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TerminalTextEditingLayout.commandMovesByWord makes Command move and delete by word like Option, and claims bare Control+Left/Right for line start and end. No other Control chord is claimed in any layout, so Ctrl+W and Ctrl+C still reach the shell. terminalTextEditingIsGestureCandidate is the union of both layouts, so the key path can reject ordinary keystrokes before reading any setting. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ull-screen apps The new setting selects the browser-style gesture layout. It is wired through cmux.json, the Settings Terminal pane, and settings search, with strings in all nine macOS locales. Gestures now pass through while the focused terminal is on the alternate screen, so vim, less, and tmux receive the original chords. The alternate-screen read runs only after a gesture has resolved with the mode on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A binding scoped with "!terminalAlternateScreen" fires at the shell prompt and falls through to a full-screen app, e.g. closeTab on ctrl+w. The value serializes the terminal viewport, so it is computed only for clauses that name it and only for a keystroke that could trigger that action, once per event. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… probe terminal.textEditingGesturesInFullScreenApps (off by default) keeps gestures active on the alternate screen. tmux, screen and zellij keep the outer terminal there even at their shell prompt, so multiplexer users need a way back to the pre-gate behavior. Auto-repeats of a gesture reuse the alternate-screen answer from the press that started them instead of serializing the viewport per repeat. The when-clause probe now resolves the terminal through cmuxTerminalFocusOwningGhosttyView, so a TextBox over vim reads as the alternate screen, and only inspects key-down events. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The alternate-screen answer reused by auto-repeats now records its key code, is cleared on every fresh key press before any early return, and is cleared when the view gains or loses first responder. A repeat that lands after a focus switch or whose press never reached the gesture check re-reads the screen instead of trusting a stale answer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds two terminal text-editing settings, selectable gesture layouts, and alternate-screen-aware gesture routing. It also adds ChangesTerminal Navigation and Shortcut Context
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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KeyEvent->>GhosttyTerminalView: Send key press
GhosttyTerminalView->>TerminalTextEditingResolver: Check candidate and resolve configured layout
GhosttyTerminalView->>TerminalSurface: Read alternate-screen state
TerminalSurface-->>GhosttyTerminalView: Return screen state
GhosttyTerminalView-->>KeyEvent: Translate gesture or pass key through
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…d decode The terminalAlternateScreen when-clause probe treated every arrow or Tab keystroke with matching modifiers as a possible trigger, so with the Ctrl+W recipe every Control+arrow serialized the viewport. The stroke matcher already matches arrow and Tab strokes by physical key code, so only numbered-digit actions keep the modifier-only fallback. isAlternateScreenActive() now scans the render-grid export for the active_screen field instead of decoding the whole grid with JSONDecoder, falling back to the decode for any other layout. The full-screen subtitle and schema text now say full-screen apps get keys as if gestures were off, since Ghostty's own natural-text-editing bindings (Command+Left to Ctrl+A, Option+Left to Esc b) still apply there. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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One hypothesis the review formed and disproved: that Fixing1, 2 and 3. For 3 the fix is to make the pre-filter over-approximate as its contract requires, rather than tightening the dispatch matchers, and to say so in its doc comment. Leaving4 gets a comment rather than a behavior change: with focus in the file explorer, Ctrl+W closing a surface is the behavior you want, so false is right there. 5 gets the SKILL.md warning. 6 needs no action. Posting this per the review policy in CLAUDE.md, before any merge. |
