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* path: a directory ends at either separator on WindowsPeter Geissler2026-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Two places split a path by hand, both with strrchr(path, '/'), both falling back to "." when there was none: include_path() in config.c and watch_config() in server.c. On Windows "none" is the ordinary case. `SLOSH_CONFIG=C:\Users\you\slosh\config.kdl` is how a person writes it, and a path that has been near a native API comes back all backslashes whatever it started as. So an include resolved against "." -- `cannot open ./themes/t.kdl` -- and, worse and quietly, the config watcher watched "." too. Not the config's directory: the current directory of whatever started the session. Hot reload did not fail, it watched somewhere else and waited. Saving your config did nothing at all, with no error to go looking for. The default path escaped this by accident. slosh builds it as `C:\Users\you/.config/slosh/config.kdl` -- mixed, because a literal joined to $HOME always is -- and that one embedded '/' is what strrchr found. It worked for the path slosh writes and not for the one a user does. Both callers now use path_dir(), which learns to stop at a backslash too, and server.c takes path_base() for the other half rather than keeping its own copy of the arithmetic. Windows-only: a backslash is a legal character in a POSIX file name, and splitting on it there would invent a directory out of a file called `a\b`. path_dir() also keeps the separator when what is left would be a bare drive, because `C:\config.kdl` lives in `C:\` and `C:` names the current directory on drive C, which is a different place. Verified on the Windows box with a fully backslashed SLOSH_CONFIG: --check passes, the include loads, and editing the config reloads the running session. Watching a second directory is still unreliable; that is the watcher's own bug and the next commit.
* path: an absolute path does not always start with a slashPeter Geissler2026-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `include "C:/themes/t.kdl"` on Windows did not fail to find the file. It found a different one, or rather looked for it: absoluteness was tested as `path[0] == '/'`, a drive letter is not that, so the path was read as relative and joined to the including file's directory. The result was cannot open C:/Users/you/cfgA/C:/Users/you/cfgB/t.kdl which at least says what happened. A layout's `cwd="C:/srv/api"` took the same turn through path_resolve() and said nothing at all -- the pane started in the wrong directory, which is the failure this file's own header comment is about. Windows spells absolute three ways and all three now count: rooted on the current drive (`\dir`), rooted on a named one (`C:\dir`, `C:/dir`), and a UNC share. A drive letter has to be followed by a separator to qualify, because `C:file` is relative to the current directory *of that drive* -- a real thing, and not one we can resolve for anyone. Windows-only, deliberately. `C:` is an ordinary file name on POSIX and a path beginning with one is relative there, so reading it as a drive would break the platform that works in order to fix the one that does not.
* ctrl_d_exits: Ctrl-D at a prompt, where the tty cannot do itPeter Geissler2026-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Windows has no VEOF. The console driver does not know the character, so ^D arrives at cmd.exe and PowerShell as an ordinary keystroke and they ignore it -- it even echoes, which is how you find out: the line reads `echo hello^D`. The one key that closes a pane on every other platform does nothing at all, and closing a pane becomes a word you have to type. That you can type `exit` instead is the tell: the intent was never ambiguous, only unspoken. So slosh speaks it. What goes to the pane is the word, not a signal and not a close from outside -- the shell runs its own cleanup, returns its own status, and keep_dead decides what is left behind, all three of which reaching past it would skip. It is also what the user would have typed, so there is nothing new to explain. The knob is what makes it honest, because a wrong guess costs a pane. It fires only with the shell itself in the foreground (a program that is running may want the EOF for itself -- `cat` reading to end is the whole job), only on the primary screen (in an editor or a pager ^D is half a page down, and the alternate screen is the pane stating that rather than us matching process names), and only on an empty line (POSIX sends EOF there; what it does not do is discard what you typed). The line is an estimate. The shell's editor is on the far side of a pty, so pane_send_key counts what it forwarded since the last Enter. Editing it does not model -- a recalled history entry, ^U, completion -- leaves the count too high, which forgets to exit. That is the direction to be wrong in; the other one throws away a half-typed command. Default true on Windows, false on POSIX, where the line discipline already does this and does it properly: ^D there is also EOF for `cat` and every REPL, none of which is ours to intercept. A knob rather than an #ifdef so the guards are the same code everywhere and can be tested where the test suite runs -- test_ctrl_d.py turns it on and drives all four decisions, plus the case that does exit. Telling trapped from forwarded needs a program that reports what it received: on POSIX a forwarded ^D also ends an idle shell, and looking for the word `exit` cannot separate them either, because bash prints `exit` itself on EOF. Verified on the Windows box as well, where it is the default: ^D at an idle cmd.exe prompt takes the pane (and with it the session, having no panes left), `more` in the foreground keeps its own EOF, and a half-typed line survives with the line still on screen.
