From 0e6698f7868362153dc6656ee3816a79a0792696 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Haller <stefan@haller-berlin.de>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:34:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Don't break line after footnote symbol in auto-wrapped
 TextArea

This is useful for including footnotes with long URLs (e.g. [1]) in commit
messages in lazygit.

[1]: https://www.example.com/this-is-a-really-long-url-that-lazy-git-automatically-wraps-and-is-an-issue
---
 text_area.go      | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 text_area_test.go | 21 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/text_area.go b/text_area.go
index 7291b870..1194b272 100644
--- a/text_area.go
+++ b/text_area.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package gocui
 
 import (
+	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/mattn/go-runewidth"
@@ -33,14 +34,16 @@ func AutoWrapContent(content []rune, autoWrapWidth int) ([]rune, []CursorMapping
 	wrappedContent := make([]rune, 0, len(content)+estimatedNumberOfSoftLineBreaks)
 	startOfLine := 0
 	indexOfLastWhitespace := -1
+	var footNoteMatcher footNoteMatcher
 
 	for currentPos, r := range content {
 		if r == '\n' {
 			wrappedContent = append(wrappedContent, content[startOfLine:currentPos+1]...)
 			startOfLine = currentPos + 1
 			indexOfLastWhitespace = -1
+			footNoteMatcher.reset()
 		} else {
-			if r == ' ' {
+			if r == ' ' && !footNoteMatcher.isFootNote() {
 				indexOfLastWhitespace = currentPos + 1
 			} else if currentPos-startOfLine >= autoWrapWidth && indexOfLastWhitespace >= 0 {
 				wrapAt := indexOfLastWhitespace
@@ -49,7 +52,9 @@ func AutoWrapContent(content []rune, autoWrapWidth int) ([]rune, []CursorMapping
 				cursorMapping = append(cursorMapping, CursorMapping{wrapAt, len(wrappedContent)})
 				startOfLine = wrapAt
 				indexOfLastWhitespace = -1
+				footNoteMatcher.reset()
 			}
+			footNoteMatcher.addRune(r)
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -58,6 +63,50 @@ func AutoWrapContent(content []rune, autoWrapWidth int) ([]rune, []CursorMapping
 	return wrappedContent, cursorMapping
 }
 
+var footNoteRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^\[\d+\]:\s*$`)
+
+type footNoteMatcher struct {
+	lineStr        strings.Builder
+	didFailToMatch bool
+}
+
+func (self *footNoteMatcher) addRune(r rune) {
+	if self.didFailToMatch {
+		// don't bother tracking the rune if we know it can't possibly match any more
+		return
+	}
+
+	if self.lineStr.Len() == 0 && r != '[' {
+		// fail early if the first rune of a line isn't a '['; this is mainly to avoid a (possibly
+		// expensive) regex match
+		self.didFailToMatch = true
+		return
+	}
+
+	self.lineStr.WriteRune(r)
+}
+
+func (self *footNoteMatcher) isFootNote() bool {
+	if self.didFailToMatch {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	if footNoteRe.MatchString(self.lineStr.String()) {
+		// it's a footnote, so treat spaces as non-breaking. It's important not to reset the matcher
+		// here, because there could be multiple spaces after a footnote.
+		return true
+	}
+
+	// no need to check again for this line
+	self.didFailToMatch = true
+	return false
+}
+
+func (self *footNoteMatcher) reset() {
+	self.lineStr.Reset()
+	self.didFailToMatch = false
+}
+
 func (self *TextArea) autoWrapContent() {
 	if self.AutoWrap {
 		self.wrappedContent, self.cursorMapping = AutoWrapContent(self.content, self.AutoWrapWidth)
diff --git a/text_area_test.go b/text_area_test.go
index 8403c64e..289dffef 100644
--- a/text_area_test.go
+++ b/text_area_test.go
@@ -777,6 +777,27 @@ func Test_AutoWrapContent(t *testing.T) {
 			expectedWrappedContent: "abc \ndefghijklmn \nopq",
 			expectedCursorMapping:  []CursorMapping{{4, 5}, {16, 18}},
 		},
+		{
+			name:                   "don't break at space after footnote symbol",
+			content:                "abc\n[1]: https://long/link\ndef",
+			autoWrapWidth:          7,
+			expectedWrappedContent: "abc\n[1]: https://long/link\ndef",
+			expectedCursorMapping:  []CursorMapping{},
+		},
+		{
+			name:                   "don't break at space after footnote symbol at soft line start",
+			content:                "abc def [1]: https://long/link\nghi",
+			autoWrapWidth:          7,
+			expectedWrappedContent: "abc def \n[1]: https://long/link\nghi",
+			expectedCursorMapping:  []CursorMapping{{8, 9}},
+		},
+		{
+			name:                   "do break at subsequent space after footnote symbol",
+			content:                "abc\n[1]: normal text follows\ndef",
+			autoWrapWidth:          7,
+			expectedWrappedContent: "abc\n[1]: normal \ntext \nfollows\ndef",
+			expectedCursorMapping:  []CursorMapping{{16, 17}, {21, 23}},
+		},
 		{
 			name:                   "hard line breaks",
 			content:                "abc\ndef\n",