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# Active work — cross-machine resume ledger
**Snapshot: 2026-07-26.** This file records volatile work that has not
landed on `main`. Read it after `docs/agent-handoff.md`. Remove completed
entries when their PR merges; do not let this become a second permanent
backlog.
## Repository authority
- Canonical development URL:
`https://github.com/levineuwirth/pmacs.git`. This ledger uses the
normalized local alias `githubsucks` so its refs and recovery commands
are identical on every machine. Remote names are otherwise
machine-local: `origin` may name this canonical URL, a release mirror,
or something else, and therefore has no authority by name alone.
- Canonical base at this snapshot:
`githubsucks/main` @ `a27f646` (Lean 4 Stage 4a #179 atop Stage 3b
#170, Stage 3a #167, the bottom-panel landed-doc refresh #156, the inline-math slice
#158, dired Stage 1 #165, the GPU terminal input fix #166, Lean 4
Stage 2 #161, the dired framing #164, COHERENCE.md #163, find-file
#162, Lean 4 Stage 1 #160, and the minimap blank-slab fix #159;
protocol v20). The previous snapshot named `d152120`; the recovery
check below accepts it or anything newer.
- On the transfer source, `origin/main` named a release mirror at
`d3fa632` and lagged badly. On the current destination, `origin` names
the canonical URL. This difference is why all recovery begins by
verifying URLs and normalizing `githubsucks` rather than trusting
`origin/main`.
- The shared desktop checkout contained unrelated uncommitted work. The
branches below were prepared in isolated worktrees; never clean or
overwrite the shared checkout to recover them.
Start on another machine by inspecting its remotes:
```sh
git remote -v
git remote get-url githubsucks
```
If the second command says the alias is absent, add it; if it prints a
different URL, stop and resolve that collision rather than overwriting an
unknown remote:
```sh
git remote add githubsucks https://github.com/levineuwirth/pmacs.git
```
Then recover current refs:
```sh
git fetch githubsucks --prune
git log -1 --oneline githubsucks/main
git worktree list
git status --short --branch
```
The `git log` command must expose `d152120` or a newer intentional main.
If it does not, stop and repair the remote/fetch configuration.
## Lean 4 lane (Arc 8) — Stages 1–4a MERGED; Stage 4b IN REVIEW
- **Stages 1, 2, 3a, 3b and 4a are MERGED** — #160 (`main` @ `0827dd1`),
#161 (`46a1b8f`), #167 (`6f348c9`), #170 (`d400f30`), #179
(`a27f646`). Their full
histories were pruned from this ledger in round 6, per this file's own
instruction to remove entries when their PR merges; the durable facts
now live in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1's Lean 4 bullet, which is where
a fresh machine should read them. `docs/lean4-mode-framing.md` rev 9
carries the decisions.
### Stage 4b — the Unicode input method (branch `lean4-stage4b-input-method`)
- Framing `docs/lean4-mode-framing.md` **revision 9**, approved. Stage
4a (the typed-edit consumer chain) MERGED as #179; this branch is 4b,
the Lean content that registers on it.
- Footprint: `scripts/regen-lean-abbrev` (new, the generator),
`builtin/runtime/lean_abbrev.lua` (new, VENDORED DATA — 1,855 entries
from `leanprover/vscode-lean4@17d1d08`, Apache-2.0),
`builtin/runtime/lean_input.lua` (new, the consumer at priority 50),
`src/editor.rs` (two `include_str!` blocks),
`tests/lean_input_acceptance.rs` (new, 25 tests), and one
`#[cfg(feature = "crdt")]` `--lib` test in `src/daemon.rs`
(acceptance 45f). No protocol change (Q#LN14). Entirely Lua apart
from the load sites and that one test.
- **Round 9 corrected three acceptance criteria that the real table
contradicts** — found by simulating the state machine over all 1,855
entries and re-reading upstream at the pinned commit, not by reading
the prose again. `\to` is NOT eager (`top`, `to0`, `toa` extend it);
`\zzzz` expands to `ζzzz ` because `ze`/`zeta`/`zsqrtd` exist, and
only `$ % , ; @ W` open no key at all; and `\alpha`'s undo does not
restore `\alpha ` because `alpha` IS eager, so the terminator is a
separate edit. Criteria 38, 41 and 42 now state both paths.
- **Two generator bugs, both caught by its own round-trip check
failing closed:** `str.splitlines()` also splits on U+2028/U+2029,
and 53 symbols contain one literally, so the check reported a count
mismatch that was its own bug; then escaping via `chr(byte)` produced
a latin-1-shaped string that `write_text(encoding="utf-8")`
re-encoded, and every non-ASCII symbol landed double-encoded. The
first version of the check compared IN-MEMORY strings and agreed with
itself. **It now stages the file, re-reads the bytes from disk, and
renames into place only on a match.**
- **The point must be placed explicitly after the replace.** The
expansion SHRINKS the buffer (`\alpha` 6 bytes → `α` 2), so a point
left at the pre-edit offset is past the new end and every later
self-insert is silently rejected — the editor looks dead after the
first expansion. Pairing's "no cursor motion on the clean path" does
not generalize: that holds only for an insert AT the cursor.
- **Three tests were vacuous when first written and were found by
biting, not by review:** the abandonment test asserted text that a
wrongly-surviving record would also produce (claiming makes no edit —
it needed the follow-up keystroke that completes an eager key); the
re-arm test used the framing's own `\alpha\to`, which never reaches
the re-arm branch because `alpha` is eager and closes the record
first (`\al\to` does); and both buffer-switch tests passed through
`find_or_open`'s fresh-load path, which fires `buffer.after-load` and
a record-less edit rather than `buffer.after-switch` — deleting the
subscriber left them green. All three now bite.
