PR #155 review round 2, self-review of the round-2 commit.
The round-2 change labelled "minor" — resolving both arms of
pmacs.window.buffer() through the acting frontend for uniformity — made
the NO-ARGUMENT arm fallible. `acting_frontend` follows the interactive
origin, which can name a frontend that has no registered view: a bare
`dispatch_key` from an unattached peer does exactly that. `selected_window`
then raises "acting frontend has no layout" instead of answering.
Nothing surfaced that error, because the runtime callers do not pcall it.
killring, syntax, autosave, pair, indent and comment all read
pmacs.window.buffer() on ordinary edits, so the raise silently dropped
the operation: kill_ring_acceptance went 30/30 to 25/5, with
frontend_detached_drops_per_frontend_state reporting only "B has kill
state". main is 30/30, and reverting this one file restored it.
The no-arg arm is back on ambient active_buffer_id() and now documents
why that is deliberate rather than an oversight: dispatch sets
active_frontend to the acting frontend before running a command, so the
two agree on every real path, while only the ambient resolver has the
fallback that makes it total. The explicit-window arm keeps its Q#BP11
layout validation, which is what the arc actually needed.
acc19c pins it through the real path — a buffer.after-edit subscriber
reading pmacs.window.buffer() during a viewless peer's dispatch_key —
rather than by calling the binding directly. Bite-verified:
scripts/bite bbe4152 src/lua_bindings/mod.rs --test
bottom_panel_stage1_acceptance -- acc19c goes red with the exact
"acting frontend has no layout" traceback.
The ledger also records two gating facts found on the way: the workspace
sweep must run with an isolated XDG_CONFIG_HOME, because the real user
init.lua installs a local package and the losing race leaks a status
message into painted-frame comparisons; and a latent pre-existing main
bug in the buffer CRDT undo path, which is not this branch's and whose
proptest seed is deliberately not committed here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012j4omtTMn9v1UfmHQb9ap6
Levi Neuwirth
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