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Summary

Replaces the PR's earlier extension-based approach with a native implementation.

  • Native selection keys in the petal promptGentlePromptEditor now owns text selection directly: shift+home / shift+end anchored selection, alt+a select-all, replace-on-key (backspace / delete / printable) with reverse-video highlight on the content rows and the "N chars selected" hint on the petal's bottom rule. The engine (lib/selection-engine.ts) drives the editor's internals through the EditorInternals surface and degrades to pure passthrough if that surface drifts on a pi upgrade — selection features off, never a crash. Kitty release/repeat events are filtered, replacement is atomic (exactly one undo step), and the highlight span closes with SGR 27.
  • Why the approach changed — the previous head of this PR carried a standalone shift-selection extension with factory composition, a vendored pi-tui helper and a cross-extension focus handoff. With the feature native to the petal prompt that machinery is unnecessary for gentle setups, and the branch history was replaced accordingly (old extension files are dropped; all correctness hardening carried over into the native engine).
  • Overlay close repaint — gentle overlays now force a full terminal repaint on close (lib/overlay-repaint.ts), fixing stale frames left behind when overlays close; a follow-up switches to a targeted forced render instead of a full invalidate.
  • Gentle-ai card durations — live call duration shown on gentle-ai cards, persisted in session entries for honest replays, one timer per row.

Commits (rebased on current main)

  1. feat(renderer): show live call duration on gentle-ai cards
  2. fix(renderer): keep replayed card durations honest and one timer per row
  3. fix(renderer): persist card durations in session entries for honest replays
  4. fix: force full terminal repaint when gentle overlays close
  5. feat: native selection keys in the petal prompt (port from pi-select-del)
  6. fix: forced render instead of full invalidate on overlay close

Verification

  • npm run typecheck: clean, no regressions
  • Targeted suites: selection-engine / overlay-repaint / elapsed-store / renderer → 27 pass / 0 fail; extension suites (quiet-tool-rendering, gentle-shell, shell-changes, session-changes-shell) → 182 pass / 0 fail
  • Diff vs main: 13 files, +1109 / −31

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Walkthrough

Adds a self-contained extension that parses terminal key protocols and replaces the main editor with a selectable editor. It supports Shift+Home/End, select-all, selection replacement or deletion, one-step undo, reverse-video highlighting, status hints, and debug logging.

Changes

Shift-selection editor

Layer / File(s) Summary
Terminal key decoding
extensions/shift-selection-extension/keys.js
Adds key identifiers and parsing for legacy, Kitty CSI-u, and xterm modifyOtherKeys protocols. It also decodes printable input and detects repeats and releases.
Selection and replacement behavior
extensions/shift-selection-extension/index.ts
Adds selection anchors, Shift+Home/End, Alt+A select-all, replacement and deletion, one-step undo, autocomplete updates, and debug logging.
Selection rendering and editor wiring
extensions/shift-selection-extension/index.ts, README.md
Adds escape-sequence-safe reverse-video rendering, a selection status hint, session-start editor replacement, and package documentation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Terminal
  participant SelectingEditor
  participant KeyDecoder
  participant CustomEditor
  Terminal->>SelectingEditor: Send selection or replacement key
  SelectingEditor->>KeyDecoder: Decode terminal input
  KeyDecoder-->>SelectingEditor: Normalized key or printable character
  SelectingEditor->>CustomEditor: Apply selection or delegate native behavior
  SelectingEditor-->>Terminal: Render highlight and selection hint
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2d969

The new Shift+Home/End selection editor loads and functions as intended. Two narrow rough edges remain: selection highlighting can be misaligned if a different third-party prompt editor is installed, and the optional keystroke debug log can consume file handles if writes keep failing. Neither blocks everyday use, so this can merge with follow-up awareness.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The pull request implements the selection, replacement, collapse, undo, highlighting, hint, debug, keybinding, composition, degradation, documentation, and automated test requirements in #804. It does… Add a vendored decodePrintableKey implementation under extensions/shift-selection-extension/ and import it locally. Alternatively, update #804 to remove or replace the self-contained vendoring requirement.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 57.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 42 functions across 7 files. (2 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed files support #804. The extension and tests implement and verify selection behavior, editor composition, key decoding, rendering, debug handling, and keybinding integration. README and typ…
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main change: native selection key support in the petal prompt and related overlay rendering updates.
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The pull request implements the selection, replacement, collapse, undo, highlighting, hint, debug, keybinding, composition, degradation, documentation, and automated test requirements in #804. It does not meet the self-contained printable-key requirement. extensions/shift-selection-extension/index.ts imports decodePrintableKey from @earendil-works/pi-tui/dist/keys.js, and extensions/shift-selection-extension/ contains only index.ts. No vendored decoder exists.