- **Bite table** (each mutation, and the tests it fails):
| Mutation | Tests it fails |
|---|---|
| register at priority 150 (after pairing) | 2 |
| claim only completed expansions | 2 |
| longest match instead of shortest | 9 |
| equal-length tie keeps the LATER key | 3 |
| remove the eager branch | 8 |
| expand without the terminator in the span | 2 |
| remove the re-arm branch | 1 |
| remove the point-still-at-span-end check | 1 |
| remove the exact-revision check | 1 |
| leave the point where the replace found it | 5 |
| remove the `lean4` language gate | 1 |
| remove the `lean.abbrev` gate | 2 |
| `buffer.after-switch` clears every frontend | 1 |
| delete the `buffer.after-switch` subscriber | 1 |
| `frontend.detached` purges every frontend | 1 |
Acceptance 45f bit by construction: without a registered window for
the source frontend it ran six fan-outs with a nil record and proved
nothing, because `handle_remote_crdt_op` arms nothing unless the
source's active window displays the buffer.
- Undo is cross-peer-degraded on CRDT frontends and that is ACCEPTED,
named in the module header (Q#LN21): six source-peer optimistic
inserts replaced by one daemon-peer op. `set_round_trip_input` would
fix it and also disables `dispatch_idle`, so RET would stop inserting
a newline.
## Dired lane — Stage 0 MERGED; Stage 1 IN REVIEW (PR #165)
- Approved framing: `docs/dired-framing.md` **revision 6** — rev 5 is the
approved text (merged as its own docs PR #164), rev 6 adds §0's Stage 1
implementation notes (S1-1…S1-9). Stages 2 (marks and operations) and 3
(wdired) each get their own detailed framing after the prior stage lands.
- **Stage 0 (`C-x C-f` find-file) MERGED as #162** (`main` @ `2af1ab3`,
2026-07-25, one review round, 12/12 CI green). Durable facts moved to
`docs/agent-handoff.md` §1 per rule 3 below.
- **Stage 1 branch: `githubsucks/dired-stage1`**, worktree
`../pmacs-dired-stage1`, based on `githubsucks/main` @ `8c86d34` (the
framing merge #164). **A fresh cut, not a rebase:** the older `dired`
branch (`ffdd642`, worktree `../pmacs-dired-arc`) was based on the
superseded `0827dd1` and carried only the framing content #164 already
put on `main`, so merging it would have reconciled two histories of one
document. It is left untouched and carries nothing unmerged.
- **Stage 1 implemented; no wire change (protocol stays v20).** What
landed on the branch:
- `builtin/runtime/dired.lua`: one buffer per directory named
`*dired:<canonical path>*` with the handle-table ownership check;
read-only intercept + `set_round_trip_input`; the `dired` major mode
and its mode-scoped keymap (`RET`/`f`, `^`, `n`/`p`, `g`, `q`, `s`);
basename cursor re-seating across every wholesale repaint;
`display_file` for file visits and same-window reuse for directory
descent; `C-x d` / `C-x C-j`; the `dired.kill-when-opening` setting.
Loaded after `window.lua`.
- `src/fs.rs`: `ReadDirTolerance`, `FsDirEntryError`, `FsDirListing`,
and one walk that either fails on a per-entry condition or records it
(Q#DR6). `src/async_runtime.rs` carries the listing in
`ReplyKind::ReadDir` / `JobResult::ReadDir`; `src/lua_bindings/mod.rs`
keys the Lua result **shape** on `errors.is_some()`, so the bare array
the frozen M8.2 fixture consumes with `ipairs` is untouched;
`builtin/runtime/fs.lua` validates read-op opts and **rejects unknown
keys** (a typo'd `tolerant` used to degrade silently to fatal).
- `src/editor_core.rs` + `src/lua_bindings/mod.rs`:
`normalize_buffer_path` is `pub` and exposed as
`pmacs.path.canonicalize` — Q#DR2's preferred end state, so no Lua
mirror exists and Stage 2 owes no mirror removal. This makes B2
("tolerant `read_dir` is the only Rust change") false by one small
binding, deliberately.
- `tests/dired_acceptance.rs`: 22 tests over framing items 1–16,
dispatch-driven; item 17 is the m8_1/m8_2/m8_3 additivity gate.
- **The framing claim the substrate falsified (S1-2):** R2-3 expected a
dedicated dired panel to carry its dedication across a descent.
`display_buffer` never replaces the buffer in a slot dedicated to
another one — it discards every side-specific parameter and falls back
to the document window (Q#BP3 2.iii), and the exact-window arm errors.
Dired does not unpin the user's panel; both arms are pinned.
- **The vacuity the bites found (S1-3):** acceptance 3c cannot pin the
descent *routing*. Dired holds focus in its own panel, so a raw
`switch_buffer` lands in the same window and every 3c assertion holds
either way. Dedication is the only discriminator, so the
dedicated-panel test is the real pin — and the vacuity is documented at
the assertion rather than relabelled.
- **The pre-existing test dired's first mode-scoped binding broke
(S1-4):** `describe_key_identifies_every_default_binding` asserted every
binding in the stack resolves through `describe.key` context-free, which
held only while the modes table was empty. It now sets the effective
context per binding and explicitly *clears* the mode for global ones,
because a leaked mode legitimately shadows a global chord of the same
name (dired's `RET` shadows `edit.newline-and-indent`).
- Durable substrate facts, independent of this arc:
- `pmacs.buffer.kill` (not `remove`) redirects windows off a doomed
buffer before removal, so `kill-when-opening` kills **after** the
replacement is displayed.
- Interactive origin does **not** survive an await: work resumed in
`tick_async` sees no `InteractiveCommandOrigin`, so `pmacs.window.*`
acts for the *ambient* active frontend (S1-9).
