pmacs/builtin/runtime
Levi Neuwirth 44bd2201e7 feat(help): the discovery command family — P4 Stage 1
Implements `docs/discovery-stage1-command-family-framing.md` (approved
at revision 6). `COHERENCE.md` §5 graded discoverability "substrate
without surface": the registries already carried descriptions, source
locations and reverse key lookup, and almost none of it was reachable.

Eleven commands under one `help.*` prefix, so typing `help` at M-x
surfaces the whole family. Nine are new; `editor.describe-command` and
`editor.describe-setting` are renamed in, with the old names retained
as forwarders so nothing documented breaks.

No Rust. Every command renders data `pmacs.describe.*`,
`pmacs.keymap.list()`, `pmacs.command.list()` and `pmacs.config.list()`
already return, and `describe-setting`'s completion source is a Lua
function via `CompletionSource::Custom`, which needed no binding work
either — correcting a comment in `default.lua` that claimed `source`
was a fixed Rust-side vocabulary.

`apropos` matches by substring, not fuzzy: `fuzzy_score` is
subsequence-based and descriptions are long sentences, so fuzzy would
match nearly every command.

Two disciplines the file keeps. Every command renders through the
public `pmacs.editor._show_help`, which buys one owner for the shared
`*help*` policy — reuse-by-name, wholesale replacement, `q`, and the
foreign-buffer hazard. It does NOT buy a one-site migration to
`src/help.rs`, which has no renderer for settings, lists or apropos; so
rendering is a named per-subject function, and the future Rust work is
enumerated per subject rather than discovered per call site.

The seam-counting pin earned its place immediately: the two renamed
commands were still calling the file-local `show_help_text`, so the
funnel was fiction for exactly the two commands that predate it. They
now call the public seam, with a comment saying why the local is not
used from the same file.

Moves `help` out of `welcome.lua` into the new `runtime/help.lua`,
which owns the family and loads after it so the index can read
`pmacs.welcome.entries`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-31 19:04:48 -04:00
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async.lua feat(journey): open a directory, on one path 2026-07-26 16:39:59 -04:00
autosave.lua feat(config): typed configuration registry with buffer-local scope 2026-07-21 18:29:18 -04:00
comment.lua feat(lean4): editing surface + Stage 1 acceptance (Q#LN5, LN6, LN17) 2026-07-25 09:59:48 -04:00
compile.lua feat(compile): make building discoverable — journey step 9 2026-07-30 21:13:12 -04:00
completion.lua fix(completion): address TUI-validation findings (LSP query gaps, scoping, prefix keys, window scope) 2026-07-07 16:54:14 -04:00
desktop.lua fix(persistence): reliable daemon gate, unarm, per-pane after-load 2026-07-08 22:27:24 -04:00
dired.lua feat(generated-buffers): dired and listview adopt the authorized write 2026-07-29 09:50:09 -04:00
editops.lua fix(config): reject wrongly-typed spec fields; make trim-on-save buffer-aware 2026-07-21 18:29:18 -04:00
fold.lua feat(fold): Arc 6 Stage 1 — instance fold engine (headless) 2026-07-23 12:14:00 -04:00
fs.lua wip(stage2a): the Lua half — hooks, LSP subscribers, applier origin 2026-07-29 18:09:03 -04:00
help.lua feat(help): the discovery command family — P4 Stage 1 2026-07-31 19:04:48 -04:00
indent.lua fix(edit): PR #109 round 1 — shared search invalidation, daemon anchor clear, bounded indent scan 2026-07-10 15:46:36 -04:00
killring.lua feat(edit): editing-conveniences pack (editops) 2026-07-12 15:33:17 +01:00
lean.lua fix(lsp): close round-six Lean fallback gaps 2026-07-25 22:32:48 -04:00
lean_abbrev.lua feat(lean4): the Unicode input method (Arc 8 Stage 4b) 2026-07-26 16:24:06 -04:00
lean_input.lua fix(lean4): count fan-outs where a claim cannot skip the count 2026-07-26 17:15:24 -04:00
listview.lua fix(editor-core): normalize rewritten selections 2026-07-29 12:26:08 -04:00
lsp.lua feat(lsp): say when the language server did not start — journey step 6 2026-07-30 22:07:30 -04:00
mcp.lua M9 ship gate 2026-05-09 15:04:23 -04:00
pair.lua feat(typed-edit): the typed-edit consumer chain (Arc 8 Stage 4a) 2026-07-26 13:00:03 -04:00
recentf.lua fix(persistence): symlink confinement, real test-inertness, view_top restore 2026-07-08 18:21:46 -04:00
saveplace.lua fix(persistence): symlink confinement, real test-inertness, view_top restore 2026-07-08 18:21:46 -04:00
syntax.lua feat(lean4): editing surface + Stage 1 acceptance (Q#LN5, LN6, LN17) 2026-07-25 09:59:48 -04:00
terminal.lua fix(buffer): fan out generated writes, and clear the history that exists 2026-07-26 13:43:22 -04:00
typed_edit.lua fix(typed-edit): close round-8 review on the consumer chain 2026-07-26 13:39:33 -04:00
welcome.lua feat(help): the discovery command family — P4 Stage 1 2026-07-31 19:04:48 -04:00
window.lua feat(window): adopter placement opt-in and the Stage 1 acceptance suite 2026-07-24 14:10:45 -04:00