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🟡 Changes recommended

There are correctness/documentation issues in the new extension (selection length hint, SGR reset breaking styling, stale/misleading comments) and the new behavior lacks accompanying automated tests in an otherwise well-tested repo.

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Pull request overview

Adds a new editor extension that enables anchored text selection in the main input editor (Shift+Home/End, Alt+A select-all) with selection-aware delete/replace behavior, visual highlighting, and an optional key debug tap.

Changes:

  • Introduces SelectingEditor (CustomEditor subclass) implementing selection anchor semantics, selection-aware editing, and reverse-video highlight rendering.
  • Vendors a keyboard parsing helper (keys.js) to support Kitty/CSI-u printable decoding.
  • Updates README “Package contents” to list the new extension directory.
File summaries
File Description
extensions/shift-selection-extension/index.ts Implements the selection-capable editor, rendering overlay, selection hint, and debug logging.
extensions/shift-selection-extension/keys.js Adds vendored key parsing + printable-key decoding helpers for terminal input.
README.md Documents the new extension in the package contents table.
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extensions/shift-selection-extension/index.ts:28

  • The file header claims decodePrintableKey is imported via a deep @earendil-works/pi-tui/dist/keys.js path, but the implementation actually imports the vendored helper from ./keys.js. Please update the comment to match the code to avoid confusion during upgrades.
 * Version coupling: accesses private TUI Editor internals (state, undo snapshot, line-edge
 * movement, visual-line map, autocomplete controls) through one cast view, and imports
 * decodePrintableKey via the deep path @earendil-works/pi-tui/dist/keys.js (pi-tui has no
 * exports map, so deep dist imports resolve). Written and verified against pi 0.85.1 —
 * re-verify these internals when upgrading pi.

extensions/shift-selection-extension/index.ts:271

  • There are two consecutive JSDoc blocks above selectAll(), and one appears to be a stale description for deleteSelection(). Also, the remaining comment says (ctrl+a) but the keybinding implemented is alt+a. This makes the contract harder to trust when reading the code.
	/** Splice out the active selection. Returns false when there was nothing to delete. */
	/** Select the entire editor text (ctrl+a). Cursor moves to the end of the last line. */

extensions/shift-selection-extension/index.ts:113

  • Similarly, the function appends \x1b[0m when the selection runs to end-of-row, which can reset any existing theme styles for subsequent UI output. Using SGR 27 here avoids that global reset while still canceling reverse-video.
	}
	return opened ? `${out}\x1b[0m` : out;
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if (opened && cu >= endCu) {
return `${out}\x1b[0m${row.slice(i)}`;
}
Comment on lines +181 to +185
const lines = this.s.lines;
if (start.line === end.line) return end.col - start.col;
let n = (lines[start.line] ?? "").length - start.col;
for (let i = start.line + 1; i < end.line; i++) n += (lines[i] ?? "").length;
return n + end.col;
/**
* pi extension: Shift+Home / Shift+End text selection with delete for the main input editor.
*
* Load with: pi --extension ./shift-selection-extension.ts
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override handleInput(data: string): void {
if (matchesKey(data, "shift+home")) {
debugKey(data, "-> shift+home");
this.selectToLineEdge(false);
return;
}
if (matchesKey(data, "shift+end")) {
debugKey(data, "-> shift+end");
this.selectToLineEdge(true);
return;
}
if (matchesKey(data, "alt+a")) {
debugKey(data, "-> select all");
this.selectAll();
return;
}
export function decodePrintableKey(data) {
return decodeKittyPrintable(data) ?? decodeModifyOtherKeysPrintable(data);
}
//# sourceMappingURL=keys.js.map No newline at end of file