- Kinds are lstat-based in both `read_dir` and `stat`, so nothing in an
entry says whether a symlink points at a directory; `RET` probes by
trying to list it (S1-8).
- A path-backed buffer's *name* is its full path, not its basename —
worth knowing before writing any name assertion.
- `C-x d` takes **no** completion source on purpose (S1-5): with one,
RET on an empty field opens whatever sorts first, and
RET-on-where-you-are is the gesture the binding exists for. The field
is prefilled instead.
- **Bite verification:** 15 claims, each mutated in place and required to
fail the test that names it. `dired.lua` is new, so `scripts/bite`'s
file swap does not apply; every mutation was applied and reverted with
`git checkout --`. One came back VACUOUS and is recorded above.
- **Review round 1 addressed** (framing rev 7, S1-10…S1-12). Three
behavioral fixes, each bite-verified: `dired.revert`'s re-seat is
guarded on the active buffer (an ambient `move_to_line` after an await
moved an unrelated buffer's cursor — the buffer-level instance of
S1-9); `fmt_size` keeps the column width past ten digits, because
`_layout` is a contract Stage 3 is planned against; and the symlink
descent dropped its probe, since `open_directory`'s
changed-nothing-on-failure invariant *is* the probe (it was listing the
target directory twice). Plus a consecutive-`readdir`-error cap, because
**nothing cancels a dired listing** — it carries no supersede key, so
cancellation was never the backstop the tolerant loop implicitly relied
on. Naming/comment findings taken as-is.
- Durable process lesson, hit twice now: a mutation-bite helper restores
with `git checkout --`, which reverts to **HEAD** — so a fix must be
committed *before* it is bitten. Round 1's fixes were briefly wiped by
exactly that.
- **Canonical main integrated twice** — at `46a1b8f` (multi-root LSP
affinity #161) and again at `b889873` (GPU terminal input #166), both
merged rather than rebased per the #135/#137 precedent so the review
anchors stay addressable. Each conflict was a single doc hunk resolved
as the union: this lane owns COHERENCE's journey step 7 file half, #161
owns the in-flight list, #166 owns step 8's GPU-terminal addendum.
Three things worth carrying:
- **A conflicting PR silently stops running CI.** GitHub builds
`pull_request` runs against the merge ref, which does not exist while
the PR conflicts, so no run is created and nothing reports a
failure — the checks list simply stays as it was. Three pushes to
this branch produced no CI at all before the cause was found. Watch
`mergeable` on a long-lived lane, not just the check list.
- #161's own COHERENCE finding **falsified a claim in this lane's
module doc**: `pmacs.error` is never defined in production, so an
uncaught raise inside a `pmacs.async` coroutine does not reach
`*errors*` as the comment said. It reaches a bare `error()` inside
`pmacs._async.tick()`, whose result `tick_async` discards with
`let _ =` — i.e. nowhere. That makes dired's per-coroutine `pcall` +
`set_status` load-bearing rather than tidy, and the comment now says
so.
- **A lane in review against a fast-moving `main` needs its gates rerun
per integration, not per push.** Main advanced twice inside this
review round, and the second time landed while the first
integration's sweep was still running. The numbers below describe the
twice-merged tree.
- Verification on the twice-merged tree (`main` @ `b889873`):
`cargo fmt --check` clean; strict workspace Clippy clean; **1,832
default + 2,009 CRDT** library tests; dired acceptance **25 default +
25 CRDT**; m8_1 10 / m8_2 15 / m8_3 32 unchanged; multi-root 13 and
vterm Stage 3 5 (both suites main added, green under this lane's
`mod.rs` and `editor.rs` changes); M4 121; required GPU 155;
**isolated-`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` workspace sweep 3,205 passed across 93
suites, zero failures**; `git diff --check` clean. The sweep needs the
isolated config for the reason recorded in the bottom-panel lane
below.
- Coherence (framing §0.5, required since #163): serves `COHERENCE.md` §20
Priority 1, which names this work explicitly; journey step 7's file half
goes from no surface to a surface; **adds no interaction island** — keys
are a mode-scoped keymap, and wdired will be a mode swap; adopts
`pmacs.config` for `dired.kill-when-opening`; inherits §9's
worker-attribution gap for its `read_dir` jobs without worsening it. The
audited claims this changes are updated in `COHERENCE.md` itself, per its
§25.
- **Boundary with the Journey Stage 1 arc** (`COHERENCE.md` §20 arc-cut
1): CLI directory-argument handling (`pmacs .` exits 1) belongs there,
not here — Stage 1 does **not** fix it. The two meet at
`resolve_target_buffer`; dired supplies the buffer a directory should
resolve *to*, and `pmacs .` should route into it rather than growing a
second directory surface.
## GPU terminal input lane — IN REVIEW
- Portable branch: `githubsucks/gpu-terminal-input`, worktree
`../pmacs-gui-term-input`, based on `githubsucks/main` @ `46a1b8f`.
- Approved framing: `docs/gpu-terminal-input-framing.md` revision 2,
committed as the branch's first commit (`9a0df21`). Bug fix, not a
feature; **no protocol change (stays v20)**.
- Reported as "text input within the terminal doesn't work on GUI, this is
fine in TUI". Root cause: the dispatcher applied **both** terminal-layout
syncs to **every** attached frontend, and a semantic session satisfies both
conditions (a `term_sizes` entry from `AttachRequest` *and* a terminal
declaration). Its PTY was resized twice per tick forever — grid arm installs
the TUI placement size, semantic arm installs the declared content
rectangle, each arm's idempotence guard seeing only what the other just
wrote — so the child took a `SIGWINCH` storm at tick cadence.
