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l0ng-aiandClaude Opus 5 3fd523e1b9 feat(diff): make the sidebar diff preview optional and bound its cost
Clicking a sidebar row's `+N −N` opens the working-tree diff overlay. On a big
tree that could stall the window, and not everyone wants an in-app diff viewer
in the first place.

Two halves, matching the report.

The setting: `sidebar_diff_preview` (Settings → Window & Tabs, on by default,
persisted in `config.json`). Off, the branch and the counts stay exactly where
they are and read exactly the same; they lose only the pointer cursor and the
`toggle_diff_overlay` handler, so the press falls through to ordinary tab
activation. Both come off one value — `diff_click_cwd` — so they cannot get out
of step.

The performance work. All five of the reporter's hypotheses held up against
v26.7.6, and each fix is measured on a 300-file / 90 000-line / 4.5 MB diff
(release, macOS arm64):

1. The full diff was buffered before parsing — `git_status::git` uses
   `Command::output()`. Now streamed line by line through the new
   `git_status::git_lines` into an incremental `DiffParser`: peak transient
   buffer 4 552 060 bytes → 50 bytes, at ~1.7× the parse CPU (3.97 ms →
   6.76 ms) on the background thread, where it never touches a frame.

2. The snapshot was deep-cloned per holder inside `this.update`, i.e. on the
   UI thread. Now shared behind `Arc`: 2.41 ms → 11 ns per holder.

3. The element tree is not virtualized — confirmed, not cured. Rendering is not
   being redesigned here; instead the element count is bounded (see 4) and
   `MAX_RENDERED_FILES` caps the cards built at all, with a "… and N more" line
   for the tail.

4. Auto-collapse was per file, and counted only +/− while the rendered body
   also has context lines. Added `AUTO_COLLAPSE_TOTAL_LINES` over *retained*
   lines: sixty forty-line files, none individually large, went from 2400
   side-by-side rows to zero, under a summary saying the diff is too large to
   render efficiently and pointing at expanding individual files or `git diff`.

5. The Changes panel probed independently and kept its own snapshot. Both now
   go through `spawn_shared_diff_probe`, which dedupes by cwd and installs one
   `Arc` into every watcher; opening the overlay while the panel already shows
   that repo now paints from the panel's snapshot instead of re-probing.

Plus a repo-wide retention budget (`MAX_TOTAL_LINES`, `MAX_FILES_WITH_HUNKS`):
90 000 lines / 6.2 MiB of line text → 20 000 / 1.2 MiB. The `+N −N` totals
deliberately escape every cap — they are compared against `--numstat` to detect
staleness, so a capped total would disagree forever and re-probe in a loop.

Small diffs are untouched: a forty-file, twelve-lines-each tree is not
oversized and still opens expanded, asserted directly.

Not verified: anything requiring the GUI. No frame timings, no visual check of
the oversized banner or the settings row, and `AUTO_COLLAPSE_TOTAL_LINES` is a
judgement call anchored on row count rather than a measured frame budget.

Refs #239.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 16:10:46 +08:00

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Features

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Input

  • Ghost suggestions — your history completes the whole line as you type; to accept
  • Explained tab completion — every flag and subcommand with its description, for ~100 common commands; when tty7 has nothing to offer the Tab falls through to your shell's own completion, and the whole feature can be turned off (Settings → Terminal → Keyboard, or tab_completion in config.json)
  • Syntax highlighting — as you type, nothing to install
  • Fuzzy history search⌃ R shows what you ran, where, and whether it failed; turn it off (Settings → Terminal → Keyboard, or history_search in config.json) and ⌃ R goes to your shell instead, so an fzf / percol binding keeps working
  • History from day one — your existing shell history works as-is and carries across sessions
  • Line editing — click to place the caret, mouse selection, word motion, undo
  • Multi-line editing — wrapped and multi-line commands edit in place; the grid shifts to keep the caret visible. ⇧ ⏎ · ⌥ ⏎ insert a newline instead of submitting (rebindable as InsertNewline); a plain submits the whole buffer

