The mechanical half, riding on the census in the previous commit.
* 342 in-process construction sites in 65 files now take
`new_with_roots` / `open_with_roots` with `iso::roots()`. The isolated
base is a pure function of `CARGO_TARGET_TMPDIR` — no counter, no
`OnceLock` — so two copies of the module in one binary agree instead of
racing, and the tree lives somewhere `cargo clean` owns rather than
leaking into `/tmp` once per run. It is shared deliberately:
materialization is content-gated and idempotent, so a per-test
directory would repeat it ~330 times per run for a byte-identical
result.
* `journey_acceptance` keeps the ambient `EditorState::open`, because
proving the production entry point has a caller is the whole of what
that ratchet is for. Rev 2's "isolated by the environment its binary is
launched with" was not a mechanism — cargo launches each test binary
with the caller's environment, and a binary cannot re-point its own
roots before its tests run. Each test is now a thin parent that
re-execs this binary for its own name with controlled roots, and the
child runs the body against production's call. Two pins guard it: the
child asserts all four roots resolve inside the controlled base, and
the suite asserts against its own source that it has not quietly taken
the seam. The parent also asserts the child ran `1 passed` — a stale
`--exact` filter would otherwise hollow the whole thing out silently.
* The shared spawners take all five storage variables.
`spawn_daemon_process_with_env` set `HOME` and `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` only;
`HOME` is a FALLBACK, so it isolates a root only while the matching
`XDG_*` is unset — the harness's apparent adequacy was a property of
one developer's environment. The PTY spawner backfills whichever of the
five its caller did not pin. The 10 direct `Command::new` daemon and
attach spawns get the same treatment.
Three suites had `mod common;` behind `#[cfg(feature = "crdt")]`;
`common::iso` is needed in every build, so those are ungated. Files that
already pull in `common` reach `iso` through a `use` rather than a second
`#[path]` declaration — loading one file as two modules is
`clippy::duplicate_mod`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
P1 --- the workflow contradicted this lane's own claim. `components:
rust-analyzer` rode the shared `dtolnay/rust-toolchain` step, which
matrixes over ubuntu AND macos, so the binary would have been present
on both. PRESENCE, not PMACS_REQUIRE_LSP, is what decides whether a
gated test body runs --- the unset variables on macOS only meant
absence would be tolerated there, not that the tests stay skipped. Two
rust-analyzer tests would therefore have executed on macOS for the
first time ever, on the legs that are simultaneously the CI critical
path and the documented flake surface, one of them doing real indexing,
none of it covered by the Linux-only local runs behind this lane. Moved
into the Linux-gated step so the text and the workflow agree.
P2 --- the ledger promised a base and pasted nothing. Worse than the
review knew: a script was run to substitute it, reported success,
matched no text, and the result was never re-read. The claim shipped on
the strength of a tool's exit status. The entry now carries the pasted
base and a recovery command, and records the lesson in the terms this
ledger keeps relearning --- asserting a measurement is not making one,
and a tool reporting success is not the measurement either.
P3 --- tool versions pinned (gopls v0.16.2,
vscode-langservers-extracted 4.10.0, yaml-language-server 1.15.0), so
CI no longer drifts with upstream publishes and a break has a commit
here to bisect against. `tests/support/` now states why it exists
beside `tests/common/`: the latter re-exports daemon and PTY
machinery, and pulling that into three binaries that spawn neither to
reach a six-line environment check is the wrong trade. Recorded as a
cost, with the rule that a third such directory means consolidating
rather than continuing.
Also recorded, because §1.2 is NOT fully closed by this lane: the
guards arm the ENTRY skip only, and m4_acceptance's mid-test
"workspace likely still indexing; skipping" survives --- so even armed,
that test's one assertion can still vanish under load, which is exactly
when a regression would show. Mid-test skips want their own pass. And
the follow-up this lane creates: removing the documentation lane
removes the only pointer to githubsucks/handoff-2026-07-20, so that
branch needs deleting after merge or nothing will ever mention it
again.
P4 --- the consolidated lua skip message names PMACS_TEST_LUAJIT again;
the `or_else(locate_shell("luajit"))` path still honours it and the
escape hatch had become undiscoverable. Double blank line before the
parked lane collapsed.
One gate note worth carrying rather than burying. A `PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU=1
cargo test -p pmacs-gpu` run failed once during this round, naming the
`--bin pmacs-gpu` target, and my gate chain still printed a clean
summary because `cmd | tail -2` in an `&&` chain returns TAIL's exit
status, not cargo's. Four subsequent runs pass 202/202 and the failure
has not reproduced, so it is recorded as observed-and-unreproduced
rather than explained. The masking is the durable part: a gate summary
assembled through a pipe can report success over a failure.
Gates re-run after the fix: fmt; clippy -D warnings; --lib 1863; --lib
--features crdt 2048; m4_acceptance 121; m6_5 11; m6_8 8; required GPU
202 (x4); git diff --check clean.