- **The fix is a split, not a guard.** The grid arm is also the only per-tick
controller-liveness release a semantic frontend gets, and
`sync_semantic_terminal_layout` cannot take that over: the buffer-follow
snapshot clears the viewport declaration (`on_buffer_snapshot_sent`), so
that arm stops running in exactly the switch-away case that needs the
release. `sync_terminal_layout` is therefore split into a
frontend-kind-neutral half (panel reconcile + liveness) and a grid-only
geometry half, with the loop body extracted to
`sync_terminal_layouts_for_tick` so the exclusivity is structural and tests
drive the real thing.
- **Trap for anyone touching this again:** the release at the "no
`window_placements` entry" arm reads like liveness and is grid geometry. A
semantic frontend has no placement entry at all, so moving it into the
neutral half releases a GPU controller every tick.
- Bite-verified against **two** pre-images, because the naive guard fixes the
storm and introduces the leak:
| pin | `main` | naive guard | the split |
|---|---|---|---|
| settle (acc 2+3) | FAIL | pass | pass |
| controller release (acc 6) | pass | FAIL | pass |
| grid still resizes (acc 5) | pass | pass | pass |
- Real-path evidence: a quiet child trapping `SIGWINCH` reports **144 frames
in 4 s and `WINCH 1..12` on screen** against the pre-fix tree, versus a
settled screen with the fix.
- **Deliberately out of scope, named:** interactive-shell echo on a raw-mode
PTY (Q#GT5 — reproduces in-process too, so it is not the GUI/TUI
asymmetry), and a geometry change appearing to clear the visible screen
(reproduces pre-fix; why acceptance 4 latches its observation across
frames).
- Verification on this branch: `cargo fmt --check` clean; strict workspace
Clippy clean; 1,829 default + 2,006 CRDT library tests; vterm Stage 1/2/3
10 / 6 / 9 CRDT; bottom-panel Stage 1 46; M4 121; required GPU 155;
**isolated-config workspace sweep 3,177 across 92 suites, zero failures**;
`git diff --check` clean. Gates were run against the committed tree.
## Terminal config + copy mode arc — Stage 1 IN REVIEW
- Approved framing: `docs/terminal-config-and-copy-mode-framing.md`
**revision 4** (four review rounds), committed as the first commit of
Stage 1's branch. Two stages, two branches, two PRs; **no protocol
change**.
- **Stage 1 = `githubsucks/terminal-config`**, worktree
`../pmacs-terminal-config`, based on `githubsucks/main` @ `d152120`
and merged up to `c93f9ee` during review round 1. Profiles,
scrollback, escape key, and the `C-c t` opening binding.
- **Stage 2 = `terminal-copy-mode`, not started.** Branch it off `main`
after Stage 1 merges: no dependency, but both edit
`builtin/runtime/terminal.lua`.
- Load-bearing decisions, each forced by scouted ground truth:
- profiles are a **raw Lua table** — `ConfigValue` is four scalars with
no table kind, so they join `pmacs.lsp.config` / `pmacs.pair.sets`;
- the **two open-time settings resolve through the global chain**,
because they are read before the identity buffer exists; only
`terminal.escape-key` resolves per buffer;
- the escape cache lives on **`TerminalSession`** so its lifetime is
the terminal's. `value_epoch` alone is not a sufficient key: it does
not advance when focus moves between terminals with different
buffer-local values;
- repeating the escape sends **that chord**, not a hardcoded `0x03`.
- **Four bites, each against a different plausible wrong
implementation** — hardcoded ETX fails acc6/9; epoch-only cache key
fails acc7; single last-entry cache fails acc8's parse count; removing
the invalid-value fallback fails acc10. The first version of acc7
passed against the epoch-only bite because it asserted only that
terminal A still worked; the discriminating assertion is that **each**
terminal honors its own chord and not the other's.
- Test instruments worth reusing: `cat -v` is the echo probe, because the
screen rejects C0 controls before they reach cells so a raw echoed
`Ctrl-X` is invisible; and the probe **counts occurrences** rather than
testing presence, because a single-character probe collides with the
child's own banner text.
- **Review round 1 (2026-07-25) — five findings, all real, all fixed.**
One blocker and two majors were the same failure in three places: a
claim asserted somewhere cheaper than where it lives.
- *Blocker — `COHERENCE.md` was stale in four places, not the three
reported.* Step 8 still read "no keybinding"; §11 still read "five
settings"; and §6's dispatch table still cited
`is_terminal_escape_chord`, **a symbol this PR deletes**. §25 makes
that update ride the PR. A PR that changes audited ground truth has
to re-grep the audit for its own symbols, not only for its topic.
- *Major — acceptance 5 was vacuous.* It asserted a registry
round-trip, so 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. **Asserting
a value was stored is not asserting anything reads it.**
- *Major — acceptance 8a asserted the session count, not the cache.*
An editor-side map with no purge hook — the exact rejected design —
leaks *while* sessions drain, so it passed. Fixed with a
`TerminalManager::escape_caches()` seam. **A lifecycle claim needs a
lifecycle observable.**
- *Moderate — `table.sort` over user-controlled profile keys.* A
table holding both a string and a numeric key raised `attempt to
compare number with string` **on the unknown-profile path**,
replacing the 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** — the error reporter was the
thing that failed.
- *Minor — the committed framing still said "not yet approved".*
- **Three new bites, each falsified by revert**: deleting the scrollback
consumer fails acc5 (and only acc5); restoring the raw-key sort
reproduces `attempt to compare string with number` verbatim; and
implementing the rejected editor-side map fails the new acc8a at
`left: 2, right: 1` **while passing the old session-count version** —
which is the review finding demonstrated rather than argued.
- Verification after the round-1 fixes, on the tree merged with
`githubsucks/main` @ `c93f9ee`: `cargo fmt --check` clean; strict
workspace Clippy clean; 1,832 default + 2,009 CRDT library tests;
`terminal_config_acceptance` **12/12 in both configurations**; vterm
Stage 1/2 9+10 / 6+6; config registry 16+16; bottom-panel Stage 1
46+46; M4 121; required GPU 202; `git diff --check` clean.
