Dialog: use consistent cl-tty.dialog: prefix for all select accessors.
The :cl-tty.select and :cl-tty.dialog packages each define their own
SELECT class with separate accessor generic functions. Mixing prefixes
caused "no applicable method" errors. Now all 14 references use
cl-tty.dialog: (make-select, select-filter, select-next, etc.)
Sidebar: fix sidebar-lines append arguments. Each item must be a
proper list of cons cells, not a bare cons. Replaced all quoted
'("x" . :y) with (list (cons "x" :y)). Also fixed the quoted
cons call that was never evaluated.
Bash script: add --disable-debugger and --eval '(uiop:quit 0)' to
the tui sbcl invocation. Prevents the debugger from entering raw
terminal mode on error and ensures clean exit.
cl-tty: delete stale select-package.lisp and select.lisp orphan files
(not tangled by any current org file).
Sidebar: replace manual (incf y) tracking with flat list construction.
sidebar-lines returns (text . color-key) pairs; view-sidebar loops
over them. Version footer stays at h-2. No more fragile y arithmetic.
Input panel: use cl-tty.input text-input's render method instead of
manual word-wrap + cursor-position computation. Layout node set each
frame for dynamic position.
Chat: extract msg->pairs (message to renderable lines) and render-pair
(draw one line pair) as separate functions. Replace reverse-iteration
scroll culling with forward scan that skips by scroll-offset. Same
behavior, less nesting.
Phases 1-3 of library/application boundary cleanup:
Phase 1: Remove dead code (150 lines)
- Delete local word-wrap (all callers already used cl-tty.box:word-wrap)
- Delete parse-markdown-spans, render-styled, parse-markdown-blocks,
syntax-highlight (all unused — view uses cl-tty.markdown directly)
- Replace tests with cl-tty.markdown equivalents
Phase 2: Migrate theme to cl-tty.theme (250 lines removed)
- Replace *tui-theme*/*tui-theme-presets* with *theme* + define-preset
- theme-switch/theme-save/theme-load delegate to cl-tty.theme
- theme-color is now a 3-line wrapper
- Added save-theme/load-theme to cl-tty.theme (38 lines added there)
Phase 3: Fix dialog arrow navigation with select-handle-key
- Replace broken manual key dispatch with cl-tty.dialog:select-handle-key
- The old code had a dead (and ch (graphic-char-p ch)) — the and result
was discarded, so every unhandled key ran (code-char key-code) against
the filter unconditionally, inserting garbage on arrow keys
- view-chat draw-text calls: change nil bg to (theme-color :bg)
so text characters sit on explicit near-black instead of terminal
default background (which appears as grey highlight)
- cl-tty bump (v1.2.0: remove \n from draw-rect that caused scroll
leaving the last row blank)
Replace queue-based key dispatch with process-key-event (inline in reader,
zero latency between keypress and render).
Add with-frame to cl-tty.backend (error-safe begin-sync/end-sync wrapper).
Use with-frame in redraw instead of manual begin-sync/end-sync.
Add initial render before main loop (UI appears before first read-event).
Remove position-cursor (replaced by inline block cursor in view-input).
Remove input-string/input-insert-char/input-delete-char wrappers.
Remove :input-buffer/:cursor-pos from state (managed by text-input widget).
passepartout script: set *debugger-hook* nil and failure-behaviour :warn
before quickload to survive compile warnings; remove cache-clear line.
Removed local definitions of char-width (dead code) and search-highlight
(now uses cl-tty.markdown:search-highlight). Moved char-width tests to
cl-tty's box-tests.
The typecase guard, explicit navigation keyword dispatch, and word-wrap
cursor calculation changes introduced two regressions:
1. Cursor shows letter before instead of on (off-by-one)
2. Right arrow sometimes moves backward
Reverting to e04b12c which had working arrow keys and single-line cursor.
The unconditional position-cursor fix will be re-applied separately.
Removed (position-cursor fb w h) from inside redraw (which is gated by dirty
flags), and from inside the dialog-guarded (unless dialog* ...) block in the
main loop. Added unconditional (position-cursor be w h) at loop body level so
it runs every single iteration regardless of dirty state or dialog activity.
This ensures the cursor highlight always tracks cursor-pos correctly.
