Stage 2 of docs/terminal-config-and-copy-mode-framing.md (rev 4,
approved). `M-x terminal.copy-mode`, or `C-t` in a terminal buffer —
physically `C-c C-t`, since every unescaped key goes to the child —
materializes the retained scrollback into an ordinary read-only,
path-less buffer, with `g` to re-snapshot and `q` to return.
No protocol change.
Materializing is the whole design. isearch, motion, selection and the
kill ring work with no new substrate because the snapshot is a rope, so
SearchStore and the existing match painting apply unchanged. And "keys
must not reach the child" dissolves structurally rather than being
guarded: the transport arm keys on is_terminal(buffer_id), and a
snapshot is not a terminal, so the arm never fires. The
dispatch-shadow count stays at six and describe-key keeps telling the
truth — asserted directly, since that is the observable difference
between the buffer-local idiom and a shadow.
One serializer, not two (Q#TC7). `copy_retained` builds a whole-range
selection and hands it to `copy_selection_bytes`; a second walk would
re-derive soft-wrap joining, wide-glyph continuation, cluster bytes and
per-row trailing-blank trimming, and the two would drift. Four unit
pins in view.rs assert exact bytes against the same projection fixtures
that pin the serializer itself.
Q#TC6a is implemented as two calls, and the second is the load-bearing
one: an intercept guards dispatch only, and no Lua binding sets
Buffer::read_only, so set_round_trip_input is what keeps a replica
frontend from applying optimistically and emitting an op that would
pass ensure_writable and mutate both sides. Acceptance 16 pins that
UNGATED, because CI never compiles the crdt feature.
Eight of nine criteria. Criterion 17's semantic-frontend end-to-end pin
is deliberately absent: the optimistic apply lives only in
pmacs-gpu/src/main.rs and the headless SemanticClient has no optimistic
path, so a faithful test needs the real GPU binary — the a37
foundation, which CI never compiles, silently returns ok when the
binary is unbuilt, and is load-sensitive. Both halves of the mechanism
are pinned ungated instead (16, and 16b for the hazard); the wire-level
half stays an explicit obligation of the CI crdt-coverage lane.
Substrate fact found while wiring lifecycle: TerminalManager::prune
REACTS to a buffer already gone from the registry rather than removing
one, so a child exiting leaves both the terminal and its snapshot
alive. That is why on_removed is a sound teardown hook, and why a
finished command's output stays readable.
Five bites, five different wrong implementations, each failing exactly
one test: removing set_round_trip_input fails acceptance 16 in the
DEFAULT configuration; a naive independent serializer fails all four
unit pins, with the diffs naming each drift mode; making re-invoke
create a fresh buffer fails 18; dropping the kill-with-terminal
teardown fails 18; removing the intercept fails 16b.
COHERENCE.md: §6 gains this as the worked example that a modal-looking
feature need not become a shadow; §11 records the scope="global"
deferral's second live case, making the argument for both registry
deferrals cumulative; §2 step 8 gains copy mode and keeps the
still-missing close command named.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016gGQC6eqHJVbZJ5Hg7aLer
Five findings, all real. The blocker and both majors are the same
mistake in three places: a claim asserted somewhere cheaper than where
it actually lives.
COHERENCE.md was stale in four places, not the three reported. Step 8
still read "no keybinding" and §11 still read "five settings", but §6's
dispatch table also still cited `is_terminal_escape_chord` — a symbol
this branch deletes. §25 requires that update to ride the PR, so a PR
changing audited ground truth has to re-grep the audit for its own
symbols, not only for its topic.
Acceptance 5 asserted a registry round-trip, which is a test of the
registry: it stayed green with the setting's only consumer deleted. It
now opens a real terminal whose child overflows the 24-row screen,
scrolls the view to its oldest retained row, and asserts LINE001 is
present at 10,000 and absent at 0.
