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Two independent changes, one commit each.

fix(compose) — a post you wrote is a post you can recall

The F1 composer's ⌃S called the session's send directly and skipped OnCommandEntered, which holds the one seam in the client that adds a history entry. A composed post was therefore echoed and alias-expanded — both free from SendUserInputAsync — and never recorded, so ⌥↑ and ⌃R could not reach it. SendComposed's own doc had claimed all three for as long as the composer existed.

It is not consistency-by-design. The rule elsewhere is history records what was entered on a command line, not what was sent: /web is in it and a macro is not, and the auto-login's exclusion is deliberate and pinned. A composed post is a command the user just wrote, and it was the only user-authored command in this client with no recall route at all.

It keeps going direct rather than being routed through OnCommandEntered, which is the command line's seam: that also clears the window's bar draft, moves the unsent marker and owns the /web, /graphics and /triggers branches, none of which belong to a post written elsewhere. It records the entry itself instead — the built line rather than the buffer, since history holds sendable commands and a recalled entry lands on a one-command bar — and through InputHistory.Add, so a post carrying a connect line meets the same secret gate.

Paste into the composer was checked and is fine: it reaches MultilineEditControl through the framework's IPasteTarget path, newlines survive SanitizeInputText, and a multi-line paste survives the %r join.

feat(tabs) — the key that walks a pane's tabs can now be found

⌃N has cycled the focused pane's tab strip for as long as panes have held more than one window. It was named on F4 and nowhere else — no ⌃P entry, no status-row hint, nothing on the strip itself.

The chord stays ⌃N, and the familiar alternatives were measured rather than assumed — driven at a raw-mode reader with kitten @ send-key:

chord bytes verdict
⌃Tab 09 byte-identical to a bare Tab (already in MacroKeys.ControlBytes)
⌃⇧Tab 1b 5b 5a CSI Z, byte-identical to plain ⇧Tab
⌥Tab 1b 09 ESC + a control byte → two key events, not an Alt chord
⌃PgUp/⌃PgDn CSI 5;5~ / CSI 6;5~ arrives and decodes; free — held in reserve

⌥Tab would additionally need a TryAltEnter-style reassembly on a key already spent as TerminalFocusWatcher's disguised focus-in, and send-key writes into the pty, so it says nothing about the compositor — which takes ⌥Tab unconditionally on Windows, GNOME and KDE. The reported problem was that ⌃N could not be found, not that it was wrong, so no chord was spent.

What changed:

  • A ⌃P entry, layout:next-tab / Focus the next tab / ⌃N, listed unconditionally like the directional pane entries beside it — this surface is where a reader learns a pane holds tabs at all.
  • A status-row segment, ⌃N tab, shown exactly while the focused pane has a second tab, following the same contextual rule as the pane and second-bar hints.
  • NextWindow refuses out loud. It returned in silence on a single-tab pane, which is indistinguishable from a dead key; listing a key on a surface obliges it to answer, which every directional entry beside it already does. Wording sits beside PrefixPanel.NoCycleRefusal.
  • One vocabulary. F4 and --help said window while everything else said tab; ⌥N already owns the window noun, and two keys described in the same noun read as two spellings of one action.
  • FocusHints is generated from a segment list instead of eight hand-written ladders (three independent conditions), with reading order and drop order kept separate — the row reads pane · size · line while size is the first thing surrendered, so dropping from the end of the reading order would have silently reordered it. Verified: the split and focus frames are unchanged cell for cell; the default frame gains ⌃N tab and is still exactly 120 cells.

Verification

dotnet build -c Release SharpMUTerm.slnx warning-free; all five suites green (Core 938, Tui 1786, Graphics 83, Scripting 42, Web 37 — 2,886). Frames rendered and read: default, split, focus, tint-tabs.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added pane-output text selection with mouse dragging and Ctrl+C copying.
    • Added Ctrl+N support for cycling through tabs in the focused pane, including wraparound navigation.
    • Added shortcut visibility in the command palette, help text, and status hints.
    • Improved contextual focus hints for limited screen space.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added clear feedback when tab cycling is unavailable.
    • Sent composed posts can now be recalled from command history.
  • Documentation

    • Updated tab-navigation and pane-selection guidance.

HarryCordewener and others added 2 commits August 13, 2026 22:08
⌃S reached the session directly and skipped OnCommandEntered, which holds
the one seam that adds a history entry — so a composed post was echoed and
alias-expanded (both free from SendUserInputAsync) and never recorded.
SendComposed's own doc had claimed all three for as long as the composer
existed.

It keeps going direct: OnCommandEntered is the command *line's* seam and
clears that window's bar draft, moves the unsent marker and owns the /web,
/graphics and /triggers branches. It records the entry itself instead — the
built line rather than the buffer, since history holds sendable commands,
and through InputHistory.Add so a post carrying a connect line meets the
same secret gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015nuKnWthnELNkrd86q5KWN
⌃N has cycled the focused pane's tab strip for as long as panes have held
more than one window, and it was named on F4 and nowhere else. It is now a
⌃P entry (layout:next-tab) and a status-row segment (⌃N tab, shown while
the focused pane has a second tab).

The chord stays ⌃N because the familiar spellings do not arrive, measured
at a raw reader rather than assumed: ⌃Tab is 09, byte-identical to Tab;
⌃⇧Tab is CSI Z, byte-identical to ⇧Tab; ⌥Tab is ESC + a control byte and so
arrives as two key events, on a chord the compositor takes anyway.

Listing a key obliges it to answer. NextWindow returned in silence on a
single-tab pane — indistinguishable from a dead key — and now refuses out
loud, beside the pane cycle's own wording. Every surface says tab rather
than window; F4 and --help said window while the rest said tab, and ⌥N
already owns the window noun.