- `compile_mode_acceptance` fails 11/67 against the **real** user
config and passes 67/67 with an isolated `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` — the
known pre-existing trap, not this branch.
- **`vterm_stage3_acceptance::a37` fails on this machine — and fails
identically on the PR's own base `d152120`**, so it is not this
branch's regression. It is load-sensitive: it passed at `d152120`
once and failed at that same commit twenty minutes later, with a
second agent saturating the machine with `rustc` in between. Two
ways it lies, both worth knowing: it **silently returns `ok` when
`pmacs-gpu` is not built** in the same target dir (only
`PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU=1` promotes that skip to a failure, and the gate
list applies that flag to `-p pmacs-gpu`, a *different* package), and
it is **crdt-gated, so CI has never run it at all**. A green a37 in
a gate log means nothing unless the binary was built and the flag
was set. Needs its own lane; see the CI `crdt`-coverage lane on #168.
- `pmacs-gpu` itself failed 201/202 once under the same load and passed
202/202 on immediate rerun.
## Bottom-panel lane (Arc 7) — Stage 1 + framing MERGED; Stage 2A IN REVIEW
Stage 1 and the Stage 2 framing are on `main`. **Stage 2A is
implemented and in review.**
- **Stage 2A — portable branch `githubsucks/bottom-panel-stage2a`**,
worktree `../pmacs-bp-stage2a`, **canonical `main` @ `cf54270`
integrated** (review round 1, finding 4 — the terminal-config lane
#173 also changes `src/editor.rs`, so gates were rerun on the merge
result, not the old combination). Five commits: the classified census
routing, the painter extraction + acceptance, the lane record, then
the round-1, round-2 and round-3 review fixes. **No protocol change; no behavior
change for any frontend today** — with `panel_capable = false` for
semantic sessions, `primary_document_window` returns `view.active`
in every existing configuration, so this is seam adoption that
becomes load-bearing in 2B.
- Verification on the merge result: `cargo fmt --check` clean; strict
workspace Clippy clean; **1,832 default + 2,015 CRDT** library tests;
`bottom_panel_stage2a_acceptance` **17**; bottom-panel Stage 1 46;
statusline segments 8 CRDT; m11_5 semantic 2 CRDT; GPU initial target
14 CRDT; terminal config 12 CRDT; vterm Stage 1/2 10 / 6; folding
Stage 2 48; M4 121; required GPU 202; `git diff --check` clean.
- **Every routed producer is now pinned at a seam its production caller
uses, and each pin was falsified by revert**: #1 follow, #2 lazy CRDT
upgrade, #3 `CursorByte`, #5 decorations, #7 `Viewport` (aligns
without focusing), #8 `Pointer` (aligns and focuses), #9 the
terminal-context gate, #12 statusline, #21 the publication filter,
plus the focus-class negatives. #1/#3/#21 required extracting three
named helpers, because their only production caller is
`dispatcher_loop`, which no test can drive.
- **Three lessons about the TESTS, not the code, all from review:**
(a) a *structural* test comparing the two authorities directly does
**not** catch a misrouted consumer — only consumer-level assertions
do; (b) a daemon-path test must `register_session` or the event is
dropped at the uninstalled-session check before reaching the code
under test; (c) a discriminating fixture must make the two routings
DISAGREE — comparing two non-terminal buffers, or two windows with no
selection, yields the same answer either way and proves nothing.
Round 2 found four of my own pins vacuous by exactly these shapes, and
round 3 found two more problems of the same family: a pin placed at a
HELPER while production called it from a producer (reverting only the
producer's call site left every test green), and a socket-pair
assertion whose blocking read made a regression HANG instead of fail.
Both now assert at the producer, with read timeouts on every read.
- **Review round 1 closed: 4 P1 + 2 P2, all real.** The P1s were a
stale-`Pointer` focus steal (the failed-alignment arm returned the
window, so #8's activation focused it before `dispatch_pointer`
rejected the buffer), the missing A2A-2 two-context fan-out, a census
suite that asserted the AUTHORITY rather than the CONSUMERS, and the
missing main integration. **Two of the new pins were themselves
vacuous on the first attempt** — the dispatcher test passed because an
unregistered session is dropped at `daemon.rs:1962` before reaching
the aligner, and the painter test was a fixed-point check that
survived deleting `text_view.render`. Both now fail under their own
bite.
- **`vterm_stage3_acceptance::a37` is a pre-existing flake here**, not a
Stage 2A regression: measured **6/8 failures on the base commit** and
**7/8 on the branch** in matched isolated samples. It needs a real
daemon + real PTY + headless GPU and is documented load-sensitive.
It also silently returns `ok` unless `pmacs-gpu` has been built, and
is `crdt`-gated so CI never runs it at all.
- **Two suites are dark without `--features crdt`**:
`m11_5_semantic_acceptance` reports **0 tests** and
`gpu_initial_target_acceptance` reports **1** in the default config.
Both are semantic-census suites, so Stage 2A must be gated with the
feature on or its most relevant coverage never executes.
- Stage 1 merged as **#155** (`main` @ `e745068`, 2026-07-24, after two
review rounds). No protocol change. Durable substrate facts live in
`docs/agent-handoff.md` §1; the two round lessons are in §5.
- Landed-docs follow-up merged as **#156** (`main` @ `d152120`,
2026-07-25).
