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.
Levi Neuwirth
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