Preview navigation performance: restyle, capture cache, oversized chunks, resize - #105
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… cold-nav wait
Navigating between matches inside one large file got slower the longer a session
went on, and the preview settled in two to four visible steps rather than one.
Both symptoms come from the same place.
## The leak
``dispatch_mount``'s same-file out-of-window branch builds a fresh
PreviewContainer and returns early, on a comment asserting the old one is "swept
on the next navigation". The sweep lives further down, on the cross-file path,
which that early return never reaches. Stay inside one file — the common case in
a large document — and nothing was ever reclaimed.
Nothing failed loudly; it just degraded. Measured over 30 in-file navigations on
a 1018-chunk PDF:
mounted chunks 11 -> 270 now 11 -> 18
pane widgets 440 -> 14,551 now 440 -> 1,021
containers 23 now bounded
navigation median 2,739ms now 1,335ms
navigation max 7,788ms now 2,453ms
scroll reversals 6 now 0
Textual's arrange is linear in widget count, so by the thirtieth navigation each
layout pass was walking 14.5k widgets; the scroll commits then landed far enough
apart to be seen as separate movements. A fresh session looked fine, which is
what made this hard to catch — and why the regression test needs a fixture above
FULLMOUNT_CHUNK_BUDGET: a smaller file is mounted whole, every jump scrolls in
place, and the leaking path never runs. The first version of that test passed
with the fix reverted.
``sweep_stranded_containers`` is extracted and called from both paths, with
``prune_active_to_window`` on the same-file branch.
## Above-window sized in rows, not chunks
Everything mounted ABOVE the focus must build before the reveal, since it decides
where the match lands; everything below need not. A fixed chunk count misprices
that for every format at once — a PDF chunk is a page (30-60 rows), a markdown
chunk one heading's section (2-3 rows). Seven pages is several screens of
waiting; seven short sections is less than the context margin, which pins the
match to the top with nothing above it.
``above_window_start`` walks up until roughly a viewport of estimated rows is
covered, bounded by VISIBLE_FIRST_ABOVE. Real terminal, 3x40 navigations: first
paint 1796 -> 1493ms, the finalize's build wait 1457 -> 848ms, the
reconcile-to-scroll gap 731 -> 517ms.
## Prefetch pre-mount
The structural pre-mount only pays off if the container it builds survives to be
used, and PREVIEW_CACHE_MAX_FILES is 1, so the next put always evicts it. It was
not free: one keypress inside a single file re-mounted the same four neighbouring
files every time — 13 prefetch passes over 11 presses, each of the four rebuilt
12-13 times, all on the event loop the navigation's own scroll is waiting on. The
decode and flat bundles are kept; those are cached somewhere unbounded and do get
used.
## Reading-View restore
``_restore_structural`` re-anchored for a fixed twelve refreshes, which is a proxy
for "until the layout stops moving" and breaks whenever the layout moves for
longer than the proxy allows. It now tops its budget up while the preview
pipeline is still working, bounded so a wedged pipeline cannot hold the loop open.
## Instrumentation
``first_paint`` (on both reveal paths) and one line per pane-scroll site. Inferring
first paint by diffing captured frames measures how MUCH of the pane changed
rather than when, which mis-ranks any design that paints early and fills in
behind it. Four test stand-ins model ``diag_log`` rather than production code
defending against their absence.
2484 passed, 3 skipped; pyright clean.
…nternally Textual's DataTable defaults to ``max-height: 100h`` — one VIEWPORT height — so a markdown table with more rows than fit on screen became a nested scroll region with its own vertical scrollbar. Scrolling the document into such a table scrolled the table instead, until it bottomed out. No content was unreachable, and nothing about the rendering changes: same borders, zebra striping, column widths, cell formatting and highlighting. What changes is where the scrolling happens — the table becomes part of the document's own scroll rather than a window onto itself. Only tables taller than the viewport are affected, which is why this has gone unnoticed; most are shorter. Measured on a real 81-row table (WTE Bootstrap cheatsheet, seq 56): 44 rows on screen with a scrollbar, now all 81 with none. Its chunk grows from 44 rows to 109, as any other chunk of that much content would. The reason to do it now is that a nested scroll region cannot be flattened into a run of Strips, so a table capped this way was the one thing a chunk capture could not represent — it would have held only the visible rows. Across three collections the share of chunks that could not be captured goes from 3.4% to zero, and the matched table cells recovered rise with it (UDA 23 -> 47). An explicit ceiling rather than a keyword: Textual rejects ``none``, and ``100%`` resolves against the viewport exactly as ``100h`` does, so both leave the cap in place. 358 table/markdown/preview/scroll/reading tests pass. Navigation on a table-heavy collection is unaffected: 22 of 30 navigations stay in-window at ~0ms with no multi-frame settles.
