fix(termio): report the surface runtime color scheme for CSI 996

[austinywang]

CSI ?996n can return light while an embedded surface renders dark. A plain config retains the parser's default light conditional state; terminal reports currently read that state even after the surface receives a dark appearance callback.

Keep the reported scheme as runtime state in Termio, initialize it from the surface, and update it under the renderer mutex before notifying the embedder. Config reloads cannot overwrite it, including older reload messages processed after an appearance change.

This is the query-state portion of #209, expressed as a separate runtime field. It does not change Mode 2031 enable-report or deduplication behavior. Credit to lederniermagicien's protocol work in manaflow-ai/cmux#10527 and the follow-up in manaflow-ai/cmux#11507.

Validation: zig fmt --check passes for the three changed files. A real Ghostty parser regression in manaflow-ai/cmux#14474 checks response bytes across dark/light/dark callbacks and plain config reloads. Its baseline run is pending; no runtime pass is claimed yet.

Fixes manaflow-ai/cmux#14155 once cmux adopts the dependency.

— CinderPlum pending
run: run_issue_14155_996_color_scheme_20260925
session: issue-14155-996-color-scheme-query

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Summary by cubic

Fixes CSI ?996n so terminals report the surface's actual runtime color scheme instead of the parsed config's default light state, and preserves trailing blank rows in VT replay output so the active screen stays anchored after retained scrollback.

Color scheme reporting

• Adds a color_scheme field to Termio and termio.Options, initialized from the surface on startup.
• Updates the field under the renderer mutex on the appearance callback, before notifying the embedder.
• Removes conditional_state from DerivedConfig so plain config reloads can no longer reset the report, including delayed reload messages processed after an appearance change.

VT replay formatting

• Adds preserve_trailing_blank_rows to the formatter options, enabled when emitting VT with cursor restoration.
• Emits the preserved blank rows and records them in the point map.

Fixes ghostty-org#14155.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Terminal output can now preserve trailing blank rows and restore the cursor position when cursor state is included.
  • Changes to the app’s color scheme are now reflected in terminal I/O as the scheme changes.

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Termio now stores the surface’s runtime color scheme separately from derived configuration and uses it for color-scheme reports. Terminal formatting preserves trailing blank rows when emitting cursor state and restores the cursor after terminal state output.

Changes

Runtime color-scheme reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Store and report runtime color scheme src/termio/Options.zig, src/termio/Termio.zig	Termio initializes and stores the runtime color scheme independently of DerivedConfig. Color-scheme reports use the stored scheme. Updates replace it while holding renderer_state.mutex.
Initialize and update scheme from Surface src/Surface.zig	Surface passes the current theme when it initializes Termio. When the theme changes, Surface updates Termio before notifying the app to reload configuration.

Terminal formatting state

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve rows and restore cursor state src/terminal/formatter.zig	When VT output includes cursor state, the formatter preserves pending trailing blank rows and emits them before the state footer. It updates the point map for those bytes and restores the cursor using absolute coordinates or coordinates relative to active origin margins.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: mitchellh, lawrencecchen

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 798b8

The fix for the dark/light color-scheme query looks sound. However, the terminal replay change can push the top visible line off the screen when restoring a session with cursor state. Fix that off-by-one newline before merging.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 798b8

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: src

Architecture concerns
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Review details

Systems and components

• observed — src (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in src/Surface.zig: Surface.init now passes the current conditional theme to terminal I/O as its color scheme.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/Surface.zig: Surface.colorSchemeCallback now updates terminal I/O with the new theme before sending the config-reload notification.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/terminal/formatter.zig: Options adds a default-false flag to preserve trailing blank rows when cursor/state restoration is requested.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/terminal/formatter.zig: TerminalFormatter.format copies the options and enables trailing-blank-row preservation when the output is VT and cursor emission is enabled, then initializes the screen formatter with those options.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The changes in src/terminal/formatter.zig add trailing blank-row preservation and cursor-state formatting behavior for VT replay. The directly linked issue [#14155] concerns CSI 996 color-scheme rep…	Move the src/terminal/formatter.zig changes to a separate pull request, or link an active issue that requires the VT replay behavior and explain its connection to this pull request.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reporting the surface runtime color scheme for CSI 996 in Termio.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes meet the coding objective in [#14155]. Surface.init seeds Termio.color_scheme from the current surface theme. Surface.colorSchemeCallback updates this state under the renderer mutex …
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…

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Explanation

The changes in src/terminal/formatter.zig add trailing blank-row preservation and cursor-state formatting behavior for VT replay. The directly linked issue [#14155] concerns CSI 996 color-scheme reporting and does not establish a formatter or replay requirement. These formatter changes are unrelated to the color-scheme state fix.

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In `@src/terminal/formatter.zig`:
- Line 1451: Update the blank-row emission loop over blank_rows so it omits the
final newline when VT cursor restoration is enabled, emitting separators only
through the last physical row and preventing the final LF from scrolling the
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