Arc 2 (docs/kill-ring-framing.md, rev 3 — three review rounds). Kills
accumulate in a ring; consecutive kills append; C-y yanks the head; M-y
right after a yank cycles older entries; C-k (kill-line) exists at last.
The ring is daemon-global (Emacs-daemon model); chains and yank sessions
are per-frontend.
The substrate (Q#KR2): EditorCore.command_history maps FrontendId ->
{this, last} command. Every input path updates it --- the rev-1 design
treated dispatch_key as the only input path and review falsified that
twice:
keybound command dispatch_key Run arm rotate
typed char (round-trip) self-insert fallback rotate
unbound key dispatch_key unbound arm break
GPU optimistic edit handle_remote_crdt_op break
pointer gesture dispatch_mouse + dispatch_pointer break
inbound OS paste unified paste route break
menu item menu_invoke_active rotate
M-x accept pmacs.command.invoke_interactive rotate
invoke_interactive gives Emacs's execute-extended-command semantics
(M-x kill-line then C-k appends; C-k then M-x kill-line does not); the
public pmacs.command.invoke stamps nothing. Wheel scroll deliberately
does NOT break (mwheel-scroll vs mouse-set-point, as in Emacs).
Three shipped bugs fixed en route (Q#KR10):
- Semantic-path Paste was dropped ("no grid-less effect yet"), and the
GPU always negotiates semantic render --- GPU Ctrl-V was a no-op. Paste
is now a dispatcher-level arm serving both attachment kinds.
- That arm keys off the dispatcher's AUTHENTICATED source; the old grid
arm trusted the client-supplied payload frontend_id, letting a forged
id paste into another frontend's active window (unit-tested).
- Paste, M-x-invoked commands, and menu-invoked commands never fired
buffer.after-edit (each runs outside dispatch_key's revision check),
so LSP/syntax/autosave missed those edits. A shared
with_after_edit_check helper now wraps all three sites; scope is
honest --- active-buffer compare, sound for these paths, not a general
any-buffer guarantee (buffer-aware edit epoch deferred).
The ring (killring.lua, Q#KR4-7): entries carry stable monotonic ids.
Append requires last_command in the kill family AND this frontend's
last_kill_id == the head's id --- A-kill/B-kill/A-kill pushes fresh
instead of corrupting B's entry. Yank sessions store {buffer, start,
stop, entry_id, text}: M-y validates last_command + live session + same
buffer + slice(start,stop) == text (out-of-bounds reads as changed ---
pcall'd; an early test caught the guard throwing on an upstream
deletion instead of refusing), rotates by locating the entry_id's
CURRENT position (positions shift under other frontends' pushes; ids
don't), verifies the applied replace (intercepts may alter it; accepted
post-hoc semantics), then goto_byte. Failed kills clear last_kill_id;
failed/refused yanks create no session, so a second invalid M-y cannot
ride the first's name-stamp.
OS clipboard: ring head mirrors to the ACTING frontend's OS clipboard
only (pending_clipboard's existing shape; frontends may be different
machines). External content joins the ring at yank time via the
clipboard_get slot check (an OS copy reaches the daemon only when
pasted). New core seams: clipboard_set(bytes) / clipboard_get.
Lifecycle (Q#KR11): SessionDetached prunes command_history and fires the
new frontend.detached hook (raw id); killring.lua drops that frontend's
tables.
pmacs.killring.max([n]) validated (non-finite rejected --- math.huge
would defeat the cap; shrink trims immediately), default 60.
Deferred, named: word kills (M-d/M-BS/C-BS/C-h/C-DEL discard bytes ---
needs bytes-returning deleters), C-SPC/set-mark, clipboard watching,
ring browser/persistence, C-u C-y / C-M-w, buffer-aware edit epoch,
Lua-visible intercept probe.
Tests: tests/kill_ring_acceptance.rs (24) --- chain mechanics incl. all
break rows, the M-x three-direction matrix, per-frontend interleaving
(A-kill/B-kill/A-kill; stable-id rotation under B's pushes; eviction
mid-session; upstream-edit invalidation), menu Cut via real right-click
+ menu pointer (feeds ring, fires after-edit once, chains with C-k),
external-paste integration, cap validation + shrink-trim, detach
cleanup. Plus daemon unit tests: forged-id paste lands in the
authenticated source's window and leaves the claimed frontend's chain
untouched; optimistic CRDT op breaks only the source's chain.
Gates: fmt + workspace clippy clean; lib 1500; crdt 1672; killring 24;
cua 5; query-replace 16; completion 9; autosave 29; desktop 11;
persistence 5; clobber 6; m4 90; m8 10+15; m10/m11 crdt; GPU 58;
git diff --check clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Levi Neuwirth
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