs to know nothing about us:
printf '\033]7501;state=working:app=cargo:msg=YnVpbGRpbmc=\033\\'
Implemented *as well as* 5577, not instead of it. 5577 is a two-way
control channel -- buttons answer on the program's stdin, shaders are
refused with a reason -- and 7501 deliberately is not, so neither absorbs
the other. What 7501 buys is the programs we do not control.
The scanner becomes one pass for four things: 5577, 7501, OSC 133 ; A and
RIS. The last two are here because 7501 ties record lifetime to them -- a
new prompt or a full reset is how a stale `working` dies without a
heartbeat -- and because a pane should pay for that scan once. osc5577_fn
gives way to osc_scan_cbs_t.
Reports are all-or-nothing, which is the spec's rule: no state, an unknown
state, a broken limit, base64 that will not decode, a control character in
decoded text or a malformed id discards the whole report rather than
writing a partial one. A malformed *pair* is skipped and the rest parsed.
A pane keeps up to PANE_PS_MAX records with LRU eviction, and composes the
one line it has from them by precedence -- blocked, error, done, working,
idle -- resolving `app` from the nearest ancestor that has one, the way
the hierarchy is allowed to mean something. It lands in the slot 5577's
`status` already had, because every reader of a pane wants "what is this
doing", not "which protocol said so"; `panes` reports program_state,
program_kind, program_app and progress beside it, with -1 for a progress
nobody reported, since a bar drawn at 0% says something false.
The feature-detection reply is rate-limited here. Note for the next
re-vendor: upstream lib-vt implements 7501 too, newer than our pin, and
answers the support query itself through write_pty without rate-limiting
it. See "What upstream did" under D1 in DESIGN.md before swapping this
half of the file for GHOSTTY_TERMINAL_OPT_PROGRAM_STATUS.
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$SLOSH_PANE in the man page's environment list, next to SLOSH and
SLOSH_SESSION, and the scripting guide grows the section that follows from
it: read yourself with `capture`, build with `apply-layout focus:false`,
place with `move-pane beside`, and never read `focused` as "where do I
live". `pid` is written down as the answer for anything that cannot read
its own environment.
(Three roff \(em escapes had got into the markdown table; they are em
dashes like the rest of the file.)
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It was drawn in tab_status_busy, the colour of the words it sits beside, which
made one decision out of two. The words have to stay readable at a glance and
a mark does not: a theme may well want the glyph loud and the text calm -- or
the text in the accent and the mark a quiet dot -- and with one entry neither
is available without moving both.
Unset it follows tab_status_busy, derived after it and from whatever that
resolved to, named or derived, so nothing changes for anyone who does not ask
and no theme in contrib needs a line. `--dump-theme` writes both, like every
other colour the compositor draws.
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A status is a line of text, and a line of text cannot say whether it is still
true. "building 3/7" reads exactly the same while it builds and ten minutes
after it stopped, which is the one thing somebody reading it from another tab
wants to know -- and the only workaround available to a program was to write
the answer into the words and keep rewriting them.
So `busy`:
printf '\033]5577;1;status;make test\033\\'
printf '\033]5577;1;busy;1\033\\'
...
printf '\033]5577;1;busy;0\033\\'
A flag of its own rather than a field of `status`, because a status is the
*whole* payload after the verb -- `status;a;b;c` has always been the text
"a;b;c" -- so anything added to that line would change what every existing
sender means, including the five pi extensions D1 promises byte compatibility
to. Orthogonal, so a program can leave one line up and toggle the other;
anything but 0/false/no/off is on; `clear` takes both; and a pane whose program
has gone is never busy, whatever it last claimed, because a spinner turning
under a dead tab is a lie you keep looking at.
In a sidebar the row turns `tab_status_busy` -- the theme's accent, derived
like the other status colours, so no theme needs a line -- and takes a spinner
in the column `tab_bar_padding` was already holding blank, so nothing reflows
when a program starts or stops working. `busy_mark` is the frames, separated by
spaces: one frame is a static mark and costs nothing, several make it turn, and
only then does the session keep a frame clock -- via the same `animating` flag
an animated shader uses, so the cost lands only while such a row is actually
composed, and `""` drops the mark entirely and leaves the colour to say it.
The frame is a pure function of the clock, like every other pulse here, so two
clients attached to one session show the same one.