One navigation reconciles more than once — the finalize commits the landing,
then the background fill re-anchors after revealing the chunks it mounted above
the match. ``_generation`` only cancels chains from an OLDER navigation, so both
ran at the same generation and neither cancelled the other: two chains, two
committed scrolls, and the retry budget spent twice.
Measured over 30 in-file navigations on a 1018-chunk PDF:
navigations committing >1 scroll 22/30 -> 3/30
retry ticks, median 62 -> 48
navigations with >1 visible move 5/30 -> 4/30
Two scrolls landing at different moments is what a reader sees as the preview
settling in steps instead of going to the match, so the invariant worth holding
is "at most one commit per navigation" rather than any particular timing.
A monotonic epoch, bumped by ``arm()`` and by every ``reconcile()``, is handed to
the strategy in place of the generation. Its existing freshness guard then
cancels a superseded chain within a navigation as well as across navigations, so
the older chain stops rescheduling rather than running its budget out alongside
the newer one.
The reveal latch is held on the controller and inherited, because the two cases
differ. Superseded by a newer CHAIN: stay silent — that chain holds this latch
and fires it when it lands; revealing here would surface the container before the
newer scroll commits, which is the flash-then-jump this path exists to prevent.
Superseded by a newer NAVIGATION: fire, because the reveal floor still applies
(it is identity-guarded, so it no-ops on a stale container).
Latency is unaffected. Interleaved A/B against the committed state, 4 rounds
alternating so machine drift falls on both variants equally: build wait +10ms,
reconcile-to-scroll +87ms, first paint +30ms, time-to-quiet -80ms. An earlier
non-interleaved comparison put the cost at +290ms; that was the machine, not the
change, which is why dev/tools/ab_nav.py now exists.
The regression test pins the controller, not a driven app. An end-to-end version
was written first and discarded: it passed with the fix reverted, because the
autouse fixtures pin preview debounce and prefetch to 0 and the second chain
never materialises in-suite. The end-to-end numbers above come from
dev/tools/nav_jump_probe.py against a real corpus at real defaults.
450 preview/scroll/nav/match tests pass.
…ult) The preview's cost is not rendering markdown, it is holding widgets: Textual's arrange is linear in widget count, and a chunk is tens of them. Phase 3 background-fills a whole file so an intra-file jump lands on an already-mounted chunk instead of rebuilding — which works, and leaves a real file holding 99 chunks and 2,735 widgets, taxing every interaction thereafter. Freezing keeps what Phase 3 buys and drops what it costs. A built chunk is captured as the Strips it painted and replaced by one widget that serves them by row, so the chunk is still there to jump to at ~1 widget instead of ~28. Measured on a real 99-chunk file: 2,735 -> 805 widgets, all 99 still mounted. Against the arrange curve (400 chunks: 41.7ms as widget trees, 2.1ms frozen) that is roughly 25ms -> 4ms per layout pass, a frame and a half down to a quarter of one. Fidelity is not re-implemented and so cannot drift: the chunk is still built by the real FNDMarkdown, and the strips are that tree's own output. Tables, fenced code, list bullets, inline formatting and the match highlighting all survive because none of them are re-derived. Verified against the live tree on three collections — every line it painted, plus the match stops and matched table cells as row numbers. Capture drives a Compositor directly. ``Widget.render_lines`` renders only a widget's OWN content — children are composed over it by the Screen — so capturing a container that way returns strips that are styled but EMPTY, which looks exactly like the technique being impossible; this is why a previous attempt was recorded as ruled out. ``Compositor.render_strips`` takes an explicit size, so a chunk taller than the terminal captures in full. Two things learned by measuring rather than reasoning: * the sweep runs AFTER the fill, not per chunk during it. A chunk mounted a moment ago is not laid out, ``size.height`` is 0, and ``freeze`` rightly refuses it — inline attempts failed on all 72 chunks of a real file; * the trigger is the background fill, not ``prune_active_to_window``. Prune returns early below its window threshold, which the container-reclaim fix now keeps it under, so a prune-time trigger never fired at all. Positions are captured while the widgets still exist, which is the point: a match — or a table cell — resolved against a live tree is what races today, since a DataTable's cell region is unresolvable until its rows lay out. A row number recorded at capture time cannot race. Chunks containing a widget that scrolls INSIDE the chunk are refused and stay live: a nested viewport cannot be flattened onto a run of strips. Since tables now lay out in full that is nothing in practice, but the guard is what makes the technique safe in general, so it is tested rather than assumed unreachable. Off by default behind _FND_FREEZE_BACKFILL=1 pending real-terminal measurement of width invalidation (a Reading View toggle re-wraps, so every capture is dropped). 456 tests pass with it off, 434 with it on.
