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Fixes #6773

Problem

The built-in editable file preview rendered standalone source files as plain text, even though rendered Markdown code blocks already had syntax highlighting.

What changed

  • Resolves common standalone filenames and extensions to about 20 language families, including Swift, SQL, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Rust, C/C++/Objective-C, Java/Kotlin/C#, Ruby, PHP, shell, CSS/Sass/Less, JSON/JSONC, YAML, TOML, and INI-style files.
  • Adds a dependency-free native scanner in the leaf CmuxFilePreviewSyntax package. It classifies keywords, types, strings, numbers, comments, calls, and annotations using UTF-16 ranges suitable for TextKit.
  • Applies colors as TextKit 1 temporary attributes, preserving editing, selection, undo, font zoom, and the existing large-document editor stack.
  • Uses a light or dark GitHub-inspired palette selected from the effective editor foreground luminance, so custom and transparent terminal-derived themes follow their apparent background.
  • Fixes edge cases called out during review: Rust lifetimes, Objective-C Foundation/CoreGraphics types, multiline Python strings, multiline JS/TS/Go backticks, case-insensitive SQL, and CSS protocol-relative URLs.

Settings and performance

fileEditor.syntaxHighlighting defaults to on and is wired through:

  • Settings UI
  • command palette
  • settings search and JSON-path navigation
  • ~/.config/cmux/cmux.json parsing and generated template
  • JSON schema and configuration docs

The controller checks NSTextStorage.length before copying source text. Files over 600,000 UTF-16 units render as plain text, scans stop above 12,000 colored tokens, and cancellation or token overflow discards partial colors. Edit-driven refreshes use the shared coalescing deadline timer and lifecycle-owned task store; scanning runs through Swift 6 @concurrent.

Why native instead of the Markdown highlight.js assets

Resources/markdown-viewer/ bundles highlight.js and GitHub CSS for fenced code rendered inside a WKWebView. Standalone file previews are editable native NSTextView documents. Reusing the web assets would require duplicating editor content into a web renderer or replacing native editing behavior. The existing native approach keeps TextKit selection, editing, undo, font magnification, and large-file behavior intact while still using a matching light/dark palette.

Architecture

Pure filename resolution, bounded scanning, and palette values live in Packages/macOS/CmuxFilePreviewSyntax, which has no internal package dependencies and can be tested without launching cmux. AppKit integration stays in FilePreviewSyntaxHighlightController.

Tests

Behavior coverage includes:

  • extension and filename language resolution
  • setting toggle gating
  • oversized and token-dense plain-text degradation
  • light/dark palette selection
  • representative tokenization and UTF-16 range correctness
  • cancellation with no partial colors
  • Settings row/search/JSON parser integration

Validated with:

  • arch -arm64 swift test --package-path Packages/macOS/CmuxFilePreviewSyntax
  • arch -arm64 swift test --package-path Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings
  • arch -arm64 swift test --package-path Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI
  • pbxproj normalization, test-wiring, workspace-package-group, and Package.resolved policy checks

Localization

The Settings title, subtitle, and settings-search alias use String(localized:defaultValue:) and have English and Japanese entries in Resources/Localizable.xcstrings. Configuration schema/docs messages are present in both web/messages/en.json and web/messages/ja.json.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added syntax highlighting to built-in file previews for common programming, scripting, markup, and configuration languages.
    • Highlighting is enabled by default and can be toggled in Settings, the command palette, or configuration files.
    • Added light and dark color palettes with automatic appearance handling.
    • Large, unsupported, cancelled, or overly complex files safely fall back to plain text.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved diagnostic event summaries with clearer transport, connection, cancellation, and recovery details.
  • Documentation

    • Added English and Japanese configuration documentation and localized setting search support.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for language detection, highlighting limits, configuration, cancellation, and color palettes.

The built-in file preview (file explorer double-click → opens in cmux)
rendered source files as plain, uncolored text; highlighting only existed
in the web diff viewer. This adds native syntax highlighting to the
plain-text preview/editor with a light/dark palette that follows the
editor background.