`panes` now reports `status` and `busy`, which is the scriptable half of the
same fact: what a pane says about itself, without reading its screen.
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`theme_name` is a line in a file, and a name in a list tells you nothing about
a colour scheme. So the picker previews by *applying*: moving the selection
puts that theme on, which is the only honest preview of a palette meant to
dress a whole session -- a swatch in a list would be a small lie about it, and
the session is already on screen behind the box.
It opens on the theme being worn rather than at the top, so the first arrow
press moves off it instead of silently changing the session, and the row your
config names says so, because "which one is this" and "which one comes back on
restart" are two different facts the moment you switch.
Escape puts back what was worn, since a picker that changed your session by
being looked at is one you stop opening. Enter keeps it for the session and
says as much. Only C-s writes `theme_name` into your config, which is the one
place in the UI where a keystroke edits it, so it is a deliberate chord and
the footer says so: "C-s keeps it, esc undoes".
Reuses the picker the finder, the palette and the projects list already wear
-- one machine with a subject, so the query, the selection, the mouse, the
frame and the scroll behaviour are the ones already tested. The list is
scanned on the keystroke, like the projects are: the moment it opens is the
moment it has to be right, and a theme written since the session started is
exactly the one being looked for. With nothing to list it toasts the directory
it looked in rather than opening an empty box.
`t` was free: tabs cycle on tab, and new-tab has had `c` since the first day.
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A 'The tab bar' section on the panes page: the sidebar, its four knobs,
the status rows under each tab, and the borrowed directory name for
unnamed tabs. The config page's knob table learns the tab_bar_* keys.
scripting.md and the driving-slosh skill stop underselling the status
verb: it was documented back when the pane's own frame was the only
place a status could appear, which made it decoration. With the
sidebar it is how a pane reports progress to somebody working in
another tab -- so say that, and say to keep it current and clear it
when the work is done.
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A pane image is re-emitted to the client as decoded RGBA, which for one
screenshot is ~4MB of base64 in a single indivisible message -- and
conn_send silently dropped anything that would overflow the 4MB outbox,
while push_graphics ignored the refusal and the model advanced anyway.
Everything stateful in that dropped frame was lost for good: the image
was marked sent (so its placements drew nothing, forever), and the
deletions rode out with it (so a placement the client had was never
revoked). Reported as screenshots in a recovered pi transcript parked
at a fixed spot on the screen, immune to scrolling and pane swaps --
those were placements whose deletion left with a dropped frame. The
1000x800 one could never be delivered at all: its transmission alone
was bigger than the cap.
So the frame is now transactional. Deletions queue and are repeated
every flush until gfx_commit() confirms the client heard them;
transmissions recorded in a frame are unwound by an undelivered commit
so they are sent again. A flush nobody commits counts as undelivered at
the next gfx_begin(), which is what the `graphics` control command is:
bytes rendered for a CLI, not the client. The server reports the
verdict and keeps the paint pending until it lands.
The outbox cap now bounds the backlog rather than backlog-plus-message,
so one big transmission on a drained queue always fits -- and that
surfaced a second way to lose: a queued image legitimately holds the
backlog over the cap until the client swallows it, and push_frame read
that as a dead client and closed the connection. The session
auto-detached every time a screenshot crossed the wire. A full outbox
is a client that is *behind*, not gone: push_frame now marks the screen
for a full repaint (the dropped diff means the client's cells are
unknown) and retries as POLLOUT drains the queue; a client that truly
left still shows up as a write error there.
The headless suite pins the owed-until-committed contract; the new
tests/live_graphics.py drives the real socket with a
bigger-than-the-cap image and a reader that stalls, and would have
caught both bugs: the flood must not detach, the transmission must
arrive whole, and a placement scrolled away must be deleted -- then
come back on scroll without a second copy of the pixels.
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Some 230 sentences hung their qualifications between dashes, and at that
density the tic reads as the writing's signature rather than a tool it
occasionally picks up. Each one is now the punctuation the sentence
actually wanted: a colon where the aside defines, parentheses where it
whispers, a comma where it barely pauses, a full stop where two thoughts
were pretending to be one. Definition lists and reference tables take
colons throughout.
Two double hyphens remain on purpose, both literal: the argv separator
in a shell example, and a table cell that means 'takes nothing'.
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Every C comment, commit message and generated config in this repo
writes the aside dash as a spaced double hyphen; the Markdown alone
used U+2014, some 220 of them. One spelling, and the ASCII one -- the
prose now matches the code it documents.