The position-cursor function now uses cursor-line/cursor-col stored by
view-input instead of recomputing from scratch, guaranteeing alignment
with the rendered text. The boundary check uses (< pos (+ accum len))
to avoid falsely matching the first character of the next wrapped line.
Removed the speculative reset-recovery code that sent cursor to end
when pos was 0, since that broke legitimate navigation to the
beginning of the input.
Removed dependency on (st :cursor-line) and (st :cursor-col) state.
position-cursor now does its own word-wrap and accum tracking to
determine which wrapped line and column the cursor is on. This makes
it independent of view-input's rendering state.
view-input now stores cursor-line and cursor-col in state after
word-wrapping. position-cursor uses these to place the cursor on
the correct wrapped line, instead of the hardcoded row (- h 6)
which always put the cursor on the first line.
Phase 1 of cl-tty abstraction: remove 5 dead functions (word-wrap,
char-width, parse-markdown-spans, parse-markdown-blocks, render-styled,
syntax-highlight) and their tests. Switch 2 remaining word-wrap calls
to cl-tty.box:word-wrap.
- ROADMAP: consolidate all TUI work under v0.8.0 (removed premature
v0.9.0/v0.10.x labels), restored original v0.9.0 eval harness plan
- channel-tui-view.org: Emacs-style reverse-video cursor (swap fg/bg
instead of drawing █), hint bar now shows F:focus/MCP:count on left
and token gauge + keybindings on right, sidebar reorganized to show
GATE TRACE, RULES + BLOCK COUNT, COST, FILES panels
- channel-tui-main.org: command palette selection now uses reverse-video
highlight (bg-input fg on input-fg bg, matching cursor style), fixed
cond order so sel-p is checked before cat (all items had :category
making sel-p unreachable), added session-cost extraction from daemon
- passepartout: export COLORTERM=truecolor for modern backend detection
Replaced reverse-video cursor with a solid █ block in :input-prompt
color (amber). Drawn at the insertion point every frame from redraw
and main loop. finish-output ensures the cursor escape reaches the
terminal immediately.
Replaced the software blinking █ cursor with a reverse-video cursor
that swaps foreground and background colors at the insertion point.
Solid at all times — no blink logic, no state tracking, no flicker.
- Removed duplicate cursor-visible-p functions
- Removed software cursor draw from view-input
- Removed terminal cursor style/show from initialize-backend
- position-cursor draws character at cursor with :bg fg + :input-fg bg
position-cursor now called at end of redraw so the cursor appears
on the very first frame and after every keypress without a 100ms
delay. Also still called from main loop between sleep for blinking.
position-cursor runs every frame from main loop (after sleep 0.1),
drawing █ when cursor-visible-p returns T, space when NIL.
This creates a true 2Hz blink that toggles independently of keypresses.
Terminal cursor also set to blinking block as fallback.
Replaced software cursor (draw-text █ every frame) with native terminal
cursor (position-cursor using cursor-move + cursor-style). Terminal handles
blinking natively at 500ms — no redraw needed for cursor updates.
- position-cursor: computed input insertion point from state, calls
cursor-move + cursor-style (:block :blink t) + cursor-show.
- Called from main loop every frame after (sleep 0.1), outside
redraw's begin-sync/end-sync. No flicker.
view-input word-wraps input at prompt-w, expanding the grey panel
upward as needed. Uses software cursor (█) in :input-fg blinking
at 2Hz via get-internal-real-time.
view-chat max-lines adapts to variable panel height via input-panel-top.
Removed terminal cursor (position-cursor, cursor-show, cursor-style).
Dialog minibuffer top now computed from input-panel-top.
Clean implementation: spacer inserted in the rendering loop as an
(incf y) between message blocks, tracked in scroll-fitting loop
via spacer variable. No data structure changes.
Also: fixed premature let close in spacer binding, fixed view-input
closing paren count, and re-applied speaker alignment fixes lost in
revert.
- Theme: added :agent-border, :thinking-bg, :symbolic-border to all 13
presets with theme-load fallback for saved themes.
- Agent output now draws │ with :agent-border color (muted tan).
- Neuro-thinking (streaming): draw-rect at column 0 with :thinking-bg
(dark grey block) instead of a grey │ character. No border text.
- Gate traces: │ with :symbolic-border (was ╎ with :dim).
- Tool calls: │ with tool status color (was ╎).
- Removed > prompt prefix from input line.
- Added position-cursor function: blinking block cursor at insertion
point, called every frame from the main loop after sleep.