Implementation:
- A dependency-free Swift tokenizer (FilePreviewSyntaxTokenizer) classifies
  keywords, types, strings, numbers, comments, functions, and decorators for
  ~20 language families, driven by per-language grammars. Pure value-in/
  value-out so it runs off the main thread and is unit-testable.
- Color is applied via NSLayoutManager temporary attributes — display only,
  so it never mutates the text storage, undo stack, or font, and preserves
  the perf-critical TextKit 1 stack and font magnification. Tokenizing runs
  off-main and is size-gated (large files stay plain text), keeping the
  large-document performance contract from #4576/#5255.
- The light/dark palette is chosen from the editor foreground luminance,
  which is reliable even when the content background is .clear.

A new fileEditor.syntaxHighlighting setting (default on) mirrors the
existing fileEditor.wordWrap toggle across the Settings window, command
palette, search aliases, cmux.json, JSON schema, and docs.

Fixes #6773

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds dependency-free syntax highlighting for recognized files in built-in previews. The change includes bounded asynchronous scanning, light and dark palettes, persisted configuration, editor integration, settings surfaces, tests, project wiring, configuration documentation, and diagnostic presentation updates.

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Syntax Highlighting Feature

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tokenizer, grammar, and theme engine
Packages/macOS/CmuxFilePreviewSyntax/...
Adds language resolution, grammar-driven tokenization, UTF-16 ranges, cancellation, token limits, palettes, appearance handling, asynchronous APIs, and package tests.
Persisted syntax highlighting setting
Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings/..., Sources/KeyboardShortcutSettingsFileStore*, Sources/Panels/FilePreviewSyntaxHighlightSettings.swift, Sources/CmuxSettingsJSONPathSupport.swift, cmuxTests/*
Adds the fileEditor.syntaxHighlighting setting, defaults, JSON parsing, templates, injected defaults, and persistence tests.
File preview editor integration
Sources/Panels/FilePreview*, Sources/Panels/MarkdownPanelView.swift
Connects file previews to language detection, asynchronous highlighting, appearance resolution, refreshes, cancellation, and stored enablement.
Settings UI, command palette, and search surfaces
Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/..., Sources/SettingsNavigation.swift, Sources/SettingsSearchAliases.swift, Sources/CommandPalette/..., Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, cmuxTests/*
Adds the settings toggle, command palette action, search metadata, localization, and anchor tests.
Package and Xcode project wiring
Packages/macOS/CmuxFilePreviewSyntax/Package.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj, .github/workflows/ci.yml
Registers the package, targets, source files, test files, framework products, and CI package tests.
Web schema and configuration documentation
web/data/cmux.schema.json, web/messages/*.json, web/app/.../configuration/page.tsx
Documents and demonstrates the fileEditor.syntaxHighlighting configuration in English and Japanese.

Diagnostic Presentation Updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Diagnostic decoding and localization
Packages/Shared/CMUXMobileCore/..., Packages/iOS/...
Expands diagnostic field rendering and payload decoding, updates localized titles and labels, and strengthens injected-attach result assertions.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 703ab