Mechanical (every occurrence was the spaced form, checked including
the one inside a code fence, where it was comment text), so the words
themselves are untouched.
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splash_ms and the project settings join the knobs table, the pane-state
ranking gains the floating it was missing, contrib/themes' seventh file is
named for what it is, the shader table's numbers are called examples with
the real omitted-value defaults beside them, the index links workspaces,
and the verb table learns splash.
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A dumped session quietly re-tiled its floats, which was the one data-loss
gap left in D22. dump-layout now records `floating=true x= y= w= h=` -- the
*wanted* rect, because intent is what survives a session and the next
screen's layout clamps it like any frame -- layout files declare the same
(linted: floating is a bool, x/y/w/h mean nothing without it), and a file
whose every pane floats self-heals through ensure_tiled: the top float
lands, the same rule closing the last tiled pane follows, no lint required.
save-workspace inherits all of it from the shared dumper.
`float` over the API takes x/y/w/h and then *places* rather than toggles --
a placement is a statement about where, not about whether -- floating the
pane first when it is tiled, re-placing when it already floats, with
omitted fields meaning "keep". The intent is stored exactly as asked: the
write-back rule is for hands, whose drags need the clamp to agree with the
eye; a script means what it typed.
And kitty graphics respect the stack. The cell compositor gets occlusion
free from paint order, but placements are sent after the diff and would
paint an image straight over a float covering it. Each pane's placements
are now clipped by the float rects above it -- every float for a tiled
pane, the higher-raised for a float -- cropping what one clean edge can
express (the pane-edge source-rectangle arithmetic aimed at another
clipper, including from the top and left, where the source origin moves and
the sub-cell offset is consumed) and suppressing what it cannot: a strip
across the middle or a corner overlap leaves a shape one placement cannot
say, and the image returns whole when the float moves. No z= needed --
clipping is the z-order, since nothing is ever allowed to overlap.
D22's "still owed" paragraph is paid and rewritten; M10 is fully checked.
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lib-vt tracks a hyperlink per cell and slosh dropped every one of them: the
client's terminal can only offer a link it was sent, so `ls --hyperlink`,
gcc diagnostics and friends silently lost theirs inside the session.
The link rides beside the cell -- cell_t is the shader ABI and a link is
not a colour -- as a plane of ids into an interned URI table, append-only
so an id in prev_link still means the same URI next frame (which is what
lets the diff compare ids instead of strings), and capped so a hostile pane
cannot grow it forever. URIs with control bytes are refused outright: they
are emitted verbatim inside an OSC, and a control byte in one is a way to
write escape sequences into the client's terminal. The diff wraps emitted
runs in OSC 8, closes what it opens before the frame ends, and treats a
link-only change as a change. Chrome painted over a link takes the link
with it, so a frame, modal or float across a URL is never clickable with
the pane's link; links survive scrollback with the text that carries them.
Plain-text URLs stay the outer terminal's own matcher, with the catch
documented in panes.md: under mouse capture Ghostty only offers links with
shift added to the gesture (shift+cmd hover/click), shift being its
capture escape. Wrapped URLs can never be regex-matched through a
multiplexer -- rows repaint as hard lines -- which is exactly what OSC 8
links, passing through whole, are for.
`snapshot format:"bytes"` returns the emitter's own output for a frame (a
second call is the delta): the model and the bytes are two different
things, and this codebase already paid once for asserting on one while the
other was wrong.
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sl0p + pty was error-prone to type and the zero made it worse; slosh
(slop + sh) is one syllable, impossible to typo, and slosh.foo is ours.
Mechanical rename everywhere it appears: binary, env vars (SLOSH,
SLOSH_SESSION, SLOSH_BIN, SLOSH_CONFIG), socket dir (/tmp/slosh-<uid>,
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/slosh), config path (~/.config/slosh), header guards,
src/sl0ppty.h -> src/slosh.h, contrib/sl0ppty-dev -> contrib/slosh-dev,
the driving-slosh skill, docs and tests. The sl0ppi fork references and
the sl0p theme stay: one is history, the other is the brand.