- **Stage 2 framing: `docs/bottom-panel-stage2-framing.md` revision 4**,
on branch `githubsucks/bottom-panel-stage2-framing` (three commits,
one per revision), worktree `../pmacs-bp-stage2`, based on
`githubsucks/main` @ `ccf29e3`. Round 1 closed 2 blocking + 3 high;
round 2 closed 1 blocking + 2 high + 1 medium and decided both open
items; round 3 closed 1 blocking + 1 high + 1 medium. No open items
remain. The approved
parent framing `docs/bottom-panel-framing.md` (rev 4) remains
authoritative, **including its acceptance criteria 37–55**.
- Retained, carrying nothing unmerged: branch `bottom-panel` and worktree
`../pmacs-bottom-panel`.
- **Stage 2 ships as two serial slices**, 2A landing before 2B branches:
**2A** = classified §1.3 census routing + `paint_frame` per-window
painter extraction (with the active-window auto-scroll preparation), no
protocol change; **2B** = protocol **v21**
(`InstanceMessage::PanelFrame` plus
`FrontendEvent::{FrontendCellGeometry, PanelResizeRows, PanelPointer}`,
gated both directions, each extended enum byte-pinned on its own
previous final variant), daemon panel projection, the GPU band, and the
negotiated `panel_capable` flip. Stage 3 is the adopter default flip.
- **Correction — this entry previously mis-stated the census contract.**
It is **not** "route every consumer through `primary_document_window`".
Q#BP14 classifies the 23 reads into four classes and routes only the
**Projection** class that way; focus/input (#13–#15, #23), focus chrome
and surface-routed (#16–#19), and focus/session (#20) keep their own
authorities. Rerouting them would break remote-op validation and
application, `DispatchIdle`, presence, focused search/menu/completion
routing, and terminal bell ownership. The Stage 2 framing carries the
full table.
- **The GPU document bottom is three boundaries, not one.**
`text_area_bottom` (`pmacs-gpu/src/main.rs:8490`) is today
`status_band_top`, `geometry_capacity_bottom`, and
`document_text_bottom` at once. Once a band is installed they diverge:
the status chrome must stay pixel-identical at the physical window
bottom while document consumers move. A blanket rewrite of that helper
moves both together and passes an "everything moved" assertion, so the
Stage 2 criterion asserts **both directions in one scenario**. The
census is 20 production sites (8 status-owned, 12 document-owned) + 1
definition + 8 test sites = 29 matches; the framing carries the
per-site table. The three easiest to misclassify are document
completion `:6140`, minibuffer candidates `:7351`, and edge scrolling
`:8561` — each with its own visible symptom.
- **Folding Stage 3 and this arc's Stage 2 both touch the semantic
projection.** Whichever is framed second re-scouts the other's landed
state.
## Folding lane (Arc 6) — Stages 1 and 2 MERGED; Stage 3 (GPU) is next
Both shipped stages are on `main`; nothing in this arc is in flight. Stage 3
has **no branch and no framing yet**.
- Stage 1 (headless fold engine) merged as **#142**, Stage 2 (grid/daemon
collapse) as **#149** — both under "Closed since the last snapshot".
- Retained, carrying nothing unmerged: branches `folding` / `folding-tui`
and worktrees `../pmacs-folding` / `../pmacs-folding-tui`. The framings
`docs/folding-framing.md` (rev 5) and `docs/folding-stage2-framing.md`
(rev 4) are the approved artifacts Stage 3 re-scouts against.
- **Stage 3 (GPU) obligations, already named by the framings** — the
starting point for its own framing doc: GPU collapse at TUI parity;
caret/hit-test fold-awareness; the `BufferSnapshot` **fold-mirror clear**
(parent R2-4 — without it, empty-after-revert diff suppression leaves
stale folds on the GPU, the same trap class as #120); CRDT-origin and
GPU-optimistic interactive unfold (parent R2-3); and flipping
`FrontendView.fold_projection` to `true` for semantic frontends, which
Stage 2 deliberately left `false` (Q#FD21).
## Parked lane: kill-ring browser + persistence
- Portable branch: `githubsucks/kill-ring-browser`
- Parked framing head: `503c489`
- State: framing only, revision 2; no implementation and no PR.
- Status: explicitly parked by the user on 2026-07-20.
- Its original scout was based on `0efb5cd`. The preserved framing marks
this ground truth stale and requires a complete re-scout against the
then-current `githubsucks/main` before implementation.
- Compile-mode has merged since the original scout, so old
“compile-mode in flight” keybinding/touch-set assumptions are not
authoritative.
Recovery worktree, only when the user un-parks it:
```sh
git worktree add --track \
-b kill-ring-browser \
../pmacs-kill-ring-browser \
githubsucks/kill-ring-browser
```
## Documentation lane
- Portable branch: `githubsucks/handoff-2026-07-20`
- Carries synchronized `AGENTS.md` / `CLAUDE.md`, this ledger, the
durable handoff refresh, and the keybinding reference correction.
- It changes no runtime code.
- Review and merge this documentation branch separately; it must not be
folded into a feature framing branch.
- Now also absorbs both landed arcs: Vterm Stage 1 (#126) and the config
registry (#127). Canonical `main` is merged into it up to `2e37c04`,
so its diff against `main` is documentation only.
## Closed since the last snapshot
- **Inline-math slice — MERGED as #158** (`main` @ `5aa9044`,
2026-07-25). Detect → parse → layout → draw for `$…$`, entirely inside
`pmacs-gpu`, no protocol change. Verified by the user's manual pass on
a real paper after the landing. What is worth carrying forward:
- **The v0 subset is 34 Greek symbols, sub/superscript, and `\frac`.**
An unsupported command fails the **whole span** back to source, so on
a real document most inline spans still show LaTeX. Widening the
symbol map is the highest-value next increment — ahead of display
math, which is also deferred.
- **A stale frontend binary is invisible from the source tree.** The
slice lives only in `pmacs-gpu`, so after it merged the feature was
absent until `cargo build --release -p pmacs-gpu` and a client
restart; the daemon needs neither. Diagnose with `strings` on the
binary (`Latin Modern Math`, `MathBox`) rather than by re-reading the
checkout, which was already current.
