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.
Levi Neuwirth
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