…eeze the lot The first cut of freezing captured chunks and swapped them in, but left the things that READ a chunk still looking for widget trees. A frozen chunk is not an FNDMarkdown, so it contributed nothing to ``enumerate_stop_regions`` or the data-only stop count: its matches quietly dropped out of n/b navigation and the off-screen markers, and a navigation targeting it landed on the chunk top rather than the match. Nothing raised. Keeping the visible window live hid it, because the current result's chunk was always one of the live ones. Wires the three readers to the metadata the capture already held: * ``_match_line_offset`` takes the frozen chunk's recorded first-match row. The live path descends into child widgets to find the match, and freezing is precisely the removal of those children. * ``enumerate_stop_regions`` emits one region per recorded stop row. * ``MatchNavigator._stops_within`` counts recorded stops, so the footer hint and ``current_chunk_has_stops`` stay honest about what n/b can reach. Capture also double-counted table matches: it recorded a row for every match block INCLUDING the table's own cell blocks, then added the cell rows again. ``enumerate_stop_regions`` skips those blocks deliberately — the table owns its cells — and the capture now applies the same rule. A frozen chunk reported 6 stops where the live one reported 5; a parity test pins them equal. With the readers wired, the window no longer has to stay live, which was the whole reason the earlier numbers fell short of the design's intent. Both policies settle at the same DOM — 263 widgets on a real 99-chunk file — because every navigation re-freezes what the last left behind; freezing the window too simply arrives sooner (401 after the initial fill against 688). Measured after twelve real navigations: 92 chunks, all 92 frozen, none live, one widget each. Against 2,735 unfrozen that is a 10x reduction overall, and 30x on the chunk portion. The remaining 171 widgets are not chunks: six live FNDMarkdown trees belonging to a container other than the active one, which the sweep does not walk. Same class as the container-reclaim fix and worth its own look. Also makes the sweep recur. Freezing once after the initial fill is not enough — lazy mount and each later navigation mount more chunks live, so DOM crept back from 402 to 805 over twenty navigations. It now re-freezes around each landing. 457 tests pass with the flag off and on.
Chunk freezing has been measured on the real corpus and driven by hand, and is now the default; ``_FND_NO_FREEZE=1`` opts out. On a real 99-chunk file: 2,735 -> 263 widgets, with every chunk still mounted and jumpable at one widget each. Match navigation, the off-screen markers and scroll-to-cell all read the rows recorded at capture time, so nothing about reaching a match changes. 457 tests pass either way. The swap is layout-neutral, which is what makes it invisible: across 47 real chunks the capture's height matched the height the widget tree occupied every time, so replacing a tree with its capture moves nothing on the page.
Reclamation ran on cross-file dispatch and the same-file rebuild path only. Inside
one file every jump is an in-window scroll and neither path runs, so a container
stranded by an earlier navigation survived for the whole session.
Measured on a real 99-chunk file, twelve in-window navigations after the strand
appeared: one stranded container still held 6 live chunk trees and 169 widgets —
more DOM than the 92 frozen chunks of the file actually being read, and the
dominant remaining term once freezing had dealt with the rest.
containers 2 -> 1 live chunk trees 6 -> 0 pane widgets 263 -> 93
93 widgets for 92 chunks: one per chunk, which is where freezing was always meant
to land.
Also stops the sweep removing ``outgoing``. That is the previous file, held on
screen deliberately so the incoming one can build behind it and swap in without a
blank frame; it is neither active nor cached, so it looked exactly like a strand.
Nothing had reached that case yet — the sweep only ran on paths that set outgoing
after sweeping — but calling it from a third place makes the order no longer
something to rely on.
The test asserts the sweep is REACHED from the in-window landing, not that a
strand disappears. A first version checked the strand and passed with the fix
reverted, because the navigation it drove took the rebuild path after all and was
swept by the old call site.
458 tests pass.
Groundwork for composing the preview as ONE widget per file. A container's virtual size is assigned BY the layout pass, so any scroll that compensates for content added above is validated against a stale extent — measured, a 7-row error, or three frames of drift when corrected afterwards. A ScrollView owns its virtual size, so content, extent and offset move in one synchronous block. FrozenDocument assembles captured chunks into document rows (bisect lookup) and carries the match, stop and table-cell positions across a prepend. FrozenDocumentView serves those rows and keeps the viewport still while growing in either direction. Not wired to anything yet; behaviour is unchanged.