`shortcutEventMayTriggerAction` decides whether an action's when-clause context key needs answering for this event. A `false` answer writes `false` into the clause context rather than omitting the key, so any action whose clause negates that key goes silently permissive wherever the pre-filter is narrower than the dispatch matchers. Two cases were: - Non-keyDown events returned `false` outright, even though the dispatcher runs on them. - `matchesTab` matches key code 48 whatever the stroke's key says, so a Tab event can reach a matcher that the stroke comparison rejects. Both now return `true`, and the doc comment states the contract instead of contradicting it. Also opens the test seam for the clause context by letting DEBUG route `shortcutResolvedEventWindow`, keeping its windowNumber-first ordering, and corrects `isAlternateScreenActive()`'s doc comment: keystroke callers are the expected callers, they must memoize, and reading the marker skips the Swift decode but not the JSON serialization. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Conflicts and how they were resolved: - CHANGELOG.md: main now builds release notes from each PR's `## Changelog` section and forbids feature PRs from editing this file, so the branch's two entries are dropped and the browser-navigation line moves to the PR body. - TerminalSection.swift, Localizable.xcstrings: main replaced the Text Editing Gestures row's on/off subtitles with one static string telling people to turn the whole feature off for full-screen apps. This branch adds a dedicated Text Editing Gestures in Full-Screen Apps toggle, so that advice is now wrong; the on/off pair stays and main's unused `.subtitle` key is dropped. The catalog keeps every key main added or changed. - SettingsSearchIndex.swift: both sides added rows; kept both. - CmuxConfigSchema.generated.swift: regenerated from the merged web/data/cmux.schema.json. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 567539: Add translations for the eight added entries in the localizations
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Merged PR manaflow-ai#14883 gave 55 toggle rows and 10 picker rows one fixed subtitle each, following the Apple HIG rule "describe what it does when turned on, and people can infer the opposite". Its own table lists Text Editing Gestures with the reason: "The off text restates the on text as a negative. The subtitle changes on every click." The catch-up merge here restored that row's on/off pair, and the branch's two new rows were written in the same pattern. Text Editing Gestures and Text Editing Gestures in Full-Screen Apps now show one subtitle, the on-state sentence. The keys are renamed subtitleOn -> subtitle with their nine translations carried over unchanged, and the subtitleOff keys are dropped, so no string needs retranslating. Main's own settings.terminal.textEditingGestures.subtitle text is not restored, because it tells people to turn the whole feature off for full-screen apps and this branch adds a dedicated toggle for that. Command Moves by Word keeps its pair for now. Its two states describe two different key layouts rather than a feature being on or off, so a single "when on" sentence cannot state it; that row is really a choice between two options and is raised separately as a design call. localization parity: 0 errors. verify-local.py: 6/6. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review addendum: the catch-up merge walked back a merged Settings decisionI said in the catch-up notes above that the on/off subtitle pair stays on the Text Editing Gestures row and asked whether you would rather keep main's wording. That framing was too soft, and it was also incomplete. Going back to the source: #14883 ("Show one fixed subtitle for each Settings row", merged 2026-09-27, part of #12958) gave 55 toggle rows and 10 picker rows one fixed subtitle each, under the HIG rule describe what it does when turned on, and people can infer the opposite. Its toggle-row table names this exact row, with the reason "The off text restates the on text as a negative. The subtitle changes on every click." The off string this branch brought back, "Command and Option key combinations reach the terminal unchanged.", is the one that table removed, verbatim. So this was not a wording preference, it was a merged convention, and the branch also wrote its two new rows in the pattern that convention had just retired. Three rows, not one. Fixed in
Left, and it is a design call rather than a cleanup: Command Moves by Word keeps its pair. Its two states are two different key layouts, not a feature on or off. On, Command moves by word and Control goes to line start and end; off, Command moves by line as in a macOS text field. A single "when on" sentence cannot say that, and the thing being chosen has two named alternatives, which is the shape #14883 handles with a picker and a "Choose ..." subtitle. My recommendation is to convert that row to a picker in a follow-up rather than either keeping a state-dependent subtitle or flattening it to one sentence that hides half the behavior. Raising it on #13742 rather than deciding it here, since #12958 owns the convention. Worth noting for whoever picks that up: main still has on/off pairs on five rows, including Confirm Unsafe Paste, so #14883's pass was not exhaustive and "no row may do this" is not the current state of the tree. That is part of why the question is worth asking rather than assuming. |
