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Neil a3c96136db fix(xterm): keep a live composition across a lone Cmd press on macOS
CompositionHelper.keydown exempted keyCodes 16/17/18 from tearing a composition
down, which covers Shift/Ctrl/Alt but not macOS Meta — 91/93 in Chromium, 224 in
Firefox. A lone Cmd press mid-composition therefore reached
_finalizeComposition(false), which dropped the preedit overlay's `active` class
and committed the live syllable early. macOS keeps the marked text alive across
that press, so no later compositionstart re-arms the overlay and the rest of the
word composes invisibly.

Measured on hardware (m4air, macOS 26.5.2, Apple M4, 2-Set Korean) with the Cmd
posted as a CGEventType.flagsChanged, which is what a physical modifier emits.
AppleScript `key code 55` posts nothing a browser can see — a bare `key code 56`
for Shift is equally silent — which is why no capture in the corpus ever reached
this branch. Three arms, same build otherwise: overlay live throughout with the
exemption, dark and prematurely committed without it, live again with it
restored. Evidence under
.tmp/ime-handoff/swarm-scratch/wave31-cmd-preedit/evidence/.

The fix cannot widen past a lone modifier: only a standalone press reports these
keyCodes, and a Cmd chord during composition is reported by Chromium as 229,
which was already exempt. Cmd+A still ends the composition, via the IME's own
compositionend. Ghostty draws the same line, returning early from flagsChanged
under hasMarkedText() for every modifier including Super.

Orca's terminal pane was never affected — shouldSuppressTerminalModifierKeyboardEvent
drops a standalone Meta keydown before xterm sees it, and deleting only 'Meta'
from that set is what flipped the hardware arm to broken. The popout preview
terminal and mobile's webview install no such guard and did reach the teardown.

terminal-ime-xterm-composition-commit-overlap.test.ts asked its fixer to update
the two Cmd arms to the values it named as correct; both now emit a single ['한'].
2026-08-07 04:46:44 -07:00
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