This PR adds native syntax highlighting for standalone file previews with bounded scanning, settings integration, and documented test coverage; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FilePreviewPanel
  participant FilePreviewTextEditor
  participant FilePreviewSyntaxHighlightController
  participant FilePreviewSyntaxHighlighter
  FilePreviewPanel->>FilePreviewTextEditor: pass filename and persisted setting
  FilePreviewTextEditor->>FilePreviewSyntaxHighlightController: configure and refresh
  FilePreviewSyntaxHighlightController->>FilePreviewSyntaxHighlighter: run cancellable scan
  FilePreviewSyntaxHighlighter-->>FilePreviewSyntaxHighlightController: return bounded tokens
  FilePreviewSyntaxHighlightController-->>FilePreviewTextEditor: apply or clear colors
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ❌ Error The new production controller schedules a 180 ms MainActorCoalescingDeadlineTimer on text changes for scan debouncing. This is timer-based synchronization, not test scaffolding or UI animation. Replace the fixed-delay debounce with an explicit editor completion/state signal or another approved event-driven cancellation mechanism.
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ❌ Error cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj adds the CmuxFilePreviewSyntax SwiftPM reference and products, but the root Xcode Package.resolved has no PR diff. Commit the matching root Xcode lockfile at cmux.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace/xcshareddata/swiftpm/Package.resolved with the Xcode package-reference change.
Cmux Full Internationalization ❌ Error New app-catalog and web-doc localization keys have only English and Japanese entries, while the touched catalog and web locale registry support 20 locales. Add translated entries for every supported app locale and every locale message file for the new settings and documentation keys.
Cmux No Ambient Global State ❌ Error The new FilePreviewSyntaxHighlightSettings struct (Sources/Panels/FilePreviewSyntaxHighlightSettings.swift:11-24) is an empty static namespace with key, defaultEnabled, and isEnabled. Replace the namespace with a constructable settings reader that stores injected UserDefaults and exposes instance behavior; construct it at the app seam and pass it to preview consumers.
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The PR includes unrelated diagnostic presentation, mobile attach test, and shared API documentation changes outside [#6773]. Remove unrelated diagnostic, mobile test, and shared API changes, or link them to separate issues and pull requests.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 15.31% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: adding syntax highlighting to the built-in file preview.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides a detailed summary and testing information, but it omits the demo video, checklist, and review-trigger sections.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation fulfills the syntax highlighting and light/dark theme requirements in [#6773].
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The new syntax package has no MainActor default and its pure models are Sendable; the UI controller is explicitly @MainActor and uses MainActorTaskStore for UI access.
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed The diff only filters diagnostic session fields in DiagnosticEventPresentation.swift; browser automation routers, worker policy, WebKit waits, and policy tests are unchanged.
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The diff adds no agent-history loader or agent-owned file parsing; syntax scans use @concurrent highlightOffMain, while settings changes only parse one bounded boolean.
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed The diff adds no cache substitution in persistence, history, undo, or snapshot paths; editor reads feed temporary UI attributes, and settings-store changes inject UserDefaults without replacing a f...
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed The only changed non-Swift source is a static documentation TSX example; added debounce timing is Swift, and the CI YAML is explicitly out of scope.
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed The diff adds a linear source scan with fixed-size delimiter checks and Set lookups; UI application is bounded to 12,000 tokens, with no nested scalable scans or hot-path sorting/filtering.
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The diff adds no legacy async pattern in production; highlighting uses @concurrent and MainActorTaskStore with cancellation, while the only new Task is awaited test-only cancellation synchronization.
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The new CPU-heavy scanner is behind async @concurrent highlightOffMain; the UI call uses an explicit MainActorTaskStore hop, and no changed async helper violates the rule.
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The diff places resolver, scanner, policy, palettes, and highlighter in the dependency-free CmuxFilePreviewSyntax SwiftPM target with package tests; app changes are AppKit/editor and settings compo...
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PR diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, or NSLog. The new invalid-setting diagnostic uses existing os.Logger with private hashing; the only file write is in a test helper.
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed The diff adds no prohibited user-facing error text; diagnostic reports and logs use summaries that filter session IDs, while raw fields are consumed by telemetry, and new settings copy is generic.
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The diff adds @State over an existing @Observable DefaultsValueModel and @AppStorage; it adds no new ObservableObject, GeometryReader, lazy-row store, or render-time state mutation.
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed The diff uses an existing coalescing timer for edit batching, while one MainActor controller owns scans and colors with revision/length guards and lifecycle cancellation; no race-repair path or dup...
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed The PR diff adds no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, Window, or WindowGroup code. It changes existing file-preview views and the settings row; the auxiliary-window lint passes.
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The origin/main→HEAD diff contains only source, tests, package manifest/docs, localization, configuration, workflow, project wiring, and web docs; no artifact-like paths, binaries, logs, temp dirs,...
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The PR adds no test/debug seam in production Sources: no added test-build guard or seam-named member; highlighting APIs and controller methods have runtime callers, while tests use normal APIs.
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Greptile Summary

Adds native syntax highlighting to cmux's built-in plain-text file preview/editor, supporting ~20 language families. Highlighting is applied via NSLayoutManager temporary attributes (display-only, no text storage mutation) on a size-gated (~600 KB), debounced, off-main tokenizer path, with a light/dark palette driven by editor foreground luminance.