- **Main was integrated three times in one day** (`8c86d34`,
`46a1b8f`, `b889873`), merged not rebased to preserve review anchors.
Two conflicts, both this ledger and nothing else. **The dangerous
case was the one that did NOT conflict**: #166 auto-merged into
`pmacs-gpu/src/main.rs`, the file this lane rewrites, because the two
edits sat in different regions of it. Decide whether to integrate
from the shared-**file** set, never from whether git complained.
- **Integration was proved by test-count reconciliation**, not by a
green run: predict what the other side adds, then check the deltas.
GPU 199→202 matched `e547a90`'s 3; later lib 1,826→1,829 and CRDT
2,003→2,006 matched #166's 3, with GPU unchanged because #166 adds
none. Suites 91→92 was #161's new binary.
- **Why the branch had no CI for a day**: a conflicting PR builds no
merge ref, so no `pull_request` run is created. The ledger previously
recorded this cause as unidentified; it is not. Check `mergeable` and
confirm a run exists for the current head SHA.
- **`m4_5_basedpyright` has no timeout and hangs forever**, parking a
`--workspace` sweep (observed 2h26m at 38 of 92 suites). It is
**intermittent**, so an earlier clean sweep proves nothing. Sweep with
`cargo test --workspace --no-fail-fast -- --skip basedpyright` and
judge progress by whether the suite count advances.
- Named v0 approximations: the peer-caret half of acceptance 14 is
pinned at the mapping level, not pixels; a soft-wrapped spacer draws
its box whole at the first run's origin; the fit budget reads the
bundled code face even under a custom `set_font` family.
- **Bottom panel Stage 1 — MERGED as #155** (`main` @ `e745068`,
2026-07-24, after two review rounds). Window placement, window
parameters, TUI side windows, the divider, and the adopter `display`
opt-in, with no protocol change. Both rounds found the same class of
defect and are worth keeping:
- **Round 1**: the Q#BP6 side-window split guard had *no production
caller* — `C-x 2` still reached plain `split_active` — and survived
because the acceptance test called the core method directly.
- **Round 2**: Q#BP7's terminal growth re-arm had *never been
implemented*, and the assertion meant to pin it (`at_bottom`) is a
geometric readout that a still-anchored view satisfies; the anchor
assertions beside it compared `""` with `""` because the PTY fixture
emitted LF-only output.
- **Post-round-2 self-review**, caught by CI going red on all four Test
jobs: resolving `pmacs.window.buffer()`'s no-argument arm through the
acting frontend made a total function partial, and six runtime modules
silently dropped operations (`kill_ring_acceptance` 30/30 → 25/5).
Fixed in `9110f9f` before merge.
- Gating fact 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. There is also a latent pre-existing
`main` bug in the buffer CRDT undo path, unrelated to this arc.
- `compile_mode_acceptance` is load-sensitive under default
parallelism (~1 run in 3, a different test each time); verified
pre-existing by swapping in `main`'s `compile.lua`. It is 67/67 at
`--test-threads=1`.
- **GPU initial target — MERGED as #148** (`main` @ `0dd16a5`, 2026-07-24,
after two review rounds). `pmacs --gpu [--socket …] FILE` opens a target
before the GPU window appears. Protocol bumped 19 → 20: a semantic-session
`SessionBootstrapRequest` after `AttachRequest`, plus an appended
`InstanceMessage::InitialTargetResult` pre-window readiness barrier; v6–v19
wire encodings are unchanged. Root owns launcher tilde/cwd resolution and
exact raw-byte path transport; the daemon resolves/dedups/loads the target
and runs load/switch hooks inside one dispatcher transaction, then
publishes CRDT-upgraded targets to existing grid replicas (gated on
`upgraded_to_crdt`, independent of the load/create outcome, so a dedup onto
a hidden not-yet-backed buffer still reaches pre-attached replicas — round
2 finding). Semantic replicas receive a publication only when displaying
that buffer, so a second target launch cannot switch an existing GPU
window. Round 2 also closed a failure-containment gap: every dispatcher-side
bootstrap failure now shuts down the socket (a dropped write-half clone
does not close a shared FD), and the dispatcher drops any event from a
session that was never installed, rather than reaching absent render/size
state. Integrated cleanly with Folding Stage 2 (#149): fold projection at
attach is selected from the same negotiated `semantic_render` bit the
target bootstrap uses. Its lane, worktree (`../pmacs-gpu-initial-target`),
and branch (`gpu-initial-target`) are done; the `-framing` branch is kept.
Durable substrate facts and both review-round lessons live in
`docs/agent-handoff.md` §§1/5 and `docs/gpu-initial-target-framing.md`
rev 3.
- **Folding Stage 2 (grid/daemon collapse) — MERGED as #149** (`main` @
`6ed4fe9`, 2026-07-24, after **five** review rounds). The grid TUI now
renders collapses. Spine (Q#FD12): `src/fold_view.rs`'s `VisibleLineMap`,
derived from the fold store plus a window's line offsets and **never
stored**, threaded as `Option<&'a VisibleLineMap>` on a lifetime-bearing
`Viewport<'a>` that stays `Copy`. No wire schema or protocol change; the
GPU path is Stage 3. 48 acceptance tests on the real `paint_frame` grid,
every behavioral claim bite-verified. Durable design points, each a trap
Stage 3 inherits:
- the map's unit is a **merged hidden component** (overlapping *or
adjacent* intervals unioned, keeping the earliest visible head), not a
fold — folds may cross, and a later fold's own head can be hidden;
- instances are **per rendered window** and **per command/event
operation**, never per frame; a command's map follows the operation's
**target** window, since a wheel event names a pane without activating it;
- fold projection is **per-frontend** (`FrontendView.fold_projection`) —
shared `EditorCore` motion would otherwise make a simultaneous unfolded
GPU session's cursor skip lines it still displays;
- a hidden cursor normalizes by **position**, not row, and `set_view_top`
clamps in the setter rather than being repaired at render time;
- the interactive-Lua unfold keys on the **post-intercept** edit site — a
managed buffer intercept may legally relocate the op.