FocusHints is generated from a segment list instead of eight hand-written
ladders, with reading order and drop order kept separate so the existing
pane · size · line row is unchanged cell for cell.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015nuKnWthnELNkrd86q5KWN
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The change adds pane output selection and clipboard copying, focused-pane tab cycling through Ctrl+N, ranked focus hints, and composed-command history recording. It also updates command surfaces, help text, design documentation, visual verification, and contrast tests.

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Terminal interaction enhancements

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Pane selection and clipboard copying
src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/SharpMUTermApp.cs, src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/WorkspacePalette.cs, src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/Program.cs, tests/SharpMUTerm.Tui.Tests/PaneSelectionTests.cs, tests/SharpMUTerm.Tui.Tests/FrameContrastTests.cs, tests/SharpMUTerm.Tui.Tests/LegiblePaletteTests.cs, CLAUDE.md
Panes support mouse selection and Ctrl+C copying through an injected clipboard callback. Selection uses theme-aware colors, clears when pane content changes, and works for non-focused and frozen panes.
Focused-pane tab navigation
src/SharpMUTerm.Core/Commands/CommandCatalog.cs, src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/SharpMUTermApp.cs, src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/MacroKeys.cs, src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/Program.cs, tests/SharpMUTerm.Core.Tests/Commands/CommandCatalogTests.cs, tests/SharpMUTerm.Tui.Tests/TabCycleTests.cs, docs/design/README.md, CLAUDE.md
The layout:next-tab command exposes ⌃N for focused-pane tab cycling. Multi-tab cycling wraps. Single-tab cycling displays refusal feedback. Focus hints use ranked candidates and remove lower-priority hints when space is limited.
Composed-command history
src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/SharpMUTermApp.cs, tests/SharpMUTerm.Tui.Tests/ComposeWindowTests.cs
Successfully sent composed commands enter input history before asynchronous delivery. Refused empty posts do not enter history.

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- Around line 10587-10630: Update the FocusHints XML documentation to reflect
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explaining that the tab segment has rank 1 because the visible tab strip makes
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Comment thread src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/SharpMUTermApp.cs
HarryCordewener and others added 4 commits August 13, 2026 23:01
The paragraph stated the reading order as pane · size · line and explained
only size's priority, while the code inserts ⌃N tab between the pane and
size segments at rank 1. CLAUDE.md carried the reasoning; the doc a reader
of the method actually sees did not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015nuKnWthnELNkrd86q5KWN
The terminal's own selection cannot do this job — UrlDetector's argument
one layer over. Under ?1003, which this client needs for the wheel, tab
and rail clicks and pane drag-and-drop, a plain drag belongs to the
application; the emulator's escape hatch selects a terminal *row*, which
on a vertical split crosses the divider into another pane's output, and
since a pane is narrower than the row a logical line wraps and comes back
with newlines injected at the wrap points.

Almost all of it is the framework's, shipped in the pinned 2.5.14 and off
by default: drag, double-click word, triple-click line, drag-autoscroll
and a soft-wrap-aware copy. What had to be ours is the colour, the
clipboard, and what happens when the buffer moves.

- WorkspacePalette.SelectionBand/SelectionInk: one pair per theme, since a
  selection is not an identity or a focus fact. ReadingPlane pushed further
  in the direction of travel, leaned toward Theme.Prompt. Held to a fill
  floor against all fourteen planes and the ink to Contrast.Floor on the
  band — the highlight replaces the world's foreground too, so that ink is
  what all selected output is read in.
- The clipboard writer is caller-supplied and null by default, the
  save:/logRoot:/openUrl: family. It also buys one copy path: the
  framework's ⌃C writes through a static helper no caller can substitute,
  so a test run would have replaced the developer's real clipboard.
- ⌃C is claimed in the main window's key chain, not in AppShortcuts — a
  global shortcut would take it from the composer's editor as well.
- RepaintPane drops any selection: chrome rows go in and out mid-buffer and
  a selection anchored to display rows would highlight text nobody dragged.
- NewPaneControl is now the one place a pane control is made. Enabling
  selection on PaneContentFor alone left the main window unable to select
  anything, because that control is built in the constructor.

SimulatePaneDrag is the test seam (the framework routes mouse only inside
Run()), and the new `selection` view is the frame — in FrameContrastTests'
list, because a colour nothing renders is a colour nobody checks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015nuKnWthnELNkrd86q5KWN
… move

Two defects from review, both real and both confirmed by a test that
failed first.

The copy asked the *focused pane*. Pane selection moves on ⌃arrows, ⌃O and
a tab click, and a press in a pane's body moves none of them — so a drag in
the pane beside the focused one left ⌃C looking elsewhere and reporting
"nothing selected", which reads as a feature that does not work. It asks
the window's SelectionManager now, which owns the one active selection and
clears the previous owner when a new one starts. That also retires the
special case for a frozen pane: one selection, one owner.

The clear was at RepaintPane, which is not the only thing that re-feeds a
pane — BuildFrozenContent feeds both halves and ToggleFreeze's thaw branch
pours the whole buffer back. It moves to FeedRange, the one function that
actually replaces a control's content. MarkupControl.SetContent does not
clear a selection; only its append path does, so this cannot be left to the
framework. The thaw is the case with teeth: freezing leaves the live
control empty so a stale anchor yields nothing, while after a thaw the rows
exist again and the new test copied "The Grand Plaza…" before the fix.

PaneWindows() is added because the first cut of the non-focused-pane test
passed a *pane* id to a seam that takes a *window* id and selected nothing
— indistinguishable from the bug it was written to catch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015nuKnWthnELNkrd86q5KWN
Select a pane's output with the mouse and copy it
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