* windows: a native port, on ConPTY and AF_UNIXPeter Geissler2026-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | slosh builds and runs on Windows 10/11, x86-64 and ARM64, as one exe with no runtime dependency beyond the OS: panes, splits, tabs, detachable sessions, the config file and its live reload, the control socket, the mouse. The port is a compatibility layer rather than a fork. compat/win holds stub <poll.h>, <sys/socket.h>, <termios.h> and friends that redirect to include/compat_win.h, which is force-included ahead of every translation unit -- so the existing sources keep their POSIX includes and their POSIX call sites, and the platform differences are answered in one place. Two decisions carry most of it. Everything the event loop waits on is a socket. On POSIX a pty master, an inotify descriptor and a unix socket are all file descriptors, so one poll() covers them; Windows has no such union, and WSAPoll waits on SOCKETs and nothing else. Rather than rewrite server.c's loop around WaitForMultipleObjects -- which caps at 64 objects and cannot express POLLOUT -- each non-socket source gets a pump thread that copies it into one end of a loopback socketpair. The loop is then the POSIX one unchanged, and only what sits behind the descriptor differs. Socket descriptors are tagged rather than guessed: a wrapped SOCKET comes back as SL_SOCK_BASE + slot, so read, write, close and poll can tell a socket from a CRT descriptor with certainty instead of inferring it from the numeric range. That is why socket() and accept() are shimmed too -- an untagged descriptor escaping into the loop is the one failure mode this scheme has, and it is worth closing completely. Three things bit hard enough to be worth naming. A pseudoconsole does not stop the child inheriting your stdio. CreateProcess copies the parent's standard handles into the child when STARTF_USESTDHANDLES is absent, and those win. With slosh's own stdout redirected -- a pipe under ssh, a file under --script, a log under the daemon -- the shell wrote its banner into slosh's output instead of into the pane, and the pane had a correct title (ConPTY emits that itself) over an empty body. The three handles are cleared for the duration of the call, leaving the child nothing to inherit. A ConPTY never reports EOF. The output pipe belongs to the pseudoconsole, not to the child, so it stays open after the child exits and pane_pump()'s read() -- the entire mechanism by which a pane learns its program is gone -- never returns 0. A pane whose shell had been told `exit` sat there looking alive forever. So the exit is waited for on the process handle, and ClosePseudoConsole is what then produces the EOF. That third thread is also why the per-pty state is reference counted: a pump blocked on a dead pipe must not be waited for, or pty_close would hang the session on the one program that misbehaves, so whoever finishes last frees. cmd.exe does not use CommandLineToArgvW's quoting. A literal quote is \" to an ordinary program and a backslash-then-end-of-quoted-section to cmd, so building `cmd /c notepad "C:\...\config.kdl"` the first way handed the editor \"C:\...\config.kdl\", backslashes and all, and notepad answered "Not a valid file name" about a path that existed. cmd /c now gets the rest of the line verbatim -- the caller composed a complete command with its own quoting, exactly as it does for sh -c. Paths are mixed, and only some programs mind. slosh joins with '/' while the environment supplies '\', so the config landed at C:\Users\you/.config/slosh/config.kdl. The CRT opens that without complaint, which is why --check reported it fine, but a GUI file dialog rejects it outright. Anything handed to another program now goes through sl_path_native() first; the internal representation is left alone. The rest is small. Panes run %ComSpec%, sessions live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\slosh rather than $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR because a session socket must not follow a roaming profile to another host, there is no SIGWINCH so a resize is noticed by comparing the console size on a bounded poll, no fork so the daemon is a fresh detached process that reconstructs its arguments on the command line, and no process group on a pty so the foreground program is the youngest descendant of the pane's shell. C-a e prefers whichever console editor is actually installed -- notepad is a GUI program, so a pane running it draws nothing and looks broken -- and says so when it has to fall back. make -f Makefile.windows ARCH=x86_64 (or aarch64) cross-compiles from a mac or Linux, and builds natively on the box with zig on PATH.
