When / is typed on an empty input with no dialog open, open the
command palette with "/" pre-filled in the filter instead of
inserting / into the text buffer. Ctrl+P still opens the palette
without a pre-filled filter.
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
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
Issue 1 — flickering during typing/updating:
- Wrap every frame render in DECICM sync (begin-sync/end-sync) so the
terminal defers rendering until the entire frame is written
- Replace backend-clear (ESC[2J full clear) with draw-rect background
fill — eliminates visible blank frame between redraws
- These two changes together eliminate all visible tearing/flicker
Issue 2 — bottom-anchored minibuffer (Emacs-style):
- Replace centered overlay dialog with bottom-anchored minibuffer
that expands upward from the input line
- Unified command menu: Ctrl+P and / both open the same menu with
all 35+ commands (slash + daemon), dispatch by value type
- Filter prompt at h-3 (same position as normal input),
options listed above, grows up to 15 lines
- No full-screen dim backdrop — just clear the minibuffer area
Issue 3 — color schemes:
- Add 5 new presets: catppuccin, tokyonight, dracula, gemini, mono
- Total: 13 presets (up from 8)
- Update /theme completion list and help text
Also fixed: pre-existing unbalanced paren in tui-main (missing close)
- 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
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
- 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.
Search mode activated by /search <query>. State fields: :search-mode,
:search-query, :search-matches, :search-match-idx. Up/Down arrows
navigate between matches, Enter jumps to current match, Escape exits.
search-highlight wraps matching substrings in **bold** for markdown
rendering. View-chat shows search header bar with match count and
current position.
- channel-tui-state: 4 search state fields in init-state
- channel-tui-main: modified /search handler, search-mode key handlers
(Up/Down/Enter/Escape), 3 new tests (activate, escape, nav)
- channel-tui-view: search-highlight fn, search header bar,
highlighted content in count+render loops
- TUI Main: 97/98 (1 pre-existing flake) View: 29/29
Gate trace lines rendered below each agent message in dim color.
Collapsed-gates state field for Tab toggle (default: visible).
Uses passepartout::gate-trace-lines for colored entries.
- channel-tui-view: view-chat renders gate-trace after message content
- channel-tui-state: :collapsed-gates field in init-state
- View tests: 29/29 (1 new state-field test)
char-width: contract 5, 4 tests (6 assertions), 100% pass
ASCII=1, CJK/Hangul/Kana/halfwidth=2, combining marks=0, tab=8
Pure Lisp, ~25 lines, no deps. Used by word-wrap for unicode.
status bar: contract 6, timestamp right-aligned at (- w 12)
Fixes overlap where focus map and timestamp both drew at :y 2 :x 1