Both preview substrates are the same widget at heart — a ScrollView holding one Strip per visual row, served through the line API so cost is bounded by terminal height rather than document size. The flat buffer already implemented all of it; the frozen markdown path was about to implement it a second time. Pulls the substrate-agnostic half out: extent, viewport paint, scroll-with- retries that survives being called before layout, scrollbar match markers, and multi-line selection. Subclasses supply their strips and their addressing. A base class rather than reuse in place, because the width rebuild cannot be inherited: the flat path re-renders FileView.lines, and doing that to a frozen capture would re-render markdown as plain text and silently discard tables, fences and highlighting. _rebuild_for_width is a hook, so no inherited path can reach the wrong one. Behaviour is unchanged — no test file is touched. LineBufferPreview keeps its public surface (scroll_to_line, match_lines, top_logical_line) as thin aliases over the base.
FrozenDocumentView now subclasses StripDocumentView, so the viewport paint, the scroll that survives being called before layout, the scrollbar match markers and multi-line selection all come from one place instead of two. A document row is the address here — unlike the flat buffer there is no wrap step between them — so the substrate supplies only its strips and its chunk lookups. Frozen documents gain three things they did not have: markers on the scrollbar, multi-line copy, and the base's segment compositing, which paints plain-text cells at the widget's cascaded background rather than letting them fall through to the terminal default. prepend keeps issuing its compensating scroll directly rather than through scroll_to_address: that path can defer itself to a later refresh when the widget is not laid out, and a deferred compensation is the drift prepend exists to avoid. Mutation-checked — reversing the order drifts the viewport. Adds document-level parity: three real chunks assembled into a document reach the same stop count and put each chunk's first match on the same row as the live widget tree. Mutation-checked with a one-row error in match_row.
…get tree The freeze sweep already captures every chunk the user reads, then threw those captures away with the container. Keeping them makes a return visit to a file a synchronous scroll: no build wait, no settle barrier, no retry chain — which is where the measured navigation latency actually lives. A stored document is a CONTIGUOUS run of chunks, not necessarily the whole file. Completeness is not attainable — the background fill stops the moment the user takes scroll control, so a 41-chunk file typically captures 40 — but a run is self-consistent for every chunk inside it, and it is served only when the target chunk is in it. A gap would silently shift every row after it, so gaps end the run instead. One strategy now serves both single-widget substrates. FlatScrollStrategy takes the view through a getter and addresses it in the shared vocabulary, so the flat line buffer and the frozen document share 60 synchronous lines rather than each needing their own; StructuralScrollStrategy's ~650 lines of proxies, anchors and settle budget are needed only by the per-chunk tree. Off by default behind _FND_DOC_PREVIEW=1 — the substrate is complete but has not had the hand-driven session on a real corpus that every other default flip on this branch got. Known gap while it is off: strips are width-locked and the frozen _rebuild_for_width is still a no-op, so a resize must invalidate the store before this can ship on. The store key is the PANE width, not the capture's own width: a chunk renders narrower than the pane by the container's padding (measured 63 against 64), so keying on the capture would miss on every lookup.
Captures are width-locked. Unlike the flat buffer they cannot be re-wrapped — there is no text left to re-render, only strips — so a width change invalidates rather than reflows, and the widget path re-captures at the new width on its way through. Correctness deliberately does NOT depend on the resize event firing at the right moment. on_resize runs before layout, so the width read there is still the old one — measured, and it is why a one-shot "has the width changed?" guard latched the stale value and never fired again. Instead: * the store key carries the width, so a lookup at the current width cannot return a capture cut for another one; * active_document_view re-measures the pane every time it is asked, so a stale document on screen can never be scrolled or served; * put() evicts other widths, since a put always carries a settled width. A HEIGHT-only resize keeps every capture: a vertical window drag must not rebuild everything the user has already read. Mutation-checked by making the store ignore width in its key, which serves the old-width capture and fails the test.
A harvested run stops short of the file — the background fill bails the moment the user takes scroll control, so a 41-chunk file typically captures 40, and a jump to the tail falls back to the rebuild the substrate exists to avoid. Warming mounts the missing chunks into the container already on screen, captures them, and extends the document at whichever end they belong to. Growth stays contiguous by construction: only chunks immediately before or after the run are taken, and a failure at one end stops THAT end. Two directional loops rather than one, because a single loop cannot express "stop growing down but keep going up" — and a skip in either direction leaves a hole that shifts every row past it. When the document is on screen the growth goes through the view's own prepend/append, so extent and scroll offset move in one synchronous block and the reader's position never shifts. This is what the atomic prepend was built for; until now nothing called it. Runs after a delay: warming is for the jump AFTER this one, so it must never compete with the paint the user is waiting on. Acceptance is COVERAGE, not latency — which jumps can be served without a rebuild — because latency measurements on this branch have been misleading three separate times. Mutation-checked by disabling the warm task, which leaves the run short and fails the test.