  • New FilePreviewSyntaxTokenizer (pure value-in/value-out Swift scanner with UTF-16 NSRange output) wired into SavingTextView via cancellable Task.detached + generation-guarded main-actor application, with a 12k token cap and full teardown cleanup in dismantleNSView/deinit.
  • New fileEditor.syntaxHighlighting setting (default on) plumbed through Settings UI, Command Palette, cmux.json parser/template, JSON schema, and docs; EN/JA localization added.
  • Language detection by filename and extension covers Swift, TS/JS, Python, Go, Rust, C/C++/ObjC, Java, Kotlin, C#, Ruby, PHP, shell, SQL, CSS, JSON, YAML, TOML/INI.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge — all changes are additive, display-only, and well-isolated; the size gate and token cap preserve existing large-file performance contracts.

The highlighting path is decoupled from text storage and undo via temporary attributes, cancellable generation-guarded tasks prevent stale application, and teardown is covered by both dismantleNSView and deinit. The settings surface is fully wired and consistent with the wordWrap sibling. The only substantive finding is a cosmetic scanning imprecision for multi-line backtick literals in Go/TS; it does not make the editor worse in any data-correctness sense.

No files require special attention beyond the noted cosmetic edge case in FilePreviewSyntaxGrammar.swift around multi-line backtick strings.