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…, keep main's catalog order - SKILL.md and the terminalAlternateScreen doc: closeTab's example clause is terminalFocus && !terminalAlternateScreen, since the key reads false when a browser or sidebar owns focus. - shortcutResolvedEventWindow no longer carries a DEBUG test override; no test used it. - Localizable.xcstrings rebuilt from main's file with this branch's keys merged per key, so the diff is only the new and changed entries. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Appending at the end of the catalog collides with every main commit that appends a key, so GitHub's line merge keeps reporting a conflict. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ecba57a fix(sidebar): cut with an ellipsis character so a reference cannot re-parse (manaflow-ai#15893) 6d2b5d1 feat(terminal): browser-style navigation layout and a terminalAlternateScreen shortcut key (manaflow-ai#14863) 0d3fdb1 test: print the simulator pipe output when the EOF assertion fails (manaflow-ai#15857) 46fe41a Fix cloud dogfood pause link-down journey (manaflow-ai#15918) 7d246ed fix: open existing Cloud workspace rows optimistically (manaflow-ai#15747) 1b06f84 fix(agent-chat): show ACP paths and diffs for tool calls (manaflow-ai#15908) b413b7a fix(agent-chat): preserve earlier ACP plans during updates (manaflow-ai#15907) 8b75678 Persist Cloud display membership across clients (manaflow-ai#15748) 547340a fix(cloud): carry the machine author from /api/vm to the machine row's snapshot (manaflow-ai#15309) e30de3d test: probe cloud agent status in Cloud VM journey (manaflow-ai#15875) 296537c docs(agent-chat): correct provider claims and pin ACP argv (manaflow-ai#15901) e1dc959 Count the renamed Agent spawn tool as a subagent in the pi bridge (manaflow-ai#15865) 14fae18 dogfood: record the hover steps as trees, not frames (manaflow-ai#15845) 4da3bb3 fix(agent-chat): scope ACP plans to their turn and refresh activity (manaflow-ai#15898) 64ec56d feat(terminal): right-click a link to choose where it opens (manaflow-ai#15325) efb762c Make unsupported remote browser warning dismissible (manaflow-ai#15726) 666c77f Cloud Machines sidebar: add persistent create buttons (manaflow-ai#15680) # Conflicts: # .github/workflows/cloud-vm-dogfood.yml
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Problem
Some people drive the terminal like a browser text field: Command+arrows jump words, Control+arrows go to line start and end, and Ctrl+W closes the tab. Today the only way to get that in cmux is a global Karabiner remap, which leaks into every app and into TUIs (Ctrl+W stops deleting words in vim, Command+arrows stop reaching apps that bind them). The opt-in text-editing gestures from #13921 cover the macOS text-field layout only, and they fire inside full-screen apps too.
Resulting behavior
Three terminal settings and one shortcut
whenkey, all off or inert by default.terminal.textEditingCommandMovesByWordtextEditingGestureson: Command arrows and Delete move and delete by word (like Option), and bare Control+Left/Right go to line start and end.terminal.textEditingGesturesInFullScreenAppsterminalAlternateScreen(when-clause key)The Ctrl+W part is configuration, not a new shortcut:
Ctrl+W then closes the surface at the shell prompt and still reaches vim. A
when-scoped action already drops its menu key equivalent, so the keyDown handler is the only dispatcher. The same key covers the passthrough half of #2772.Behavior change for existing gesture users.
textEditingGesturesInFullScreenAppsdefaults to false, so people who already use #13921's gestures lose them inside tmux, screen and zellij: a multiplexer keeps the outer terminal on the alternate screen even at its own shell prompt. The one-line opt-in is"terminal": { "textEditingGesturesInFullScreenApps": true }. The default follows the rule that editor shortcuts must not leak into TUIs. The Settings subtitle, schema text,all-keys.mdand the keyboard-shortcuts skill all say so, and the Changelog section below carries it."Keys as if gestures were off" is not quite "the raw chord": Ghostty's own natural-text-editing defaults still apply on the alternate screen, so Command+Left sends Ctrl+A and Option+Left sends Esc b there. Control+Left/Right have no Ghostty default and reach the app as CSI sequences.