- redraw: always draws all three views (status/chat/input) when any
dirty flag is set. Dirty flags only gate frame rendering, not
which parts render. Fixes disappearing input/history.
- Added :bg-input to all 13 presets with #2e2e2e (dark) / #d4d4d4
(light-amber). theme-load fills missing keys from current preset
defaults for backward compatibility.
- Removed unused *sidebar-panels* defvar and obsolete contract docs.
- Renamed dim-bg → dim-fg (foreground color, not background).
- All draw-text calls in sidebar and dialog minibuffer now pass
explicit bg-panel, preventing background leaks.
- render-styled (markdown renderer) passes explicit (theme-color :bg).
- Fix h shadowing in view-chat scroll loop (h → mh).
- Theme: near-black (#0a0a0a) backgrounds, dark-grey panels (#141414),
warm amber (#fab283) accent only. New keys: :bg, :bg-panel, :bg-element,
:text-muted. All 13 presets updated.
- Messages: No background fills (sit on global black). User messages get
amber left border (│). Agent response has no border (invisible).
Streaming agent messages get grey left border. Gate traces and tool
calls use grey ╎ prefix. No label lines, no time separators.
- Sidebar: :sidebar-mode with :auto/:visible/:hidden. Auto-shows at >120
cols (opencode-style). Width 42 with version + connection dot footer.
- Input: 2-char hpad on each side. Grey panel (2 rows: separator +
prompt). Hint right-aligned at bottom on black.
- Status bar: empty (clean black line).
- cl-tty backend: draw-text, draw-rect, draw-link, draw-border now use
\e[22;23;24;25;27m (style-only reset) instead of \e[0m (full reset),
preserving foreground/background across draw calls.
- Fix: all sidebar text draws pass explicit bg-panel background.
- Fix: hint at h-1 passes explicit (theme-color :bg).
- Fix: sidebar bottom row uses draw-text (no \n) to prevent scroll at h-1.
passepartout script:
- Add (uiop:quit 0) after tui-main so SBCL exits on Ctrl+Q
- Remove exec to allow stty restore after sbcl subprocess
- Restore icanon echo ixon after TUI exits (terminal stuck raw)
channel-tui-view.org:
- Remove unused fb/h vars from test-sidebar-not-shown-narrow
- Add (declare (ignore w)) to render-styled
- Qualify theme-color as passepartout.channel-tui:theme-color
(render-styled is in :passepartout package)
- Remove dead :url clause from pick in parse-markdown-spans
(URLs handled by dedicated branch, not via pick)
- Update literate prose for all changes
- Added -ixon to stty so Ctrl+Q (XON byte) isn't swallowed by the
terminal driver and reaches the TUI as :CTRL-Q
- view-input now truncates the prompt (> prefix + visible text) to
chat-w - 2 characters, and the hint to chat-w characters, so
neither extends into the sidebar area
Added chat-w = w - sidebar_width calculation in view-status and
view-input, matching view-chat's existing approach. Also added
chat-w for the separator line drawing in tui-main. This prevents
the prompt, separator, hint, and status bar from extending into
the sidebar area when it's visible.
- Sidebar threshold lowered from 120 to 60 so it works on 83-col
terminals
- Agent response text is now word-wrapped through cl-tty.box:word-wrap
after markdown rendering, preventing text from bleeding past the
terminal edge
- Added chat-w = w - sidebar-width in view-chat for all width
calculations (word-wrap, padding, borders) so text doesn't
bleed into the sidebar area
- Changed Ctrl+B dirty flags from (list t t nil) to (list t t t)
so input view also redraws, fixing the toggle-not-turning-off issue
view-input drew prompt first (row h-3), then hint (row h-2),
leaving the cursor at end of the hint line after 'complete'.
Typed characters appeared there. Swapped order: hint first,
prompt last, so cursor ends at the > prompt.