The rename surfaced a latent bug in test_osc5577: the hello-reply
answer always appeared on screen twice (ECHOCTL echo plus cat -v), but
a seven-character implementation name happened to wrap the second copy
across the 60-column boundary, so counting substrings in wrapped text
found one and passed for the wrong reason. A five-character name moved
the wrap and exposed it. The loop guard itself is correct -- with echo
off before the request there is exactly one reply -- so the test now
counts on de-wrapped text and tolerates the pane's own echo.
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A pane's name already outranks the title its program sets -- `pane_title` prefers
the name while there is one -- and that is the whole remedy for a program
announcing something it stopped meaning: an agent still spinning the summary of a
task it finished, a build script that titled itself once. The remedy was reachable
by double-clicking the title on somebody's screen, and from a layout file, but not
from the socket, while `set-purpose` next to it has taken `target:"pane"|"tab"` all
along.
`target` defaults to `tab`, which is what this verb has always meant. Two verbs
whose defaults differ is a smaller wrong than a verb that quietly changes its
subject under scripts already written against it. The refusals say `no such pane`
or `no such tab`, so a mistyped target shows up in the reply rather than as a label
that did not move.
The gesture now calls the same function, so the two ways in cannot disagree about
where a pane's name lives -- there is a test that a name set over the socket is the
name the double-click editor offers to edit.
Verified: eight checks in `tests/test_pane_title.py`. A pane named while its
program keeps setting OSC 2 titles keeps the name; clearing it hands the label back
to what the program calls itself *now*; `id: 0` is the focused pane and leaves the
other one alone; `set-name` with no target still renames the tab and leaves the
pane's title alone.
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`.agents/skills/driving-sl0ppty/SKILL.md`. The convention is
`.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` with YAML frontmatter -- already in this tree
under `vendor/libghostty-vt`, so it is not an invention -- and it means an agent
working in a checkout picks the skill up without being told, while a directory per
skill leaves room for adjuncts later. `contrib/README.md` and
`docs/scripting.md` say where it is and how to use it elsewhere: copy or symlink
the directory into wherever your agent keeps skills.
**Writing it turned up the reason there was no skill worth writing.** A pane is
told `SL0PPTY=1` and nothing else, so a program inside one knows it is in a
session and cannot find out *which* -- `ls` lists them all and none of them is
labelled "the one you are in". So the whole most valuable case, an agent driving
the session it is running in, was guesswork. The server now sets
`SL0PPTY_SESSION` and `SL0PPTY_BIN` in its own environment, which every pane
inherits through fork: one place, no signatures threaded, and unset under
`--script`, which has no socket to name. `SL0PPTY_BIN` is read from
`/proc/self/exe` rather than `argv[0]`, and exists because the failure it prevents
is the one I hit writing the examples -- a session started from a build tree, and
`sl0ppty` not on the pane's `PATH`, so the skill's own commands did not run.
What the skill actually teaches, none of which `docs/scripting.md` says because a
reference is not allowed to have opinions:
- Work belongs in a pane that was **given** a command, not typed into somebody's
shell. Then `alive` and `exit_code` off `panes` are how you wait, and the output
survives the program (D14) so it is still there to read.
- There is **no wait primitive over the socket**: `settle` is headless-only, and
`deadline` is about repaints and says nothing about program output. Poll.
- `purpose` is the handle. Titles change underneath you; a declared purpose cannot
be relabelled by the program in the pane, which is what makes it safe to address.
- `snapshot` is the whole composited session, and only what is on screen. Cut a
pane out with its `content_*` rect; do not expect scrollback.
- **The echoed command line matches your own marker.** `echo DONE` puts `DONE` on
screen twice. Count, or use a marker you did not send.
- Write `\e`, never `\033`: the unescaper takes `\0` first, so `\033` arrives as
NUL followed by `33` and nothing complains. That bug was live in this repo's own
test suite until last week.
- A program in a pane can draw its own status and real buttons with OSC 5577 and
read the click off its stdin, which is how it asks a question instead of printing
a prompt and hoping.
- Close what you made; do not `quit` a session you did not start.
`tests/test_skill.py` is the part that keeps it true. A skill is documentation an
agent acts on without a human reading it first, so a stale one is worse than a
missing one: a wrong verb is a failed tool call somebody else has to debug. Every
verb the file names is sent to a live session and must not answer `unknown cmd`;
every `panes` field its central recipe polls must exist; the environment it
promises is read out of a real pane; the recipe itself is run end to end and must
report exit status 3 with its output still on screen. It also greps the file for
paths out of a home directory, because "plug and play" is a property somebody has
to keep.