Mechanism
CmuxTerminalCore):TerminalTextEditingLayout.commandMovesByWordroutes Command through the word family and claims only bare Control+Left/Right. No layout claims any Control+letter chord, so Ctrl+W, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+D keep reaching the shell. Shift combinations still pass through.terminalTextEditingIsGestureCandidateis the union of both layouts. An ordinary keystroke is rejected there before anyUserDefaultsread. The alternate-screen probe runs only after a gesture resolves with the mode on and the full-screen setting off. Auto-repeats reuse the answer from the press that started them.TerminalSurface.isAlternateScreenActive()): libghostty exposes the active screen only through the render-grid export, so the probe still serializes the viewport, but it now scans the export for"active_screen":"alternate"instead of decoding the whole grid (row text is JSON-escaped, so it can't forge the key; other layouts fall back to the decode). A cheap export,ghostty_surface_is_alternate_screen, is up as embedded: add ghostty_surface_is_alternate_screen ghostty#236 (draft, not yet compiled: the fork's CI skips its build jobs). This PR does not bump the submodule; a follow-up can switch to the export once it lands on the fork's main.whenkey:ShortcutWhenClause.references(key:)lets the app skip the probe for clauses that never nameterminalAlternateScreen. When a clause does name it, the probe runs only if the event actually matches the action's stroke (arrow and Tab strokes match by physical key code, so an unrelated Control+arrow never probes), and at most once per event. The terminal is resolved throughcmuxTerminalFocusOwningGhosttyView(), so a TextBox over vim counts as the alternate screen. With no terminal focused (a browser panel), the key is false.Validation
app-host unit tests (changed suites), CLI product tests, andswift-package-tests, which ranCmuxTerminalCore,CmuxTerminal,CmuxSettingsandCmuxSettingsUIamong 26 packages (TerminalTextEditingKeyResolution,ShortcutWhenClause,SettingsRowAnchorResolutionand the newTerminalSurfaceAlternateScreenExportTestsall passed). The previous head's run failed once inCmuxSimulator(SimulatorProcessSessionTests"Closing the parent pipe writer delivers output through EOF"), which this PR doesn't touch; it passed on the next run.CmuxRemoteWorkspacerelay socket failures on the fork's CI did not recur here;CmuxRemoteWorkspacepassed (148 tests).scripts/verify-local.pyon the merge commit: Swift syntax, xcstrings, localization parity, embedded config schema and package groups passed. Localization audit: the six new strings and the two changed subtitles carry all nine required locales; theshortcuts.whentext is updated in all 20web/messagesfiles.shortcutWhenClauseContextand the gesture gate (the resolver and clause logic have package tests; the routing is left to dogfood), and localized search aliases for the two new rows (the parenttextEditingGesturesrow has none either).Dogfood
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textEditingGesturesandtextEditingCommandMovesByWordon and thecloseTabrecipe above (turn off the Mission Control Control+Left/Right shortcuts first):echo aaa bbb ccctyped: Command+Left/Right move one word, Control+Left/Right go to line start/end, Command+Delete deletes one word, Option+Delete still deletes one word.vim: arrows move normally; Ctrl+W thenvsplits the vim window and the cmux surface stays open. In atput smcup; cat -valternate screen, Command+Left prints^A(Ghostty's binding, not the gesture's^[b), Control+Left prints^[[1;5D, Ctrl+W prints^W.terminal.textEditingGesturesInFullScreenAppstrue: incat -vinside tmux, Command+Left prints^[band Control+Left prints^A.Changelog
Added: Settings > Terminal > Command Moves by Word (
terminal.textEditingCommandMovesByWord, off by default) gives the text-editing gestures a browser-style layout: Command arrows and Delete move by word and Control+Left/Right go to line start and end. A newterminalAlternateScreenkey forshortcuts.whenletscloseTabbound to Ctrl+W close the surface at the shell prompt and still reach vim.Changed: text-editing gestures now stand down inside full-screen apps such as vim, less and tmux;
terminal.textEditingGesturesInFullScreenAppsturns the old behavior back on.Out of scope
nextSurfacecan already be bound toctrl+tabincmux.json.goto_splitfallback. Awhen-blocked pane-focus binding can still move focus through the fallback that fires when no live binding owns the keystroke. The docs don't suggest that recipe.Refs #13915, #2772
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terminalAlternateScreenas a shortcut condition, allowing shortcuts to behave differently when a terminal’s alternate screen is active.