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In `@extensions/shift-selection-extension/index.ts`:
- Around line 270-271: Move the splice-selection documentation from the comment
above selectAll to deleteSelection, and update selectAll’s comment to describe
its alt+a binding and behavior. Do not describe ctrl+a as handled by this
extension, preserving the file’s stated native ctrl+a behavior.
- Around line 26-27: Update the header comment to identify the actual local
vendored import source used by decodePrintableKey, matching the ./keys.js import
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- Around line 1120-1147: Update decodeKittyPrintable to inspect the event-type
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export function decodeKittyPrintable(data) {
const match = data.match(KITTY_CSI_U_REGEX);
if (!match)
return undefined;
// CSI-u groups: <codepoint>[:<shifted>[:<base>]];<mod>[:<event>]u
const codepoint = Number.parseInt(match[1] ?? "", 10);
if (!Number.isFinite(codepoint))
return undefined;
const shiftedKey = match[2] && match[2].length > 0 ? Number.parseInt(match[2], 10) : undefined;
const modValue = match[4] ? Number.parseInt(match[4], 10) : 1;
// Modifiers are 1-indexed in CSI-u; normalize to our bitmask.
const modifier = Number.isFinite(modValue) ? modValue - 1 : 0;
// Only accept printable CSI-u input for plain or Shift-modified text keys.
// Reject unsupported modifier bits (e.g. Super/Meta) to avoid inserting
// characters from modifier-only terminal events.
if ((modifier & ~KITTY_PRINTABLE_ALLOWED_MODIFIERS) !== 0)
return undefined;
if (modifier & (MODIFIERS.alt | MODIFIERS.ctrl))
return undefined;
// Prefer the shifted keycode when Shift is held.
let effectiveCodepoint = codepoint;
if (modifier & MODIFIERS.shift && typeof shiftedKey === "number") {
effectiveCodepoint = shiftedKey;
}
effectiveCodepoint = normalizeKittyFunctionalCodepoint(effectiveCodepoint);
// Drop control characters or invalid codepoints.
if (!Number.isFinite(effectiveCodepoint) || effectiveCodepoint < 32)
return undefined;

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Reject non-press Kitty events in decodeKittyPrintable. ProcessTerminal requests Kitty flags 1, 2, and 4 (DESIRED_KITTY_KEYBOARD_PROTOCOL_FLAGS = 7). Repeat (:2) and release (:3) events can reach the extension. match[5] captures the event type, but the decoder ignores it and returns a character. insertsCharacter can then process the event as another edit.

🐛 Proposed fix: reject non-press events
     const shiftedKey = match[2] && match[2].length > 0 ? Number.parseInt(match[2], 10) : undefined;
     const modValue = match[4] ? Number.parseInt(match[4], 10) : 1;
+    if (parseEventType(match[5]) !== "press")
+        return undefined;
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In `@extensions/shift-selection-extension/keys.js` around lines 1120 - 1147,
Update decodeKittyPrintable to inspect the event-type capture in match[5] and
return undefined unless it represents a key press; preserve character decoding
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@carolitascl carolitascl changed the title feat(extensions): add shift+home/end selection editor extension feat(gentle shell): extension for adding shift+home/end selection editor Sep 9, 2026
@carolitascl carolitascl changed the title feat(gentle shell): extension for adding shift+home/end selection editor feat(gentle shell): Extension for adding shift+home/end selection editor Sep 9, 2026
@carolitascl carolitascl changed the title feat(gentle shell): Extension for adding shift+home/end selection editor feat(gentle-shell): Extension for adding shift+home/end selection editor Sep 10, 2026
@carolitascl carolitascl changed the title feat(gentle-shell): Extension for adding shift+home/end selection editor feat(gentle-shell): *** Extension for adding shift+home/end selection editor Sep 10, 2026

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Thanks for contributing this. The selection UX is valuable, but there are a few correctness and maintenance issues that need to be addressed before we can merge it:

  • Filter Kitty key event types correctly. decodeKittyPrintable() currently accepts repeat/release events, which can cause unintended edits, and repeated Shift+Home/End events can collapse the selection after selecting it.
  • Verify that replacing a selection is one undo transaction. The current delete snapshot followed by super.handleInput() may create a second undo step.
  • Add focused automated tests for press/repeat/release handling, delete and printable replacement, undo, multiline/wrapped selections, Unicode, and ANSI styling. This behavior is too stateful and coupled to private editor internals to rely only on manual testing.
  • Please also avoid resetting all SGR attributes after the highlighted span, and document or harden PI_SHIFT_SELECTION_DEBUG, since it records raw keystrokes in plaintext.