* selection: drag past an edge scrolls the viewport under ituser2026-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Text taller than the viewport was not selectable in one gesture: the drag stopped dead at the pane's border. Two faults, one visible and one waiting. The visible one: DRAG_SELECT motion subtracted the content origin in uint16_t, so a pointer above or left of the pane underflowed, the grid lookup failed, and the selection froze. The waiting one: the anchor was a pair of *viewport* coordinates re-resolved on every extend, so the moment anything scrolled mid-drag the anchor would have drifted with the viewport, re-anchoring to whatever slid under the press. The anchor is now a tracked grid ref -- the thing lib-vt documents as being for 'long-lived anchors such as selections' -- so it follows its cell across scrolling, pruning and reflow, and only the near end of the selection moves. If a program flooding output prunes the anchored row out of scrollback entirely, the selection keeps what it had; there is no cell left to anchor a new answer to. Motion clamps into the content rect (a pointer past an edge is pointing at the nearest cell), and holding past the top or bottom edge scrolls on a clock rather than on motion, because a resting pointer sends no events and 'keep going' is exactly what resting it there means. app_tick() does the step, app_next_deadline_ms() wakes the poll loop for it -- the same mechanism toasts and hover guides already use -- and both front ends call the tick, so the behaviour exists under the server and the headless harness alike. Rows per step is how far past the edge the pointer sits: one row past creeps, further hurries, so the hand already dragging is also the throttle. The metronome is select_scroll_ms, a knob so the test can configure the clock down instead of sleeping. The test drags to one row above the pane and simply holds: the viewport walks to the top of scrollback (clamping makes the endpoint exact), the copy starts at a line that was never on screen with the press, and still ends at the pressed row -- that last check is the tracked anchor's.
* slosh: OSC 8 hyperlinks pass through the compositoruser2026-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* slosh: defaults most people can live in, said by shadersuser2026-08-19
The out-of-the-box look, rethought as one piece: - the compiled-in palette calms down: muted blue #7aa2f7 on the same neutral darks, with the colours that mean something kept semantic -- amber bell, red-orange dead. sl0p stays one include away as the house style, and contrib/themes/default.kdl is the starting point written down (theme-tour shows it). - derived state defaults now actually follow the theme: the scrolled wash is rebuilt from scroll_bg after the theme block (it used to bake the compiled accent), and declaring a state -- in any file of an include chain -- still wins. The dump writes derived states as comments so C-a e cannot pin what is meant to keep following. - a bell you can see: the frame blinks three times in theme's bell colour then breathes until answered, and a soft diagonal shimmer -- the bell colour halved towards default_fg, width breathing on a sine -- crosses the body for the same 900ms. bell_indicator false silences all of it; states { bell { } } replaces it like any state. since carries the clock dependency, so an idle session pays nothing. - scrollback says where it continues: while scrolled, the viewport's top and bottom rows melt towards an edge with content past it and turn solid at the buffer's end. New expression variables above/below (lines hidden past each edge, own dependency bit, cached per scroll position), carried in shade_ctx_t -- SLOSH_SHADER_ABI 3 -> 4. - expressions survive the dump: a program keeps its source and cb_chain writes it back, so amount="(y % 2) * 40" no longer dumps as a number. - headers move to include/, -Iinclude everywhere; the plugin Makefile's SLOSH var becomes SLOSH_DIR because slosh exports SLOSH=1 into every pane it runs, and building from inside a session read that as a path. - comment drift culled where features outran the prose, and the derivation boilerplate folded into derived_pass()/ctx_scroll().