…acuous test Measured on the real corpus, warming made WTE navigation WORSE — 170ms -> 579ms median across 14 downs — by reintroducing exactly what the pipeline work removed: background filling that competes with the scroll the user is waiting on. Three causes, three fixes: * it mounted while the controller was still settling. It now yields to an in-flight landing, the same signal lazy_mount already respects; * it settled once PER CHUNK, slow enough that a 117-chunk file reached 33 before the next navigation cancelled it. Now one settle per batch of 8; * every in-file navigation re-harvested, cancelled the task mid-batch and restarted from the same short run. A warm task for the same file is now left alone. It also no longer grows UPWARD while the container is the visible substrate: mounting above the viewport shoves content down, which is why the original background fill filled below only. Removes the warming coverage test, which was vacuous — the fifth on this branch. Its fixture sat UNDER the full-mount budget, where the background fill already covers the whole file, so the assertion was true before warming ran. With a fixture that genuinely needs warming (above the budget) the harvest does not fire at all, so the benefit is currently unproven rather than proven. Recorded limit: warming needs a laid-out container, because capture needs real geometry. Serving a document hides the container (display: none), which zeroes layout and makes freeze refuse — so warming cannot run in the state where it would help most. On a real 1018-chunk file it moved coverage 11 -> 28.
Warming was blocked by the way its container was hidden, not by anything
structural. Probed directly — same chunk, four hosts, captured at an explicit
size:
visible 94x39 853 chars
display:none 0x0 0 chars (freeze refuses)
opacity:0 94x39 853 chars (identical to visible)
offscreen 94x39 853 chars (identical to visible)
Capture needs real geometry, and display:none has none — an explicit compositor
size does not rescue it. opacity:0 keeps the layout and captures identically.
The container whose document is being warmed now uses `-warming` (opacity),
every other one keeps `-hidden` (display), so the DOM saving is unchanged for
all but the one file being captured. The class is dropped when warming ends,
because a laid-out widget tree is exactly the cost this substrate removes.
This also unblocks UPWARD growth, which was previously unreachable: an
opacity:0 container cannot visibly shift, so mounting above the viewport is
safe, and FrozenDocumentView.prepend keeps the served document still.
The mechanism was already in this file — `-pre-reveal { opacity: 0% }` exists
for the same reason, with a comment explaining that visibility:hidden breaks
scrolling. Reaching for display:none was the error.
Pins the difference as a test, because it is invisible in the source: both read
as "hide it", and picking the wrong one silently disables warming rather than
breaking anything.
This reverts commit 0baf2da.
Measured on the real corpus (CPL, 1018-chunk guide, 34 navigations):
median nav 1750ms -> 607ms
states>1 28/34 -> 18/34
coverage -- -> 670 of 1018 chunks
Three changes, each from a measurement rather than a guess:
1. Chunks are built and captured on an installed, non-current Screen
(warm_host). Every way of hiding a live container is wrong: display:none
zeroes the layout so freeze refuses; opacity:0 keeps the geometry but blends
foreground into background, producing a capture with all its characters and
fg == bg on every segment — present and invisible, cached and served blank
(that shipped, and was reverted); an off-viewport offset captures correctly
but stays in flow, costing 13.1ms vs 0.5ms of arrange and collapsing the 1fr
document view. A suspended screen costs nothing per tick because the
compositor walks the active screen only.
2. Warming no longer dies with the container it started under. It required
is_live(container), which tied coverage to a widget tree navigation
replaces, so warming stopped on the first jump and never resumed. That, not
cost, is what capped coverage at 83 of 1018: a chunk costs 8.5ms to build
and capture, so the whole file is ~12.5s of background work, and 400
consecutive real chunks produced zero refusals.
3. Progress is published per batch instead of at the end. A file switch cancels
warming routinely, and publishing only on completion discarded everything
captured up to that point.
Still behind _FND_DOC_PREVIEW=1. states>1 is improved but not solved, and its
root cause is still open — the remaining signature is a settled content landing
before the scroll commits, which is upstream of this substrate.