In the window

  • Tabs & splits — always open in the current directory
  • Repo-grouped sidebar — the left tab sidebar groups rows under a header per git repository, non-repo tabs in a trailing Scratch section; branch switches and in-repo cds never move a row (sidebar_grouping in config.json: repo default, none for a flat list)
  • Command palette ⌘ P · scrollback search ⌘ F
  • ⌘/Ctrl-click links (⌘ on macOS, Ctrl on Windows/Linux) · desktop notifications · copy on select (opt-in, Settings → Terminal → Clipboard)
  • Smart double-click selection — double-click grabs the whole URL, file path, bracket/quote pair, or dictionary-segmented CJK word under the cursor; Shift-click extends a selection (toggle in Settings → Terminal → Mouse; word separators via word_separators in config.json)
  • Nine themes, plus your own — YAML seed themes with solid, gradient, or image backgrounds; iTerm2 .itermcolors import; in-app color editor with a background-image picker
  • Sync with system — Settings → Appearance; pick separate light and dark themes and tty7 follows the OS appearance live (theme_follow_system, theme_preset_light / theme_preset_dark in config.json)
  • Window opacity & blur — Settings → Appearance → Window; applies to every theme, Follow theme returns to the theme's own opacity / blur
  • CJK / IME input

Fonts

  • Hack is bundled — it ships inside the binary, so the default renders identically everywhere without relying on a system install
  • Primary + ordered fallbacksfont_family and font_fallbacks in config.json; optional font_family_bold / font_family_italic for distinct faces, and font_features to pass OpenType features through (contextual ligatures stay off unless you ask for them)
  • Platform-aware defaults — the fallback list names faces the host OS actually ships (PingFang SC / Apple Color Emoji on macOS, Microsoft YaHei / Segoe UI Emoji on Windows, Noto on Linux). Those stock names are appended to a hand-written list too, so a config.json written on another platform still resolves

CJK and the two-column grid

A cell is one advance of the primary face, and a wide (CJK) character is pinned to exactly two of them. A CJK fallback therefore sits flush in its slot only if its ideographs advance twice the primary's Latin advance.

Bundled Hack advances 0.60205em, so a two-column slot is 1.2041em — while every stock CJK face (Microsoft YaHei, PingFang SC, Noto Sans CJK) advances 1.0em. Those glyphs get left-aligned in the slot and the leftover ~0.2em lands as a gap on the right of every character.

Maple Mono NF CN is tried first on every platform for exactly this reason — 0.6em Latin, 1.2em CJK, an exact two-cell fit against Hack. It is referenced by name only, never bundled (~20MB per weight): install it and tty7 picks it up with no config change.

For CJK set tight rather than merely even, change the primary face instead — one that advances 0.5em (Sarasa Mono SC, say) makes two columns exactly 1.0em.

Coding agents

tty7 recognizes third-party coding agents running in a pane (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Aider, Amp, OpenCode, and ~10 more) and adds around them — it never wraps or replaces the agent.