Lane 2 of the testing arc (`TEST_IMPROVEMENT.md` §1.2, §5.4).
The shape being fixed reports GREEN when the tool is missing:
let Ok(_) = which_binary("gopls") else {
eprintln!("gopls not on PATH; skipping");
return;
};
CI installed none of these tools, so a block of real-language-server
and multi-shell tests had never once executed their bodies while
reporting success on every run. A suite that cannot distinguish
"passed" from "never ran" is worse than a missing suite, because it
reads as coverage in exactly the place someone would go looking for it.
The fix is this project's own pattern rather than a new one:
PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU already turns a missing adapter into a hard failure
for the headless render job. This adds PMACS_REQUIRE_LSP,
PMACS_REQUIRE_SHELLS and PMACS_REQUIRE_LUA, and the CI step that
installs the tools they promise. Per-tool variables rather than one
blanket flag, so a tool that must stay unarmed keeps that decision
visible at the call site instead of buried in a workflow file.
basedpyright is deliberately NOT installed and NOT armed. Its test has
no timeout and hangs forever; the root cause is the non-interruptible
reader-thread join in `RuntimeHandles::drop`, already a named deferral
in `src/process.rs`, and the `test` job has no `timeout-minutes`.
Arming it today would trade a vacuous green for a six-hour hang across
four legs. PMACS_REQUIRE_PYRIGHT exists and is never set, so the flip
is one line after the hang fix and the CI timeouts land.
A trap found while writing the workflow rather than after: the natural
Actions idiom
PMACS_REQUIRE_LSP: ${{ runner.os == 'Linux' && '1' || '' }}
sets the variable to the EMPTY STRING on every other platform, and
`var_os(..).is_some()` is true for `Some("")`. That would have armed
the guard on precisely the runners with none of the tools installed
and failed every one of them. The helper treats empty as unset, which
makes the common spelling safe instead of subtly wrong.
The helper is SHARED via `#[path = "support/mod.rs"]` rather than
copied into three test binaries. `m6_8_multi_repl_acceptance.rs`
carried a comment saying cross-test-binary sharing "would need a
fixture crate"; it does not, and a correct helper in one file beside a
degraded copy in another is this suite's most repeated defect.
Verified by execution in all three states, using a tool genuinely
absent from this machine (vscode-json-language-server): unset skips
green; armed fails hard, naming the CI step that should have installed
it; empty string skips green. On `main` the armed state cannot fail at
all, because no guard exists.
And the question none of this could answer until now --- whether the
tests pass when they actually run --- is answered: armed locally, 11
m6_5 and 8 m6_8 REPL tests are green, and all six real-LSP tests
(clangd x2, gopls x2, rust-analyzer x2) pass individually. The coverage
was real the whole time. It just never ran.
Linux only for now, deliberately: macOS needs the brew equivalents and
roughly doubles install cost on the slowest matrix leg. The variables
stay unset there, so those tests skip cleanly as before.
Also removes the documentation lane from the ledger. Its disposition
was left undecided pending confirmation that its branch carried
nothing unique; measured, `githubsucks/handoff-2026-07-20` is 1 ahead
and 365 behind, and its whole unique diff is four doc files at 42
insertions against 88 deletions --- merging it would REVERT current
documentation. The section asked whoever confirmed that to remove it.
Gates: fmt; clippy -D warnings; --lib 1863; --lib --features crdt
2048; m4_acceptance 121 (unarmed, per CLAUDE.md); m6_5 11; m6_8 8;
PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU=1 -p pmacs-gpu 202; git diff --check clean.
Root cause of the CI Lint regression: commit 6113c53 bumped
rust-version 1.85 -> 1.95. clippy::collapsible_if is MSRV-gated —
collapsing `if let { if let }` needs let-chains, stabilized in Rust
1.95. At MSRV 1.85 clippy suppressed these; at 1.95 it emits them.
The patterns were pre-existing; the MSRV bump surfaced 47 of them
and turned `Lint (luajit)` / `Lint (lua54)` red at HEAD (was green
through PR #7; red from PR #8 = the release-prep MSRV bump).
Resolution (operator-chosen: autofix into let-chains): applied
`cargo clippy --fix` across the luajit, lua54, and crdt lanes
(--all-targets). The fix only applied with the lint at warn level;
`-- -D warnings` turns it into an error and blocks --fix.
Verified on the pinned 1.95.0, all three lanes:
clippy --all-targets -D warnings clean (luajit / lua54 / crdt);
fmt 0 diffs; lib tests 1223/0.
Note: the prior #6 "quiescent audit, clippy clean" was inaccurate —
clippy was not actually re-run there (build/version/fmt only), so
this MSRV-gated regression went uncaught until the live attach-debug
investigation surfaced it. This commit restores genuine clippy
cleanliness at MSRV 1.95.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Levi Neuwirth