Process notes worth keeping: `main` moved under the arc, and the merge was
textually clean but **not semantically clean** (#146 added `Viewport`
literals the new `folds` field invalidated) — a clean `git merge-tree` does
not mean the merged tree compiles. CI was red at review on the macOS/luajit
`outline_5_level_100_entry_renders_within_100ms` budget flake and went
green on rerun.
- **Documentation ledger refresh — MERGED as #147** (`main` @ `0a479ae`,
2026-07-24). The #142 housekeeping, expanded after review found the ledger
stale through four merges rather than one. Its own macOS/luajit red was the
vterm `VTERM_ALT_READY` PTY timeout; green on rerun.
- **Web grammars HTML + CSS — MERGED as #146** (`main` @ `47581f4`,
2026-07-23). `.html/.htm/.xhtml` and `.css` highlight off the official
`tree-sitter-html` 0.23 / `tree-sitter-css` 0.25 crate query constants (no
in-repo overlay), and HTML's `INJECTIONS_QUERY` lights up `<script>` → js
and `<style>` → css. Durable lesson recorded in
`docs/web-grammars-html-css-framing.md`: the `highlight.rs` capture table
is **global**, so adding a capture name retro-paints every other language —
check the reverse direction and pin it.
- **LaTeX Stage 1 — MERGED as #144**, with its parent inline-math framing
committed as **#145** (`main` @ `f09b0a1`, 2026-07-23).
`.tex/.latex/.sty/.cls` highlight via `codebook-tree-sitter-latex` 0.6 plus
the first in-repo query overlay (`builtin/queries/latex/highlights.scm`,
`include_str!`) — the reusable pattern for grammars whose crate ships no
usable queries. The crates.io `tree-sitter-latex` is provably broken (no
`scanner.c`). The math parser and Tiers 3–4 are deferred to the inline-math
arc.
- **Folding Stage 1 (headless fold engine) — MERGED as #142** (`main` @
`c49a8c7`, 2026-07-23, after three review rounds; round 3 clean). The
instance-side fold store + translating/dropping `View`, the structural
source (derived head line, closer-aware tail), the Lua data API +
interactive `C-c @` commands, the command-path pre-edit unfold, and
authoritative-empty `FoldState` production landed with no protocol bump.
The `folding` branch and worktree (`../pmacs-folding`) are retained but
carry nothing unmerged; the `folding-framing.md` framing is preserved.
CI red at merge was an unrelated environmental perf flake
(`outline_5_level_100_entry_renders_within_100ms`, macOS/luajit only),
green on rerun. Stage 2 has since merged as **#149** (above); durable
substrate seams live in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1.
- **Vterm Stage 3 (protocol v19 + GPU terminal) — MERGED as #135** (`main`
@ `cac4961`, 2026-07-22, after two review rounds). Arc 5's terminal stage
is complete (compile mode #113, Stage 1 #126, Stage 2 #130, Stage 3 #135).
Its lane, worktree (`../pmacs-vterm-gpu`), and branch are done; durable
substrate facts live in `docs/agent-handoff.md` and `docs/vterm-framing.md`.
- **Branches deleted 2026-07-22 (authorized):** `vterm-stage3-framing`
(Revision 8 framing; its content is carried on `vterm-gpu`, verified as a
superset before deletion — the branch was NOT an ancestor of `vterm-gpu`
because the framing was copied rather than merged, so it needed a forced
local delete) and `tab-width-parity` (a clean ancestor of `main` via
#137). Both removed as worktree + local ref + `githubsucks` ref; the
`origin` tracking refs were pruned. The `-framing` branches for each are
deliberately kept.
- **Tab-width rendering parity — MERGED as #137** (`main` @ `2625ec7`,
2026-07-22). One fixed 8-column `TAB_STOP_COLUMNS` in `pmacs-protocol`
now drives core/TUI columns, GPU code projection, and minimap width;
source bytes and protocol ranges are unchanged. Its lane, worktree, and
`tab-width-parity` branch (local + `githubsucks`) are deleted; the
`tab-width-parity-framing` branch is kept. This closes the long-standing
"tab width is a rendering-parity
bug, NOT a config gap" deferral recorded in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §5.
- **Locals-query processing — MERGED as #134** (with handoff #136), and
**modeline detection handoff #133**. Both landed between this lane's
base and its canonical-main integration.
- **Config registry — MERGED as #127** (`main` @ `2e37c04`). Its lane
(`config-registry`, worktree `../pmacs-config-registry`) is done; the
branch is kept but carries nothing unmerged. Durable substrate facts
moved to `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1 per rule 3 below.
- Both this and Vterm Stage 1 ran as **concurrent lanes in sibling
worktrees off `main`**, with the shared files (`src/editor.rs`,
`src/lua_bindings/mod.rs`, `src/lib.rs`) assigned to one lane each in
advance. The rebase of the second lane onto the first had **zero
conflicts** — worth repeating for future parallel work, along with its
precondition: agree the file split before either lane starts, and keep
each lane's footprint in the other's files to a single line.
## Update protocol
Whenever a listed lane changes materially:
1. update its public branch and head/state here;
2. record new verification and remove superseded caveats;
3. keep durable architecture in `docs/agent-handoff.md`, not here;
4. remove the lane after merge or abandonment;
5. verify every recovery command from a clean worktree before calling
the transfer complete.
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