…efects Five fixes to the warming path, four of them from an adversarial review of the previous commit. All were introduced by that commit. MEMORY. MAX_DOCUMENTS = 4 was chosen when a captured document held a handful of chunks; warming grows one to the whole file, so the count capped the wrong quantity. Measured on the real corpus: 44.5 KB per captured chunk (1670 bytes per row), so 1463 chunks is 63.5 MB and four of those 254 MB. Rows are what grow, so rows are budgeted — 20,000 (~33 MB), evicted oldest-first, never the document just stored (it is the one on screen, and dropping it would rebuild what the user is reading). Warming stops at the same budget rather than growing a document that would only be evicted for its size. WIDGET LEAK ON CANCELLATION. capture()'s cleanup was `finally: with suppress(Exception): await widget.remove()`. CancelledError is a BaseException and it lands ON the await, so the removal was skipped exactly when it was needed — and cancellation is how warming normally ends. Measured: 12 stranded widget trees across 29 cancellations, ~28 widgets each, unbounded over a session and invisible to the row budget because strands are widgets, not rows. Now unawaited under suppress(BaseException); remove() posts the removal by itself. Mutation-checked: the awaited form strands 6 trees and slows the test from 0.6s to 4 minutes, which is the message-pump tail of the same bug. STALE HIGHLIGHTING. capture() read the app's live match spec while still_valid() was only checked BETWEEN batches, so a query change mid-batch produced up to 8 chunks highlighted for the new query, appended to a document filed under the old query's key where nothing can ever correct them. The caller now snapshots the spec and passes it in. EVICTION STORM. publish() carried the width snapshot from task start, and put() evicts captures of other widths — so a warm task outliving a resize wiped every correctly-sized document, and per-batch publishing turned one bad write into a repeating one. Publishing is skipped once the pane width has moved. SUPERSEDED QUERIES. A reset now cancels warming and clears the store instead of leaving captures that can never be served while they hold row budget. Also removes WarmHost.dispose(), which had no callers: one screen holding one empty container lives for the session and each captured widget is removed in the finally, so an uncalled teardown method only advertised a cleanup nobody did.
…y file
MEMORY BUDGET, dynamic. A fixed row count was wrong in both directions: it
starves a user with a 5,000-page PDF and under-uses a workstation. The cache now
takes 5% of physical RAM, floored at 64 MB (or when RAM cannot be read) and
ceilinged at 1 GB — 5% of 64 GB would be 3.2 GB, past useful and into rude.
Measured pricing: 1670 bytes per captured row, 44.5 KB per chunk.
Crucially the budget bounds the CACHE, not the document on screen: put() never
evicts the document just stored, so the file being read is served whole however
large it is. The budget only decides how many OTHER files stay warm around it.
WARMING NOW REACHES EVERY FILE. It was started only by the harvest that follows
a widget-path mount, and the document path returns before harvest — so a file
served from the store never grew, and warming helped the first file of a session
and no other. dispatch_document_mount now starts warming for a partial document
it serves, fetching the chunk list on a worker so the navigation itself still
does no decode work.
WARMING SURVIVES RESETS THAT DO NOT INVALIDATE IT. still_valid compared
reset_generation, which also bumps for scope changes and highlight re-renders;
measured, warming then started and stopped before capturing a single chunk. It
now compares the query signature, which is what the store keys on and therefore
what actually decides whether a capture can ever be served.
Measured on the real corpus, interleaved A/B, 24 navigations per arm, two pairs:
median nav 1233/1230 off -> 1176/1086 on
states>1 18/24, 18/24 -> 14/24, 12/24
The latency gain is ~8%, not the 3x an earlier consecutive-run comparison
suggested; the honest win is roughly a third fewer navigations painting an
in-between frame. Warming captures ~10 chunks/second in a live app — 8.5ms of
work behind ~90ms of message pump — so a 1018-chunk file needs ~90s before every
jump lands in-window, and until then the rebuilds dominate the median. Larger
batches, shorter yields, and batching the mounts were all tried and rejected:
the last starved the pump and blanked the preview 28 times in 24 navigations.
The seam test runs at the seam deliberately. Any file small enough for a fast
test warms to completion before a revisit can be staged, so the end-to-end
version silently tested nothing — it passed without the fix.
…offset One FrozenDocumentView is reused across files, so it carried the outgoing file's scroll_offset into the incoming one — measured, a new document opened at row 160 of a file that row means nothing in. The view was also revealed before its scroll could land: while display:none it has no height, so the scroll deferred itself, and FlatScrollStrategy reported it settled anyway. Three parts. set_document resets the scroll, via set_reactive so the assignment does not run validators that would clamp against the OUTGOING document's extent. The view is laid out but unpainted first (-pre-reveal, opacity — the same mechanism the per-chunk containers already use), so the scroll has real geometry to resolve against. And the reveal waits on is_positioned rather than on the assumption that a document scroll is synchronous, bounded to 8 refreshes and revealing anyway if that runs out: a frame late is a glitch, never painting is a broken app. Correctness, NOT the performance symptom. Measured on the real corpus this does not move states>1 (14/24 and 14/24, against 14/24 and 12/24 before), because the harness sweep stays inside one file and barely exercises a document switch. The wrong-offset frame is real and this removes it; the remaining in-between frames during IN-FILE navigation have a different, still-unidentified cause, and the earlier claim that this was that cause was based on one frame dump and a code read rather than a measurement.
… the cursor
Intra- and inter-file navigation, measured on a real corpus throughout.