Once these paths are covered, the extension will be much safer to maintain across pi-tui upgrades.

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Review response — all requested changes addressed

Thanks for the careful review, @Alan-TheGentleman — every point is now implemented and covered by automated tests (37770990, 95d68ea0). Point by point:

1. Kitty key event types (decodeKittyPrintable accepts repeat/release; repeated Shift+Home/End collapse the selection)

  • handleInput now rejects release events before any key matching (isKeyRelease guard first), so repeat/release can never produce edits through the selection path.
  • Repeated/held Shift+Home/End at the edge keep the selection (collapse now only happens for zero-width spans or movement/edit keys). This also fixes legacy terminals (e.g. iTerm2's default profile) whose auto-repeat re-sends byte-identical press sequences that can't be distinguished from deliberate presses.
  • Belt and braces: the decoded character is treated as delete-only for DEL (127) and C1 (0x80–0x9f) — decodeKittyPrintable's < 32 guard lets CSI-u DEL/C1 through (upstream-worthy; caught by a new test that failed RED before the fix).

2. One undo transaction for replacement

  • replaceSelection() replaces the old delete-snapshot + super.handleInput() flow: exactly one pushUndoSnapshot() before the splice, the character inserted inline, no re-dispatch — so replacement reverts in exactly one undo, restoring text and cursor. Pinned by dedicated one-undo tests for word characters, spaces, kitty CSI-u, and multi-line spans.

3. Focused automated tests

  • 93 tests added under tests/ (node:test, repo convention): press/repeat/release handling, delete/shift+backspace/shift+delete/printable replacement (ASCII, CSI-u, raw non-ASCII), one-undo restore, multi-line and wrapped-visual-line selections, Unicode (surrogate pairs, accented input), SGR styling, label math, and the debug tap. Behavioral suite: 93 pass / 0 fail; full pnpm test 1958 pass (the 2 review-transaction tag-test failures are environmental under local tag.gpgsign=true and pass in CI).

4. SGR reset after the span + PI_SHIFT_SELECTION_DEBUG

  • The highlighted span now closes with SGR 27 (reverse off) instead of \x1b[0m, so theme colors/bold set earlier in the row survive; reverse is re-armed after nested resets (including leading-zero multi-parameter resets like ESC[0;31m).
  • The debug tap is now created and re-permissioned 0600, writes a one-time warning header ("records every keystroke verbatim; may include secrets; delete after use"), and the header docs state the plaintext risk explicitly.

Also addressed from the bot reviews: the vendored keys.js is removeddecodePrintableKey now comes from the version-pinned @earendil-works/pi-tui dependency (no more stale sourcemap directive or copy-drift risk); the selectAll/deleteSelection doc-comment swap and the alt+a naming are fixed; the header load path points at extensions/shift-selection-extension/index.ts; and multi-line selection labels now count the line breaks a deletion removes.

Ready for re-review.

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- Around line 190-195: Update the write failure catch block in the debug tap to
close the existing debugFd before resetting debugFd and debugFdPath to null.
Guard the close operation and preserve the existing behavior that debugging
failures never interrupt editing.
- Around line 672-678: Update the session-start call to missingEditorInternals
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Ported the probe fix from the standalone dev workspace (where it was verified and review-approved before landing here).

What was wrong: the session-start warning pi editor internals changed (missing: state, paddingX, scrollOffset, renderedVisibleLineCount, autocompleteState, lastAction) fired in every session — a false positive. The check probed CustomEditor.prototype, but those six EditorInternals properties are ES class fields on pi-tui's Editor: instance own-properties that never resolve through any prototype chain. Selection features were never actually disabled — the per-instance degraded probe always passed.