Acceptance 8a waited for the session count to fall, which the rejected
editor-side cache map satisfies exactly — a map with no purge hook
leaks while sessions drain. Adds `TerminalManager::escape_caches()`, the
lifetime half of Q#TC4c's contract that `escape_parses` cannot cover.
`table.sort` over `pmacs.terminal.profiles` raised "attempt to compare
number with string" on the unknown-profile path whenever the user's
table held both a string and a numeric key, replacing the exact
diagnostic being asked for; `%q` raised likewise on a non-string
`profile` argument. Both are partial functions applied to user input on
a diagnostic path.
Also corrects the framing's status line, and a status message whose
embedded whitespace run had survived a rustfmt reflow.
Three new bites, each falsified by revert: deleting the scrollback
consumer fails acc5 and only acc5; restoring the raw-key sort
reproduces the comparison error verbatim; and implementing the rejected
map fails the new acc8a at left: 2, right: 1 while passing the old
session-count version.
Merges githubsucks/main @ ccf29e3.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016gGQC6eqHJVbZJ5Hg7aLer
Stage 1 of the terminal config/copy-mode arc. The terminal had no
configuration surface at all: the command hardcoded $SHELL, scrollback
was a per-open argument only, and the escape chord was a literal in
Rust. No protocol change.
Profiles are a raw Lua table, pmacs.terminal.profiles, not a registry
setting: ConfigValue is four scalars with no table kind, so profiles
join pmacs.lsp.config and pmacs.pair.sets until table-valued settings
exist. The registry gains three scalars whose defaults reproduce the
previous behavior exactly.
Field resolution is explicit open argument, then profile field, then
scalar setting, then $SHELL. env MERGES, with explicit entries
overriding the profile's, because first-wins there would silently drop
half a user's environment. An explicitly named profile that does not
exist is an error even when terminal.default-profile is valid, so a typo
cannot silently fall back.
The two open-time settings resolve through the GLOBAL chain, because
they are read before the identity buffer exists and no caller could have
pinned a local override on a buffer that does not yet exist. Only
terminal.escape-key resolves per buffer, which makes a per-terminal
escape a supported feature.
The escape key is parsed at most once per (terminal, config epoch), and
the cache lives on TerminalSession so its lifetime is the terminal's,
with no purge hook to forget. The epoch alone is not a sufficient key:
it does not advance when focus moves between two terminals with
different buffer-local values, so an epoch-only cache serves one
terminal's chord to the other. An unparseable value falls back to C-c
and reports once per terminal per effective invalid value through the
status line, because a terminal with no escape chord cannot be escaped
to fix the setting that broke it.
Repeating the escape now sends THAT chord to the child through the
ordinary key encoder, rather than a hardcoded ETX. With an escape of
C-x, the previous code sent Ctrl-C and made literal Ctrl-X unreachable.
C-c t opens a terminal. COHERENCE Priority 1 names a terminal
keybinding, and section 2 step 8 grades the terminal works-but-
undiscoverable; C-c is already a live global prefix, so this is a new
leaf rather than a shadow. It is unreachable from inside a terminal,
where C-c is the escape.
Acceptance is tests/terminal_config_acceptance.rs, deliberately NOT
crdt-gated so CI actually runs it. Four bites, each against a different
plausible wrong implementation: a hardcoded ETX fails acc6/9; an
epoch-only cache key fails acc7; a single last-entry cache fails acc8's
parse count; removing the invalid-value fallback fails acc10.
Two test-instrument notes worth keeping. cat -v is the echo probe
because the screen rejects C0 controls before they reach cells, so a raw
echoed Ctrl-X would be invisible. And the probe counts occurrences
rather than testing presence, because a single-character probe collides
with the child's own banner text.
Install strict owned terminal specification parsing, fresh global state tables,
default-name uniquification, durable view/controller lifecycle, and the builtin
terminal command/statusline surface. Route daemon key and mouse input by the
authenticated source and add non-replaying per-frontend BEL baselines.
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Levi Neuwirth