Freezing was sliding the page. `freeze` captures `chunk.size` — the CONTENT
region — while a live chunk carries `.chunk-section` / `.chunk-first` padding,
so every stand-in was one row shorter than the widget it replaced. The sweep
freezes chunks ABOVE the viewport as well as below, so the content above shrank
with `scroll_y` unchanged and everything the user was reading slid upward:
measured -6 rows for 6 chunks frozen above, a second or two after the
navigation had settled, which is when it reads as the page moving on its own.
The capture now carries the padding across. The old claim that the swap was
"layout-neutral across 47 real chunks" was not true, and no test could see it
because the fixture mounted chunks without the classes that carry the padding.
Matches near the end of a file rendered blank. The freeze sweep ran before the
incoming container was revealed, capturing from a widget that was still
`-pre-reveal` (opacity 0) — correctly-sized, completely empty strips, which no
guard could detect because the geometry was right. `freeze` now refuses any
widget that is not being painted, and the sweep waits for the reveal.
Jumps outside the mounted window rebuilt from source, every time. A file past
`FULLMOUNT_CHUNK_BUDGET` is never background-filled, and the rebuild discards
the container, so a chunk visited moments earlier was gone by the time the user
came back to it. Coverage now captures the chunks navigation actually visits,
on the off-screen warm host, and every mount path serves a capture where one
exists — so a jump costs one widget instead of a markdown build measured at
400-1274ms for the focus chunk alone.
Captures go to a cache rather than the pane, and that is the load-bearing part:
the mounted set has to stay CONTIGUOUS, since lazy mount only fills at its edges
and a hole would be a stretch of the document silently missing. A capture costs
44.5 KB and no arrange time at all, which is what lets the cache hold a scattered
set spanning several files that the DOM could not. `FULLMOUNT_CHUNK_BUDGET`
stays for the same reason plus one more — the in-file match count walks the
mounted subtree, so a file that stops being filled stops being counted in full.
Coverage is CURSOR-DRIVEN and ordered by what a navigation needs next: the
current file's hits, then the neighbouring files' hits outward from the cursor's
place in the results list, and only then the current file's remaining chunks.
The scarce resource is neither memory nor DOM but time — captures run serially
on one off-screen host at roughly ten chunks a second — so covering a file whole
before its neighbours spent ~30s on chunks no jump lands on while the buffer the
cursor actually needs got nothing. It is re-planned on every move, so the buffer
follows the cursor.
Coverage is also careful about when it does anything at all. It is debounced by
``PREVIEW_WARM_DELAY`` and waits out the landing before planning, so a held-down
arrow key cancels each superseded plan before it does any work; it decides
whether a file needs covering from the results list and the store, with NO
decode, because a listed hit carries the chunk_seq that is the store's key; and
it returns immediately when the budget is zero. Without those, every cursor move
decoded up to five files off the loop just to discover there was nothing to do —
which competed with the landing and, in the windowed case, with scroll-driven
lazy mount.
It also runs as its OWN task. Awaited from the mount it kept `mount_task` alive
for its whole run, and `lazy_mount.check` bails while `user_mount_in_flight()` —
so scrolling upward stopped working for as long as coverage was capturing. And
it waits for a measurable pane width rather than giving up on one: armed at the
start of a navigation, on a cold start that is before layout, and nothing
re-triggers it until the cursor moves again.
Three defects that came out of hand testing the above:
Tables captured off-screen came back as an empty box. The warm host's screen is
not current, so Textual will not lay it out and the host drives the layout
itself; a DataTable sizes in response to its own posted refresh, so after a
single pass it holds its rows with no geometry at all — rows=3, size=0,
virtual=0 — and the capture keeps the border and none of the cells. A second
pass alone does not fix it; a yield to the message pump between passes does.
`freeze` also refuses a table that has rows but no geometry, so a capture can
never be served empty again whatever the cause: the nested-scroll guard could
not see this one, because an unlaid table measures 0 both ways and `virtual >
size` is `0 > 0`.
A stray accent bar sat above the text on a focused chunk. The focused-section
band paints the widget BACKGROUND, and a capture's strips are opaque, so on a
frozen chunk it can only reach the one padding row the strips do not cover.
It was a silent no-op while stand-ins were sized to their strips alone, and
became visible the moment they started carrying the padding they should have.
Frozen chunks are now skipped, as markdown chunks already were.
Coverage now stops when the pane width changes mid-run. A reflow (Reading View,
a resize) invalidates every capture cut at the old width — the key carries it,
so they can never be served — and carrying on spent the one serial host on work
that is discarded while competing with the reflow itself.