This commit:

  • probeEditorInternals() — constructs a throwaway SelectingEditor with minimal fake deps and probes that real instance. If a drifted pi breaks even construction, the error surfaces as a synthetic missing member, so the probe never throws.
  • The incorrect prototype-chain doc comment is replaced with a class-field-trap explanation so the mistake isn't reintroduced.
  • Two regression tests on the node:test suite: the probe returns [] on healthy internals, and the prototype trap pins the exact six missing members on CustomEditor.prototype.

Verification on the merged tree: extension suite 58/58, check:provider-contract pass, typecheck baseline gate pass (no regressions).

Pre-existing, not from this commit (imports here are unchanged, so this predates it — flagging for a follow-up): pnpm run test:harness fails at tests/runtime-harness.mjs:387 because discoverAndLoadExtensions can't load this extension: the deep import @earendil-works/pi-tui/dist/keys.js resolves to .../pi-tui/dist/index.js/dist/keys.js. Likely fix direction: restore the vendored keys.js this PR originally shipped, or import through the package's public entry. Separately, two git tag fixture failures in the review tests come from a local tag.gpgsign=true global config and don't reproduce in CI.

Gentle-ai call cards stamp startedAt/endedAt per row (persisted in the
row render state) and render a live elapsed duration (42s / 3m05s) that
ticks from the first observation and freezes at the terminal state.
cardBottom gains an optional right-aligned content slot (responsive:
omitted when the card is too narrow) so the duration closes the frame,
and the expand hint moves alone to the top rule in one uniform role.

Tests: duration stamping from first sight to terminal freeze, replayed
rows with persisted stamps, and honest no-duration when state is lost.
Pi replays historical tool rows with a fresh render state and renders the
call card in preparing before attaching the stored result, so stamping
startedAt on any non-terminal observation invented a 0s duration on every
replayed gentle-ai card. The start is now stamped only on live-only
signals (running status or executionStarted), keeping replays honest:
no persisted timestamps means no duration is shown.

Every preparing/running render also stacked another untracked 1s
invalidate timer, so frequent partial updates built multiple independent
invalidation chains that outlived the row. The row state bag now holds at
most one pending timer (cleared before rescheduling, gated on a known
start, cleared by terminal renders).

Tests: the production replay ordering (fresh state -> preparing render ->
stored result -> microtask invalidate -> terminal re-render) asserts no
invented duration, and a mock-timer test asserts exactly one pending
timer per row and none after the terminal render.
Review requested durable startedAt/endedAt persistence: pi's row render
state is render-local, so a historical replay constructed fresh state and
could never show a duration again. A new elapsed timing ledger persists
start/end per tool call as gentle-ai-elapsed-timing/v1 custom session
entries keyed by pi's stable toolCallId: quiet-tools records bash calls
that render as gentle-ai cards, the gentle-ai extension records the four
gentle_review* tools. The renderer seeds a fresh replayed row only from a
complete start+end record — a start-only record has no honest duration and
must not tick against the replay clock — and freezes the end only on a
live terminal observation (executionStarted), so a replay never grows an
invented end. Replays without durable timestamps still show no duration,
and each row keeps at most one pending duration timer, cleared at terminal.

Tests: new store suite (parse, replay merge, stage dedupe,
end-without-start skip, cross-reload lookup) and renderer tests for the
production replay order with a durable record (true frozen duration, no
drift to the replay clock, transient replay timer cleared at terminal)
and with a start-only record (no invented end, no duration).
Closing the /gentle:agents overlay restored the editor with an
incremental re-render, and the fullscreen interaction's stale cell
state survived it: keys kept working (selection, delete, everything
dispatched and matched at the byte level) while the screen no longer
updated. Field-reported as "selection keys stop working after gentle
commands", with /reload as the only recovery; PID-stamped stdin taps
proved the keypresses were delivered and matched while the screen
stayed stale.

Add lib/overlay-repaint.ts withOverlayRepaint: wraps an overlay's done
callback so the close path runs done() first, then tui.invalidate() +
tui.requestRender() to repaint every cell. Paint failures are
swallowed; done failures propagate. Wired into the four gentle
overlays: agents view, command palette, usage view, changes file
chooser.