  • Brand avatars — the tab chip / sidebar row shows which agent runs where; custom wrappers map in via agent_commands in config.json
  • Status dot — working (blue) / needs your input (amber) / done (green), driven by agent-reported events over an OSC channel; Settings → Agents installs the hooks that feed it (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Grok Build)
  • Notifications — "needs your permission…" the moment an agent blocks on you, and "finished after Ns" per turn, honoring your notification policy
  • Branch at a glance — each sidebar row shows its pane's git branch and working-tree diff (+N M), refreshed on cd and when a command finishes; clicking the counts opens the diff overlay, and turning that off (Settings → Window & Tabs, or sidebar_diff_preview: false in config.json) keeps the readout while making it non-clickable
  • Session resume — panes lost to a reboot re-launch their agent conversation on restore, carrying the original launch flags (claude --dangerously-skip-permissions --resume …) (restore_agent_sessions, on by default)
  • Fork session — branch a live agent conversation into a second, independent one by shelling the agent's own fork command (codex fork <id>, claude --resume <id> --fork-session, also OpenCode and Grok Build); the original is untouched and both continue separately. Right-click a pane to pick a split placement, or right-click the tab / sidebar row to open the fork in a new tab. Needs the agent's hooks installed, since the fork targets the session id they report; a remote pane can't fork, because the command would run against the local agent — and note a fork copies the whole transcript, so repeated forking costs real disk in the agent's own session store
  • Copy Session ID — put the agent's native session id on the clipboard, beside Copy Working Directory, for pasting into codex resume, a bug report, or another tool
  • Context feed — palette commands send the current selection or the repo's git diff to the running agent as a ready-made prompt
  • Tray icon — a system tray / menu bar item that flips to an attention state the moment any agent needs your input; its menu lists every agent pane (brand avatar + status dot, click to reveal), switches the notification policy, and offers Quit and Stop Daemon alongside the plain session-keeping quit (show_tray_icon, on by default)

SSH

A native Rust SSH stack (russh) is the only path — profiles, credentials, and SFTP without shelling out to ssh. There is no system-ssh compat mode.

  • QuickConnect — type user@host[:port] in the palette and connect; IPv6 [::1]:port supported
  • Saved profiles — full connection config with passwords / passphrases in the OS keychain, never on disk
  • ~/.ssh/config aliases — type one to connect (resolved natively — common fields, best-effort — over russh), or import them as profiles in Settings
  • GUI auth — in-pane sheets for password, key passphrase, 2FA, and host-key confirmation (new vs. changed)
  • Built-in SFTP — a slide-in file panel: browse, upload / download, rename / delete / chmod, drag to Finder
  • Port forwarding — Local / Remote / Dynamic, preconfigured or added live, plus ⌘/Ctrl-click localhost:PORT to auto-forward
  • Jump hosts & proxies — multi-hop via profile references or ProxyJump, ProxyCommand, SOCKS5 / HTTP
Entry point Connects via
Saved profiles · QuickConnect · typed user@host[:port] Native russh — SFTP · keychain · GUI auth · L/R/D forwards
~/.ssh/config aliases Resolved natively, then russh (Match/canonicalize/GSSAPI unsupported — no fallback)

Keybindings

Keys are shown in macOS notation — on Windows and Linux, read as Ctrl. The essentials:

⌘ T · ⌘ W · ⌘ ⇧ T new tab · close tab · reopen closed tab
⌘ 1⌘ 9 · ⌃ ⇥ · ⌃ ⇧ ⇥ jump to tab 19 · next tab · previous tab
⌘ D · ⌘ ⇧ D split right · split down
⌘ ] · ⌘ [ next pane · previous pane
⌘ ⌥ ←→↑↓ focus the pane in that direction
⌘ ⏎ · ⌘ ⇧ ⏎ toggle fullscreen · maximize / restore the pane
⌘ K clear the screen and scrollback
⌘ P command palette
⌘ F search the scrollback
⌃ R fuzzy-search shell history
⌘ + · · ⌘ 0 font size up · down · reset

Settings → Keybindings (⌘ ,) lists every shortcut. Click one, press the new keys (Esc cancels, Backspace resets to default), and it takes effect immediately. Pane resize and swap have no default keys — bind them here or run them from the command palette.

tmux preset — remaps pane/tab actions onto a prefix (default ⌃ B): ⌃ B C opens a tab, ⌃ B % splits, ⌃ B then an arrow moves focus. A bare prefix reaches the shell after a brief pause; prefix + an unbound key passes straight through.

Performance notes

  • The PTY is read at device speed and parsed in large batches, off the render path
  • Hot paths are lock-free — a big cat never waits on drawing
  • The daemon buffers up to 16 MiB ahead of the window before backpressure applies