That test found `close-pane` in the draft, which is the *keybinding* action name --
the verb is `close`. Exactly the class of error the test exists for, found before
anybody's agent ran it.
Verified: 1795 checks, all green, 43 of them in `tests/test_skill.py`. Then the
skill's recipe run verbatim against a real session -- tagged pane, polled to
`alive:false`, `exit status: 3`, `compiling`/`built`/`exited: status 3` still
readable -- and from inside a pane, `session=agentdemo bin=/…/sl0ppty` and a
`building 3/7` status drawn in its own frame.
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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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Audited every page against the source and the binary rather than against my
memory of it. Eight pages changed; the lists were all fine and the *numbers* were
all wrong.
Checked mechanically, and each of these came out complete: all 37 action names,
all 28 control verbs, all 9 shader names, the expression language's 10 variables,
2 constants and 7 functions, the 8 pane states, every knob the dump prints, every
OSC verb, every internal link and anchor, and every page's place in `docs/nav`.
Every fenced `kdl` block was run through `--check`; every `{"cmd":...}` in an
example is a verb that exists.
What was stale:
- **`make` does not build.** The default goal is `help`, so the install block --
`make vendor`, `make`, `make test` -- never produced a binary. It says `make
all` now, timed at 5.5s from clean rather than "about a second".
- **700-odd checks in about eight seconds** is now 1,500-odd in about thirteen,
plus 260 from the C unit tests, which the sentence did not count at all.
- **About 10k lines of C** is 15k. (10,799 of those are neither blank nor a
comment, which is presumably where the old figure came from.)
- **Seven chrome presets** are thirteen, and the six new ones use `sin` and `TAU`
-- so the perimeter section gained the angle idiom it now depends on, and its
"two things fall out of it" became three.
- **`--check`'s example transcript showed two errors nobody can produce any
more**: `bad prefix: C-a` and `bad key: ←`. Both inputs became *valid* -- `C-a`
when the chord parser learned the notation the cheatsheet prints, and `←` when
it learned the arrow glyphs, precisely so a chord copied off the screen parses.
Replaced with a transcript I generated, and a note that the problems go to
stderr, which matters for the pre-commit hook the page suggests.
- **`bell_indicator`** was a real knob documented nowhere.
- **"There is no key for this yet"** about moving a pane between tabs, two commits
after the keys and the drag landed.
- The cheatsheet's `+N more` line, the finder's `C-u`, and `tab_id` in a pane
report were all real and unmentioned.
Verified: the whole suite green, `make docs` builds nine pages, and the changed
pages read correctly in a browser -- including the new transcript and the `>` `<`
row of the key table.
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sl0ppty cmd '{"cmd":"move-pane","id":3,"tab":2}'
sl0ppty cmd '{"cmd":"move-pane","id":3,"tab":2,"dir":"rows"}'
sl0ppty cmd '{"cmd":"move-pane","id":3,"tab":0,"name":"logs"}'
The mechanism only. There is no key and no gesture for it yet -- that is the next
conversation, and guessing at it now would mean building the wrong one twice.
**The pane keeps running.** Measured, not assumed: `pid=3062557` before the move
and `pid=3062557` after, in a different tab, with its scrollback intact and still
answering what it is sent. That is the whole reason to move a pane rather than open
one where you wanted it and close this one.
It is tree surgery and it reuses the surgery that was already here. `place_beside`
is the second half of `split_node_with` -- everything after "make the leaf" --
lifted out so that a leaf which already exists somewhere else can be grafted the
same way, flat sibling or new split, on either side. It takes the tab rather than
`cur(a)` now, because replacing a root has to land on the right one and `cur(a)` was
only right while the sole caller was splitting the pane you were looking at.
`detach_leaf` is `close_leaf` without the funeral.
Three decisions worth naming:
**The destination is a tab id, not an index.** A tab whose last pane leaves has
nothing to be, so it is removed -- and every index after it moves. An id survives
that; an index quietly means a different tab. The move re-finds the destination by
id *after* the removal for exactly this reason, and there is a test that empties a
tab and checks the pane landed where it was sent.
**A move drops what the old tab thought about the pane** -- a zoom naming it, and
its minimised flag. Both are the tab's opinion and not the pane's: carried across,
the first zooms a pane that has left and the second files the arrival in a strip
nobody asked for.