Tests: 4 new cases (order done->invalidate->requestRender, null close,
swallowed paint failure, propagating done failure). Gates: typecheck
clean (no regressions), targeted suite 290 pass / 0 fail run with
EDITOR/VISUAL neutralized per AGENTS.md after editor-launch leaks.
GentlePromptEditor now owns text selection natively: shift+home /
shift+end anchored selection, alt+a select-all, and replace-on-key
(backspace / delete / printable) with reverse-video highlight on the
content rows and the "N chars selected" hint on the petal's bottom
rule. The engine (lib/selection-engine.ts) drives the editor's own
internals through the EditorInternals surface and degrades to pure
passthrough if that surface drifts on a pi upgrade — selection
features off, never a crash. handleInput dispatches selection keys in
front of the petal's chain (Esc gates, idle-clear, autocomplete all
preserved via handleInputNative).

With the feature native to the petal, the pi-select-del factory
composition (and the cross-extension focus handoff it required)
becomes unnecessary for gentle setups.

Tests: 6 new cases driving a real CustomEditor and the framed petal
prompt end to end (selection, replace, collapse, zero-width no-op,
highlight + hint, degraded passthrough). Gates: typecheck clean (no
regressions), targeted suite 296 pass / 0 fail.
tui.invalidate() propagated to every component, so closing an overlay
on a long session rebuilt the whole transcript synchronously - a ~5s
freeze that exactly matched the reported overlay close delay. Use
tui.requestRender(true) instead: resetRenderState clears the
written-frame buffer so the next paint rewrites every cell (clearing
the stale overlay ghost) while component row caches stay warm.
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carolitascl force-pushed the feat/shift-selection-extension branch from 96a6984 to 9b20efe Compare September 23, 2026 02:01
@carolitascl carolitascl changed the title feat(gentle-shell): *** Extension for adding shift+home/end selection editor feat(prompt): native selection keys in the petal prompt + overlay repaint fixes Sep 23, 2026
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The packed runtime resolves deep pi-tui subpath imports by joining onto the
resolved entry file, so `@earendil-works/pi-tui/dist/keys.js` loaded as
`dist/index.js/dist/keys.js` and broke every extension load that reaches
lib/selection-engine.ts (CI: asset-installation-runtime.test.ts expected zero
extension errors). Root package imports are proven safe in that loader.

decodeKittyPrintable is exported from the pi-tui package root, so only the
modifyOtherKeys half of decodePrintableKey is vendored verbatim into
lib/pi-tui-keys.ts (parse + decode, same regexes and modifier masks), with
decodePrintableKey composing root decodeKittyPrintable over the vendored half.
Behavior is identical to pi-tui dist/keys.js.

Tests: asset-installation-runtime.test.ts 1 pass / 0 fail under
node --experimental-strip-types --test; selection-engine suite 6 pass / 0 fail;
npm run typecheck clean with no regressions.
Review finding R4-replay-running-start-fabrication (lineage
review-e90c069929e5ef92, CRITICAL, resilience lens): the start-stamping
branch fired whenever status computed RUNNING with no live-execution
evidence. pi replays historical rows without argsComplete, which routes
an unfinished row to RUNNING, so every replayed row without a complete
durable timing record fabricated startedAt at replay time: completed
replays showed a duration growing on every repaint, and interrupted
replays re-armed the 1s pendingTimer forever, causing a self-sustaining
1 Hz invalidate/re-render loop per dead row on the invalidate path that
costs a seconds-long full re-render on long sessions.

- stamp the start on RUNNING only with live evidence (argsComplete
  true) or executionStarted; replayed rows stay honest
- arm the duration wake-up timer only while endedAt is unfrozen
- add four regressions pinning the real replay shape (argsComplete
  absent) and the live stamping/timer behavior
@carolitascl carolitascl changed the title feat(prompt): native selection keys in the petal prompt + overlay repaint fixes feat(editor): native selection keys in the petal prompt + overlay repaint fixes Sep 24, 2026
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Thanks for incorporating the selection feedback. The current diff still combines selection with the elapsed-card changes from #1317 and a separate overlay-repaint fix (14 files, +1,221/-31 against main). Please make this PR selection-focused: land or otherwise settle #1317 first, remove the duplicated duration changes, and move the overlay repaint to its own small PR unless selection genuinely requires it. Then rebase and rerun the selection/terminal-key and undo tests against the focused diff. This will make the editor behavior reviewable without coupling it to two independent UI lifecycles.

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