- Changed all 50 org file :tangle targets from ../lisp/ to
~/.local/share/passepartout/lisp/ (XDG data dir)
- Removed 49 generated .lisp files from project lisp/ directory
- Removed tests/system-integration-tests.lisp (generated)
- Removed lisp/*.fasl (compiled, stale)
- Updated core-manifest.org to tangle .asd to XDG root
- Remapped quicklisp symlink: local-projects/passepartout → XDG
TUI fixes in channel-tui-main.org:
- Removed with-raw-terminal (stty raw breaks fd 0 reads in this SBCL)
- Use cat subprocess + pipe for keyboard input (via :input :interactive)
- Blocking read-char on pipe with with-timeout 0.1s for daemon processing
- Key events queued via drain-queue alongside daemon messages
- Full dialog key routing (Escape, Up/Down, Enter, filters, Backspace)
- SIGWINCH resize handling
- Post-handshake backend-size re-query
- Daemon version in status bar (was v0.5.0 hardcoded)
- Handshake version stored in state, no add-msg
- :daemon-version and :size-queried in state plist
- view-status uses draw-rect for background
- Test section gated with #+passepartout-tests
draw-rect has no method on raw arrays (only on framebuffer-backend,
simple-backend, modern-backend). Three calls in view-status, view-chat,
and view-sidebar passed the framebuffer array to draw-rect, causing
'no applicable method' crash on startup.
Replaced with (draw-text ... (make-string w #\Space) nil bg) which
fills the same area with background spaces.
Complete rewrite of the TUI with warm amber/gold color palette and
clean three-zone layout (chat top, input bottom, status very bottom).
1. Layout restructure: input at y=h-3, hint at y=h-2, status at y=h-1
2. Warm palette: 20-key amber/gold theme, 8 warm presets
3. Readline keybindings: Ctrl+A/E/U/W/K/Y/L/D/F/G in :global keymap
4. Chat messages: user boxes (┌─└─), agent headers, collapsible tools
5. Command palette: Ctrl+P top-centered overlay, warm colors
6. Sidebar: Ctrl+B toggle, right panel with focus/rules/context/MCP
7. Keybindings: :ctrl+x, :?, mouse wheel support
8. Search: existing /search with match highlighting
9. Help overlay: ? shows keybinding and command reference
- Add missing word-wrap function (was declared in contract but never defined)
- TUI now renders correctly: draw-text on framebuffer arrays works
- Daemon connection verified
- All three view functions (status, chat, input) call draw-text correctly
- Remove dead croatoan-to-tty-event keymap dispatch clause from on-key
- Replace all (st :key) with (getf *state* :key) and all
(setf (st :key) val) with (setf (getf *state* :key) val)
to avoid SBCL cross-file SETF expander issues (239 replacements)
- Fix redraw arity: called with 4 args but defined with 3
- TUI now loads, initializes, and connects to daemon successfully
- Replace numeric key code dispatch with cl-tty keyword events
- Replace Croatoan code-key/key-name normalization with direct keyword dispatch
- Update main loop to construct Ctrl-key keywords from cl-tty key-event modifiers
- Remove croatoan-to-tty-event compatibility shim and its test
- Remove duplicate Esc handling from main loop (now handled by on-key)
- Update all documentation contracts, prose, docstrings to remove Croatoan refs
- Remove :croatoan from package dependencies
- All event handling now goes through cl-tty keymaps or keyword dispatch
v0.8.0: Information Radiator now built on cl-tty v1.1.0. Minibuffer
uses cl-tty Dialog stack. New TODO items: conversation view (ScrollBox
+ Markdown), command palette (Select), sidebar (slot system), status bar
(Box + Theme), keybindings (keymap).
v0.9.1: Emacs is now an optional secondary client, not the primary
bridge. cl-tty is the primary TUI.
Bug fixes:
- Fix box() calls: set color-pair before box, pass ACS default chtype integers
- Fix markdown functions: move to passepartout.channel-tui package where
Croatoan is imported; use add-attributes/remove-attributes instead of
:bold/:underline kwargs to add-string; call theme-color in gate-trace-lines
to convert theme keys to Croatoan colors
- Fix sandbox: remove dex:get/dex:post from restricted symbols
(blocked neuro-provider from loading)
- Export *log-lock* from passepartout (was unbound in jailed skill packages)
- Fix configure: always deploy to XDG, skip cp when source==dest
- Fix bash crash handler format string (~~ escaping)
- Revert test reorder in 28 files (caused package leakage in skill loader)
Design cleanup:
- Extract tui-run-screen from tui-main for clean separation
- Remove inject-stimulus alias
- Merge *backend-registry* into *probabilistic-backends*
- Fix read-framed-message whitespace DoS (4096-iteration max)
- Add *read-eval* nil to dispatcher-approvals-process read-from-string