**It does not follow the pane.** Which tab you are looking at is a question about
intent, and this is the mechanism; `move-pane` answers with the tab id so a caller
can select it if that is what it meant. "Into a tab of its own" is its own call
rather than new-tab-then-move, because a pane that is the only thing in its tab
would otherwise have its tab removed from under the new one, and the order those
two happen in is precisely the bug.
Verified: `tests/test_move_pane.py`, 25 checks -- the pane still running and still
talking afterwards, placement beside and under the destination's focus, focus
landing on the arrival, the emptied tab, a tab of its own, every refusal (no such
pane, no such tab, already there, already alone), the dropped zoom and minimise,
and after three moves a layout with no overlaps that dumps and rebuilds as itself.
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chrome> include "contrib/chrome/heartbeat.kdl"
heartbeat.kdl: 1 chrome, 0 content
chrome> shaders {
...> tint where="chrome" color="#ff5fd7" amount="abs(sin(t / 5))"
...> dim where="content" amount=80
...> }
1 chrome, 1 content
Both of those were errors an hour ago, and the second one was my fault twice
over: `:paste` printed `include "..."` and printing something you cannot type
back is a prompt lying about its own output. Pasting it answered `unexpected
argument for include`, and `load "..."` answered the same about `load`.
So the grammar is now the config's, all of it: an entry, several with `;`, an
entry with its own `where=`, a whole `shaders { }` block over as many lines as it
takes, `include "f.kdl"`, `load f`. There is a test that reads `:paste`'s block
off the screen, clears the pane, types it back line by line and compares the
cells -- round-tripping is the property, not a nice-to-have.
**The text is a document.** What it says replaces both chains, exactly as naming
`shaders { }` in a config replaces the block rather than adding to it, and an
entry's `where=` decides which rect it lands on. That drops a rule I invented last
week -- "one chain, one rect", which refused an entry that named the other one --
because it made the prompt's mode a law rather than a default and made a two-rect
block, the thing `:paste` prints, impossible to paste back. The prompt now keeps
the document and sends all of it, so a line aimed at the frame leaves the contents
alone, and the reply says `1 chrome, 1 content` rather than `ok`: with routing
visible, the counts are the answer worth reading.
`route_entries` is the one place routing is decided now -- config file, preset
file, typed line, same function. `config_parse_chain_doc` takes the wrapper or the
bare entries, because both are things a config contains and therefore both are
things somebody will paste.
Still nothing in the prompt parses KDL. A file goes by path; a pasted block goes
via a temporary file, since an OSC payload cannot carry a newline -- a control byte
ends the sequence, by the spec -- and joining lines with `;` would need exactly the
comment-and-quote scanner I refused to write. The only syntax the script looks at
is counting braces to know whether you have finished typing, and an empty line
gives up on that.
One hint, for the mistake that started this: when the session says `unknown
shader`, the prompt adds `(a file? :load <path>, or include "<path>")`. After the
fact rather than before, so a plugin's shader name is never second-guessed.
Verified: `tests/test_shader_repl.py` is 41 checks -- every input shape, the
multi-line paste and giving up on one, the round trip, the hint -- and
`tests/test_inband_shaders.py` gained the document rule in both directions,
including that a document naming only the frame takes the contents pass off. Full
clean suite green.
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chrome> :load sine-comet
sine-comet.kdl: 1 chrome, 0 content
chrome> :paste
// sine-comet.kdl
include "/home/user/dev/sl0ppty/contrib/chrome/sine-comet.kdl"
A path, or the bare name of anything in `chrome/` or `shaders/` beside the
script, from any directory. Entries land wherever their own `where=` says, so one
file can fill both chains and a preset goes where its author put it. Tab completes
filenames after `:load` and vocabulary everywhere else.
**The prompt does not parse the file.** I started writing the scanner -- find the
`shaders {` block, count braces, strip `//` outside quoted strings so that
`color="#ff0033"` and `t / 8` survive -- and stopped, because that is a second
reader of a format that already has one, and the two would disagree exactly where
comments meet strings. Instead the session gets the path and reads it with the
parser it already has: `config_parse_chain_file`, built on the same
`parse_shader_entry` a config file goes through. Anything that is not a top-level
`shaders { }` block is ignored, so a whole `config.kdl` can be handed over and
only its shaders apply.