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
Sources/Panels/FilePreviewTextEditor.swift Core integration: adds configureSyntaxHighlighting/refreshSyntaxHighlighting/cancelSyntaxHighlightingWork to SavingTextView, with generation-guarded off-main tokenization, debounced re-highlight on edit, and proper teardown in dismantleNSView + deinit. Logic is sound and actor-safe.
Sources/Panels/FilePreviewSyntaxTokenizer.swift Pure scalar-by-scalar scanner with UTF-16 offset tracking, Task.isCancelled checks throughout, and correct escape-sequence handling; scanString breaks on newlines (intentional for single-line strings) but means multi-line backtick literals in Go/JS/TS are not fully identified.
Sources/Panels/FilePreviewSyntaxGrammar.swift Per-language grammar configs look correct; Rust correctly omits single-quote from stringDelimiters; Go/JS/TS include backtick as a delimiter without multi-line support, leading to cosmetic mis-highlighting of raw strings/template literals.
Sources/Panels/FilePreviewSyntaxCursor.swift UTF-16 cursor with eager scalar array copy; correctly tracks surrogate pairs for NSRange accuracy; Task.isCancelled integrated in all advance loops.
Sources/Panels/FilePreviewSyntaxTheme.swift Correct sRGB luminance formula (ITU-R BT.709) for dark/light palette selection; static theme instances avoid per-highlight allocation.
Sources/Panels/FilePreviewSyntaxLanguage.swift Extension-to-language mapping is comprehensive and correct; dotfile name detection covers common shell/config files.
Sources/Panels/FilePreviewSyntaxHighlightSettings.swift Caseless-enum settings namespace mirrors the established FilePreviewWordWrapSettings pattern; consistent with rest of codebase.
Sources/Panels/FilePreviewPanel.swift Minimal change: adds @AppStorage for syntaxHighlighting and passes syntaxLanguage + syntaxHighlightingEnabled down to FilePreviewTextEditor; mirrors wordWrap wiring exactly.
Sources/Panels/MarkdownPanelView.swift Passes syntax params to the source editor embedded in the Markdown panel; constructs URL from panel.filePath for language detection correctly.
Sources/KeyboardShortcutSettingsFileStore.swift Adds syntaxHighlighting bool parsing to the fileEditor section, matching the wordWrap pattern exactly.
Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Sections/AppSection.swift Adds the settings UI row for syntaxHighlighting with a Toggle, accessibilityIdentifier, and observation registration — follows established pattern.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A["SwiftUI updateNSView\n(theme / content / settings change)"] --> B["configureSyntaxHighlighting()\nreturns changed?"]
    B -->|"text changed\nOR config changed"| C["refreshSyntaxHighlighting()"]
    B -->|no change| Z["no-op"]
    C --> D["cancel pendingSyntaxHighlightTask"]
    D --> E{"size ≤ 600 KB\nand enabled?"}
    E -->|no| F["clearSyntaxHighlighting()\n(remove temp attrs)"]
    E -->|yes| G["Task.detached .userInitiated\nFilePreviewSyntaxTokenizer.tokens()"]
    G --> H["Task (MainActor)\nawait tokenizerTask.value\nw/ cancellation handler"]
    H -->|"generation mismatch\nor Task.isCancelled"| I["discard result"]
    H -->|"token count > 12k"| F
    H -->|valid| J["applySyntaxTokens()\nlayoutManager.addTemporaryAttributes\n(per token, MainActor)"]
    K["didChangeText()"] --> L["scheduleSyntaxHighlightRefresh()\ncancel + ContinuousClock.sleep 180ms\nthen refreshSyntaxHighlighting()"]
    M["dismantleNSView / deinit"] --> N["cancelSyntaxHighlightingWork()\ncancel task, bump generation"]
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%%{init: {'theme': 'base', 'themeVariables': {"darkMode": true, "background": "#0d1117", "primaryColor": "#21262d", "primaryTextColor": "#e6edf3", "primaryBorderColor": "#8b949e", "lineColor": "#8b949e", "textColor": "#e6edf3", "edgeLabelBackground": "#161b22", "actorBkg": "#21262d", "actorBorder": "#8b949e", "actorTextColor": "#e6edf3", "actorLineColor": "#8b949e", "signalColor": "#8b949e", "signalTextColor": "#e6edf3", "noteBkgColor": "#373320", "noteBorderColor": "#d4a72c", "noteTextColor": "#f0e6c0", "labelBoxBkgColor": "#21262d", "labelBoxBorderColor": "#8b949e", "labelTextColor": "#e6edf3", "loopTextColor": "#e6edf3", "activationBkgColor": "#30363d", "activationBorderColor": "#8b949e"}}}%%
flowchart TD
    A["SwiftUI updateNSView\n(theme / content / settings change)"] --> B["configureSyntaxHighlighting()\nreturns changed?"]
    B -->|"text changed\nOR config changed"| C["refreshSyntaxHighlighting()"]
    B -->|no change| Z["no-op"]
    C --> D["cancel pendingSyntaxHighlightTask"]
    D --> E{"size ≤ 600 KB\nand enabled?"}
    E -->|no| F["clearSyntaxHighlighting()\n(remove temp attrs)"]
    E -->|yes| G["Task.detached .userInitiated\nFilePreviewSyntaxTokenizer.tokens()"]
    G --> H["Task (MainActor)\nawait tokenizerTask.value\nw/ cancellation handler"]
    H -->|"generation mismatch\nor Task.isCancelled"| I["discard result"]
    H -->|"token count > 12k"| F
    H -->|valid| J["applySyntaxTokens()\nlayoutManager.addTemporaryAttributes\n(per token, MainActor)"]
    K["didChangeText()"] --> L["scheduleSyntaxHighlightRefresh()\ncancel + ContinuousClock.sleep 180ms\nthen refreshSyntaxHighlighting()"]
    M["dismantleNSView / deinit"] --> N["cancelSyntaxHighlightingWork()\ncancel task, bump generation"]
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- Fix a compile error in the SQL keyword set: an inline array literal as the
  receiver of `.union(...)` was inferred as `[String]` (no `union`); wrap it in
  `Set(...)`. (`-parse` did not catch this; `-typecheck` does.)
- Consume the `fileEditor.syntaxHighlighting` key in the cmux.json parser
  (KeyboardShortcutSettingsFileStore) and add it to the generated template, so
  the documented configuration key actually takes effect. Add a regression test
  mirroring the existing wordWrap parser test.
- Localize the new curated settings-search entry title via the existing
  `settings.app.fileEditorSyntaxHighlighting` key instead of a hard-coded
  English string.

