One real defect, three cleanups, and a named deferral.
A daemon disconnect in terminal mode hid the disconnect notice. The
Disconnected arm set the placeholder text but never left terminal mode,
where the document code layer is not prepared at all and the terminal glyph
layer keeps painting its last frame — so the user was left looking at a
frozen, live-looking terminal that silently ignored input. GPU auto-reconnect
is a named deferral, so that state persisted until relaunch. State::
on_daemon_disconnected now leaves terminal mode, forces a repaint even when
the notice text is byte-identical, and requests a redraw.
The fix and its test share a file, so scripts/bite's file granularity cannot
bite it; the equivalent was done by hand. Neutralizing only the
exit_terminal_mode() call makes the test fail on the "must leave terminal
mode" assertion; restoring it makes it pass.
sync_semantic_terminal_layout no longer clones the whole visible cell grid to
read one size. It ran every dispatcher tick for any semantic frontend with a
declared terminal; TerminalManager::screen_size reads the value from the
borrowed projection instead.
Inbound terminal events now require a negotiated v19 session. The outbound
TerminalFrame was gated twice while TerminalResize/TerminalPointer relied on
the frontend's send gate alone. A pre-v19 peer cannot construct those
variants, so this only refuses a hand-rolled client — and the a32 forgery
tests already prove such an event reaches nothing but the sender's own
authenticated active view — but the asymmetry was not deliberate.
A terminal-mode press that misses the grid no longer arms a drag, so a later
in-grid motion cannot send a Drag with no preceding Down. Daemon-side impact
was nil; the state is now honest. A release still always ends the drag.
The roadmap and handoff Arc 5 lines still said Stage 3 was framed and
awaiting approval, contradicting this PR's own ledger. Both corrected.
Named deferral: terminal wheel gestures discard scroll magnitude. One winit
wheel event becomes one gesture regardless of the lines it accumulated, while
the document path scrolls by lines. Closing it means either N gestures
(chattier) or a magnitude field on the pointer event — a protocol change.
Neither belongs in this stage.
Gates: fmt; strict workspace clippy; 1,758 default + 1,934 CRDT library
tests; Stage 1 9/10, Stage 2 4/4, Stage 3 5/7, statusline 7/8
(default/CRDT); M4 120; required GPU 129; workspace sweep 2,923 across 83
suites; diff check clean.
Five findings, all addressed. One was a real defect; one prediction did not
reproduce and is documented as such rather than papered over.
Hover no longer claims durable terminal control (finding 2, the real one).
apply_terminal_gesture claimed the controller before dispatching, including
for Move, which does nothing. A semantic frontend reports motion at pixel
rate, so sweeping the mouse across a passive split's terminal took durable
control, and the next layout sync resized the shared PTY to that background
view's geometry — precisely the theft the controller rule exists to prevent.
Bare motion no longer claims; every deliberate gesture still does.
scripts/bite HEAD src/editor.rs on the new test is a clean behavioral bite.
The terminal-mode presence-sweep skip is removed (finding 1), but the
predicted failure did NOT reproduce. The review reasoned that skipping the
sweep freezes last_broadcast at the abandoned document position. It does
not: the buffer-follow clears the terminal declaration when it ships the
snapshot, so terminal_active is false on the tick a window first shows a
terminal, and the declaration cannot arrive until a later tick — the
frontend learns the buffer id from that very snapshot. One truthful sweep
always lands first. The real-daemon two-frontend test written to catch the
freeze passes against the pre-fix tree; the bite is vacuous and the test is
labelled a regression guard, not fix evidence. The skip goes anyway: it was
load-bearing on tick ordering and bought nothing, and removing it makes
"presence follows the frontend" structural.
Terminal motion is deduplicated by cell (finding 3). Sub-cell motion
resolved to the same coordinate and still crossed the wire, where every
event is a daemon-side gesture. Press and release re-arm the memo so the
first drag after a press still reports. Its unit test cannot bite — the
seam did not exist pre-fix — and says so.
Declarations record only once sent (finding 4).
terminal_declaration_if_changed is now a pure query;
note_terminal_declaration_sent records. A failed write is retried instead of
suppressed as already-declared. The existing a35 test caught the contract
change and now pins both halves.
Unchanged frames skip revalidation (finding 5). The complete-payload
comparison runs before validate; only validated frames are ever stored, so a
frame equal to the baseline has already passed. The chrome tail is factored
into terminal_chrome so both exits emit it identically.
Gates: fmt; strict workspace clippy; 1,757 default + 1,933 CRDT library
tests; Stage 1 9/10, Stage 2 4/4, Stage 3 5/7, statusline 7/8
(default/CRDT); M4 120; required GPU 128; workspace sweep 2,921 across 83
suites; diff check clean.
Vterm Stage 3 — the final vterm stage. A semantic frontend can now host a
terminal: the daemon ships complete validated cell grids, and pmacs-gpu
renders them with fixed-cell geometry, its own input path, and no document
projection at all.