The alternative was regenerating all 45 presets into something easier to read from
Python. That would have cost them what makes them useful: each one is a config
fragment today -- pasteable, `include`-able, checkable with `sl0ppty --check`, and
loaded as a config by `tests/test_chrome_presets.py`. A format only the prompt can
read would be a fourth thing to keep in step.
`:paste` after a load answers with an `include` line rather than the file's thirty:
the file is on disk, it is already the block, and reprinting it scrolled the pane
you were looking at -- which is how I noticed.
Both chains are built beside the live ones and swapped in together, so a file that
goes wrong half way leaves the pane as it was rather than wearing the half that
parsed. Each compiled expression is matched to the chain whose shader points at it
before either is installed; freeing a program the other chain still uses is the one
bug here that would not appear until the next repaint.
Verified: nine checks in `tests/test_shader_repl.py` -- a preset by bare name, a
file with both rects going to both chains, the three ways to be wrong (no such
file, no `shaders { }` block, no argument), what `:paste` says afterwards, and tab
completion. Then all 45 shipped presets loaded by name in one session: none
refused.
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printf '\033]5577;1;shader;\033\\' # from the program
sl0ppty cmd '{"cmd":"clear-shaders","id":0}' # from outside it
bind "z" "clear-shaders" # from the keyboard
`app_clear_pane_shaders` empties both of a pane's chains and says whether
there was anything there, which is what lets a key answer "shaders cleared"
or "no shaders on this pane" instead of maybe having done something.
In-band it is not a new verb: naming no rect means all of them. `shader;`
sits under `shader;chrome;` and `shader;content;` as the degenerate case of
"which rect", so a program puts a pane back in one exchange and cannot leave
it half done. `contrib/shader-repl`'s `:both` now uses that rather than two.
**None of the three is gated on `in_band_shaders`.** A chain outlives the
setting that allowed it -- paint a pane, then turn the setting off, and the
paint is still there, because a chain belongs to the pane and not to the file
(there is a test that reloads with it off and clears anyway). A way out that
the setting can take away is not a way out. The operator path matters for the
same reason: the program that made a pane unreadable is not always in a state
to put it back.
They clear what the *pane* set. The config's chains and the session's own
dimming are not this pane's doing and are derived every frame anyway.
The action is bound to nothing, like `scroll-up`: it is in the palette, which
is what the palette is for, and the docs say to bind it if you leave the
setting on. Which is where a second bug turned up -- the palette truncates a
label at 26 characters, so "undo this pane's own shaders" read as "undo this
pane's own shade" on screen. Renamed to fit, and `tests/test_palette.py` now
checks every label against the column, since nothing failed for that: it just
looked like a typo in front of someone.
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printf '\033]5577;1;shader;chrome;tint color="#ff5fd7" amount="abs(t / 8 % 510 - 255)"\033\\'
The field after `shader` is which rect -- `content` or `chrome` -- and the
rest of the payload is a chain in exactly the syntax a `shaders { }` block
uses, taken verbatim so that `;` can go on separating entries. Empty text
clears that chain. The session answers on the program's stdin, `shader-reply;ok`
or `shader-reply;error;bad amount for tint: ...`, because a prototyping loop
that gets no answer cannot tell a typo from a build without the feature.
`contrib/shader-repl` is the prompt this exists for: type a chain, watch the
pane, and `:paste` prints what you have as a config block. Both ends are the
same parser, so what you arrive at is what you can keep -- verified by
pasting `:paste`'s output into a file, linting it, and checking the frame
comes out the same colour.
**D13 said this was impossible on purpose, and the reasoning stands**: a
program that can restyle the session it happens to be running in is a hazard,
and `cat hostile.txt` should not dim your panes. But *impossible* was the
wrong shape for it -- editing a file, saving, looking and guessing again is
slow enough that shaders go unwritten. So it takes `in_band_shaders true`,
one line of consent, and it is scoped to the pane that asked: its own two
chains, never its neighbour's, never what the config said about anyone else.
There is a test for the neighbour.
Each chain owns the programs its expressions compiled to, and is swapped in
whole, so a chain that turns out not to read leaves the pane looking like it
did rather than half-restyled. Measured: 1,800 replacements of an animated
chain, resident size flat after the first pass.
Also here, because it is the same paint order: the chrome chain now sits
between the config's and policy's, exactly where the content chain does.
Dead code out -- `app_shade_add`/`app_shade_clear`/`app_shade_count` had no
callers and their comment claimed the opposite of what this commit does.
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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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