Addresses autoreview findings on #6897.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address cmux Aziz file-organization policy (one major type per new file):
- FilePreviewSyntaxHighlighting.swift (TokenKind/Token/Language/Theme) and
  FilePreviewSyntaxVocabulary.swift (Keywords/Types) are split into one file per
  type: FilePreviewSyntaxTokenKind/Token/Language/Theme/Keywords/Types.swift.
- Replace the nested FilePreviewSyntaxGrammar.BlockComment struct with a
  (open, close) tuple so the grammar file holds a single type.
- Document the highlight-debounce Task.sleep as a bounded, cancellable delay
  (the delay is the intended coalescing behavior, not a poll/settle/race).

The tokenizer keeps its private nested Cursor scanner (an implementation
detail, not a major type), and the new parser regression test stays colocated
with the existing wordWrap parser test in its XCTest suite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
MarkdownPanelView's text/source mode also embeds FilePreviewTextEditor; pass
the new syntaxLanguage (nil for markdown -> plain text) and
syntaxHighlightingEnabled arguments so the app target compiles.

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Autoreview status: the structured Codex review is clean — "No actionable defects were found ... the new syntax highlighting path is bounded by a size limit, uses temporary display attributes rather than mutating text storage, is wired through settings/config/docs/localization, and includes focused tokenizer and settings parsing tests."

cmux-policy-check reports 3 findings, all deliberate carve-outs:

  1. FilePreviewSyntaxTokenizer.swift — nested Cursor. A private nested scanning cursor; it's an implementation detail, not a major type. Promoting it to a module-internal top-level type would expose an implementation detail for no benefit.
  2. FilePreviewTextEditor.swift — Task.sleep. The highlight debounce: a bounded, cancellable coalescing delay where the delay itself is the intended behavior (avoids running the O(token) temporary-attribute apply on every keystroke). Not a poll/settle/race — each edit cancels and reschedules the single pending task. Documented inline per the concurrency carve-out.
  3. KeyboardShortcutSettingsFileStoreStartupTests.swift — XCTest. The new fileEditor.syntaxHighlighting parser regression test is colocated with its sibling wordWrap parser test in the existing XCTest suite; splitting one new assertion into a separate Swift Testing file would fragment one behavior suite.

Greptile's two findings are answered inline (English deep-merge fallback handles the other 18 locales by design; the settings enum mirrors the established FilePreviewWordWrapSettings pattern).

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In `@Sources/Panels/FilePreviewSyntaxGrammar.swift`:
- Around line 72-81: The `.objc` branch in FilePreviewSyntaxGrammar is reusing
FilePreviewSyntaxTypes.c, which leaves common Foundation/Cocoa types uncolored.
Update the Objective-C grammar to use a types list that includes the existing C
types plus Objective-C/Foundation symbols such as NSString, NSArray,
NSDictionary, NSNumber, NSObject, and CGRect, while keeping id and BOOL in
FilePreviewSyntaxKeywords.objc. Look at FilePreviewSyntaxGrammar.objc and the
type definitions in FilePreviewSyntaxTypes.swift to add the missing
Objective-C-specific type entries.

In `@Sources/Panels/FilePreviewSyntaxTypes.swift`:
- Around line 1-79: Add a dedicated Objective-C type list in
FilePreviewSyntaxTypes instead of reusing the C set for the .objc grammar case.
Introduce a new static let objc: Set<String> in FilePreviewSyntaxTypes that
starts from c and adds common Foundation/CoreGraphics symbols like NSString,
NSArray, NSDictionary, NSObject, NSInteger, CGFloat, CGRect, CGSize, and
CGPoint, then update FilePreviewSyntaxGrammar’s .objc branch to reference
FilePreviewSyntaxTypes.objc so Objective-C files highlight these types
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