Protocol v19 appends three variants after their enums' final v18 members:
InstanceMessage::TerminalFrame (daemon-gated), and FrontendEvent::
TerminalResize / TerminalPointer (frontend-gated). It is the first bump to
gate in both directions, so criterion 28 pins each filter independently and
byte pins on StatuslineSegments and MenuPointer guard the placements.
pmacs-protocol gains src/terminal.rs: the shared row/column/visible-cell/
grapheme/metadata bounds, TerminalProcessState, TerminalSelectionSpan, and
TerminalFrame::validate — the ONE structural policy the daemon runs before
emission and the frontend runs after decode. src/terminal/* re-exports them
so no duplicate type exists, and unicode-width becomes a workspace dependency
so the screen and the validator measure glyph columns with one table. A new
8 MiB aggregate glyph bound keeps the largest legal frame (measured:
13,437,863 bytes) under the unchanged 16 MiB transport cap rather than
widening every connection's allocation ceiling.
The semantic producer suppresses the whole document family for a terminal
buffer while keeping the status band, theme, font, statusline, menu, and
minibuffer, and compares the complete ordered payload rather than
screen_generation — scroll, selection, and process state all change without
advancing it.
Two things the framing did not spell out, both found by the real-daemon
acceptance:
The Viewport gate keys on the authenticated source's ACTIVE buffer, not the
buffer the message names. Viewport also aligns the window to what it
declares, so a stale document viewport in flight when a command opened a
terminal dragged the frontend straight back off it: the window oscillated,
every terminal declaration was refused, and no frame ever arrived, with
nothing logged anywhere.
The producer clears terminal mode on every exit path. The daemon uses that
flag to suppress CursorByte and the presence sweep, so an early return that
left it set kept both suppressed after the frontend returned to a document.
pmacs-gpu/src/terminal.rs is a pure cell-space paint planner, unit-testable
without a GPU. The renderer builds one shaped buffer per text run, so a wide
or cluster glyph's advance can never choose the next column's origin.
Criterion 37 needed a seam rather than a fixture: pmacs-gpu depends only on
pmacs-protocol, so attach::connect's reader sink was generalized and a
--headless-probe mode added. The acceptance drives a real daemon, a real
/bin/sh child, the real attach client, and real composited pixels in one
path — which is how both defects above were found.
Gates: fmt; strict workspace clippy; 1,757 default + 1,933 CRDT library
tests; vterm Stage 1 9/10, Stage 2 4/4, Stage 3 4/5 acceptance
(default/CRDT); statusline 7/8; M4 120; required GPU 127; workspace sweep
2,919 across 83 suites; diff check clean.
Revision 8 of docs/vterm-framing.md was reviewed and approved on the
documentation branch vterm-stage3-framing. Stage 3 is implemented on this
branch, cut from canonical main, rather than stacked on that branch.
The framing locks additive protocol v19 (TerminalFrame, TerminalResize,
TerminalPointer), an 8 MiB aggregate glyph-byte bound under the unchanged
16 MiB transport cap, dual viewport declaration after every semantic
snapshot, authenticated per-view routing, and a fixed-cell native GPU
renderer. Criteria 28-37 are the scope of this branch.
Align the durable handoff with the approved escape-prefix contract, record the performance and lifecycle hardening, update the Stage 2 verification map, and publish exact final gate evidence in the active-work ledger.
Add cross-surface Lua, shared-view, clipboard, authenticated routing,
BEL, resize, and real-host PTY acceptance. Ensure terminal-local keymaps
run before raw child transport and document the criterion-to-test map.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Carry the reviewed Revision 7 framing onto the Stage 2 implementation branch
as its first commit. The contract defines durable per-view state, authenticated
input authority, TUI composition, strict Lua operations, and acceptance 15-27.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Synchronize the documentation continuity lane with #126, preserve the parked
work inventory, and record the landed terminal-core state and next sequential
TUI/GPU stages.
Record the control-free cell and SGR mouse hardening, accepted cleanup changes,
remaining DECSTBM/allocation/limit deferrals, behavioral bite, and final gate
counts in framing Revision 5 and project continuity docs.
Record the IND, NEL, RI, TERM, portable-liveness, and tab-stop fixes; make the
line-oriented EOF contract explicit; and list the accepted fidelity,
performance, and lifecycle deferrals.
Update final from-start gates and the clean behavioral bite proof.
Record the Darwin PTY signal-name mismatch found by PR CI, the normalization
commit, and the final from-start green gate sequence with updated test counts.
Record canonical protocol v18 main after #125, mark Arc 4 complete, and pin
the Vterm Stage 1 feature commit and open PR #126 in the delivery records.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add compatibility-preserving full-screen ANSI operations, the bounded terminal
screen and input encoders, and a transactional TerminalManager owning one
read-only identity buffer, PTY process, and screen per session.
Drain terminal-owned process events before process.after-tick, retain exact
final output and PID/outcome annotations, reap killed buffers and shutdown
children safely, and enforce buffer-owned read-only checks across ordinary,
host, undo/redo, and CRDT mutation paths.
Cover split parser and grapheme boundaries, screen/reflow/history invariants,
device responses, lifecycle cleanup, and a real adversarial alternate-screen
PTY. Record the fully gated Stage 1 delivery and downstream TUI/GPU contracts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Record the chosen C-c escape, resize and exit behavior, additive v19
compatibility, complete-frame wire, unchanged Style, and shared-session
ownership. Specify the Emacs-style PID/outcome line retained after exit.
Define the terminal screen ownership boundary, three-PR delivery,
protocol v19 surface, fixed four-agent roster, and 33 acceptance cases.
No implementation is included; the framing remains pending user review.
Levi Neuwirth