l0ng-ai 1e51db614e fix(ui): read a path's ~ off the machine the path is on (#580)
`abbreviate_home` measured every path against this process's own `$HOME`,
whoever the path belonged to. A remote pane sitting in `/home/deploy/app`
therefore read as `~/app` on a laptop that happens to log in as `deploy`,
and stayed spelled out on one that does not — the `~` naming the wrong
machine either way. #568 took the same borrow out of the file-link
resolver; this is the display half of it.

The home is now the caller's to name, because only the caller knows which
machine the path is on, and nothing here has to be asked for: a host
reports its home in the control handshake (`ControlHelloOk::home`) and
`HostLinks` already keeps it per host, so `path_display::home_for_host`
is a map lookup and never a round trip. `TerminalView::display_home` puts
a pane's own answer behind one call, and `Tab::leaf_title_and_home` reads
a title and its home off one leaf so the two cannot disagree.

Everything that draws a shortened path is on it: the Info panel's cwd, the
tab strip's label and tooltip, the sidebar's title and cwd lines, and the
switcher's workspace and tab rows. A path on a machine with no link — or
one a pane's shell has ssh'd away to, which no host here can answer for —
is shown in full rather than measured against a home that is not its own,
the same answer #568 settled on. A WSL pane gets its distro's home instead
of `C:\Users\…` for free, since it is a host like any other.

Tests: the borrow itself (a path with no home is left alone, and this
machine's home is not offered as a stand-in) at all three seams —
`abbreviate_home`, `short_title`, `display_path`. `ui::home`'s test no
longer has to set `HOME` on a process everything else is reading.
2026-08-13 12:01:18 +08:00
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tty7

tty7

A terminal workbench: persistent sessions, remote work, agents.

Pure Rust · GPU rendering on Zed's gpui · VT core from Alacritty


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tty7 with a tab sidebar of agent sessions across several repos, running Claude Code

Why

  • Performance — ~2× the throughput of Alacritty, Ghostty, or Kitty (benchmarks)
  • Persistent sessions — quit or reboot; your shells and supported agent sessions keep running, no tmux
  • Editor-grade input — suggestions, completion, highlighting, history search
  • Remote development — files, repos, panes, and git data stay on the remote machine
  • Native SSH — profiles, SFTP, port forwarding, and jump hosts
  • Agent-aware — Claude Code, Codex & co.: status, notifications, git context
  • CLI + Skills — agents create panes, run commands, and inspect output

Install

Native builds for each platform on Releases:

macOS …-macos-arm64.dmg · …-x86_64.dmg drag into Applications
Windows …-setup.exe · portable ….zip
Linux …-x86_64.AppImage chmod +x and run — X11/Wayland libraries bundled

What's inside

Editor-grade input ghost suggestions from history · explained tab completion · syntax highlighting · multi-line editing · click places the caret · ⌃ R fuzzy history
Window tabs & splits · ⌘ P palette · ⌘ F scrollback search · nine themes · IME
Agent-aware per-pane detection (18 CLIs): status dot · notifications · branch + diff · resume after reboot · tray icon when input is needed
Remote workspaces remote files, repos, changes, diffs, worktrees, tabs, and panes · reconnect from any client and continue where you left off
CLI + Skills bundled tty7 CLI · agent skill · pane/workspace control · real PTY commands · output, process, port, and agent status
SSH native russh stack: profiles with keychain secrets · SFTP panel · port forwarding · jump hosts · one-time, unprivileged tty7-server install

Full documentation lives in docs/keyboard shortcuts · config.json · CLI reference. The agent-facing CLI interface is also documented in skills/tty7/SKILL.md.

Install the skill with:

npx skills add l0ng-ai/tty7    # install
npx skills update tty7         # update later

Benchmarks

Same machine, same day, same 155×40 grid — Apple M1 Pro, macOS 26.3.1, five-run averages (2026-07-04):

tty7 Alacritty Ghostty Kitty
Plaintext I/O — 11 MB cat (lower = better) 95 ms 239 ms 179 ms 185 ms
DOOM-fire frame rate (higher = better) 888 fps 485 fps 552 fps 617 fps
Cold-launch memory 116 MB¹ 105 MB 128 MB 130 MB

¹ GUI 105 MB + the persistent server 11 MB.

Methodology and one-command reproduction: scripts/bench/.


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A terminal workbench in pure Rust: shells, persistent sessions, SSH, coding agents. GPU-rendered on Zed's gpui, VT core from Alacritty.
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