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l0ng-ai 97c1cb9b44 feat(cli): re-home an orphaned pane with tab new --pane (#716)
A pane can come out from under its tab with its shell still running — an
interrupted `tty7 run`, a `ws rm` that could not hang everything up, or a client
that closed nineteen tabs whose shells were all alive (#716). `pane ls --all`
has been able to *show* those for a while, but everything the CLI offered to do
about one was to kill it: `pane close %<id>`, or `pane close --orphans` for the
lot. The shells were fine. There was simply no verb that put one back on screen,
so recovering meant recreating tabs by hand and reaping the originals.

`tab new` grows a `--pane` that builds the tab around a pane that is already
running instead of spawning a shell for it. Nothing new had to be invented on
the wire: `ControlRequest::TabCreate` has always taken a `PaneSeed` with a pane
id in it, which is how `run --keep` files its pane into a tab.

The part that needed designing is where the seed comes from. `tab_close`
retains the orphaned panes out of `m.panes` at the same moment it drops the
tab, so by the time anyone wants a pane back the tree has already forgotten its
record — cwd, title, shell. Reading the seed off the tree would therefore work
for an interrupted `run` and fail for exactly the case this verb exists for. It
is rebuilt from the live pane registry instead, which still has the pane
because the pane is still running, and which is the same list `pane ls --all`
walks. That does mean `ssh_spec`, `agent` and `shell` are not recovered — the
registry never carried them. They cost nothing while the shell lives, since the
tab is a view onto a pty that is already there, and only matter if the pane
later dies and something tries to restore it from the seed. Reconstructing them
from a running pty is a different problem; a tab you can see beats a shell
nobody can reach.

Two refusals rather than one guess: a pane the server is not running cannot be
re-homed, and neither can one a tab already holds — that is what `pane split`
is for, and accepting it would put a single pane in two places in the tree. With
no workspace named the pane goes back to the one it was spawned for, which is
the `owner` that `pane ls --all` already prints; `$TTY7_WS` cannot help here,
because a shell recovering from this is by definition not inside tty7.

The `pane ls --all` footer now names the way back as well as the two ways to
kill, since the listing is where an orphan is found and so is where the recovery
has to be written down.

Deliberately not done here: the switcher's orphan rows still carry only a Close
button. Adopting from the GUI is not the same one-line change — the row lists
orphans machine-wide while a window speaks for one workspace, and a pane may
only be attached by the workspace that owns it, so the button has to decide
where the tab goes before it can build one. That is its own piece of work.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UUyWQXzcBAoBzaSX8pc7nU
2026-09-09 18:10:09 +08:00
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