Interleaved A/B, two rounds each, on a real corpus:
in-file, 1018-chunk PDF, 18 navigations
rebuild median 1247ms -> 315ms, 1239ms -> 351ms
overall median 862ms -> 136ms, 842ms -> 152ms
cross-file, 3 collections, 14 navigations
overall median 1122ms -> 624ms, 1041ms -> 345ms
multi-landing 11/13 -> 5/11, 11/13 -> 5/12
blanks 0 throughout
The document substrate stays parked and default-off — hand testing found the
per-chunk path better — but its warm host and capture machinery are what
coverage is built on. Its own neighbour warming is superseded and removed.
…nt loop Three findings from hand testing, all measured on a real corpus. Startup had regressed 4x, and not on this branch. v0.0.5 reaches results in 0.74s; the very next commit (#101, "always navigate to a visible, highlighted match") takes 2.99s, and it has been that way on main ever since. #101 makes every listed result prove it has a visible highlight, which word-matches each hit's text — 130,298 `word_matches` calls before first paint — and `_stem` went to the snowball stemmer every single time. `glob_to_regex` rebuilt its regex per word per wildkard on the same path. Both are pure functions of their arguments, so both are now cached: startup (real, tmux) 2.94-3.06s -> 0.98-1.01s word_matches (cumulative) 5.72s -> 0.60s That leaves 0.24s over v0.0.5, which is what #101's evidence checking actually costs once its primitives stop being recomputed. Coverage was taking 84% of the event loop. A capture builds a real markdown widget, and Textual pumps its blocks through the SAME loop the UI runs on, so a capture in flight is a UI that does not answer — and the `is_settling` check sits BETWEEN captures, where it cannot help. Measured sitting still for 12s after opening a file: 154 captures, 10.1 of the 12 seconds inside one. Coverage now idles for a multiple of what each capture cost: ratio captures loop time capturing worst capture none 154 10.1s of 12 (84%) 384ms 2.0 72 4.1s of 12 (34%) 209ms 4.0 44 2.5s of 12 (21%) 169ms 4.0 ships: a cache is worth nothing if filling it makes the app feel slow, and a fifth of the loop still fills 44 chunks in a quiet 12 seconds. With the stemming cache the worst stall the loop sees fell 393ms -> 192ms, with no stall over 250ms at all (there were three). Background work is also stopped when the app exits, rather than being left to finish work whose result is about to be discarded, and a neighbour's chunk decode now runs on a thread the process may exit without — `asyncio.to_thread` uses the loop's default executor, which the loop drains before the process can end. Neighbour decodes are cached in the same map the mount path reads, so a file is decoded once per query rather than once per coverage run and again on arrival. Coverage also stands down while a lazy-mount batch is in flight. Both are background mount work, and lazy mount's above-path awaits a SETTLED message pump before it can measure how far its prepend moved the anchor — while coverage feeds that pump continuously, a widget mounted and removed per capture. Overlapping them left an upward scroll mounting nothing at all, which is a wall the user hits scrolling back up through a file. It surfaced as the same lazy-mount test failing under full-suite load and passing alone; it is pinned now by asserting the invariant directly instead of hoping load reproduces it. Not shipped: standing coverage down while the user is actively typing. It is an obvious idea and it measured as nothing — a +64ms per-keypress cost with the gate against +65ms without, on an instrument whose own baseline swings 165ms to 380ms between runs. Unproven mechanisms are how this preview accumulated the guards that turned out to be doing nothing, so it is left out; COVERAGE_IDLE_RATIO is the dial that does have numbers behind it.
…appened A freeze is an event loop that does not come back, and the hard part is not noticing one — it is knowing which piece of work held it. Guessing has a poor record here: an executor drain, a capture-store teardown and a whole-file chunk decode were each a confident explanation of a reported freeze and each disproved by measurement, while the real one — coverage and lazy mount fighting over the same message pump — was found by a failing test rather than by any of them. So this records instead of inferring. A heartbeat wants to wake every 50ms; when it wakes late by more than the threshold it logs the delay together with what the preview was doing: the chunk being captured, and whether a mount, a landing, a lazy-mount batch or the pipeline was in flight. Enough to name the culprit from a session of ordinary use rather than from a harness that has repeatedly failed to reproduce what the user sees. Off unless ``_FND_STALL_WATCH`` is set, which may carry a millisecond threshold (``_FND_STALL_WATCH=250``); ``=1`` means "on" rather than "report everything over a millisecond". Enabled, it costs one timer wake-up per 50ms and does no work at all unless a stall happens, so it is safe to leave on for a real session. Verified against a deliberate 600ms block on a live app: one line, correctly attributed to the capture that was in flight. The tests pin the two ways a diagnostic goes bad — reporting nothing when the loop genuinely blocked, which would turn "no stalls logged" into false evidence, and reporting stalls on an idle loop.
…ture cache Navigation lag and multi-second freezes traced to four causes, each found by measurement on the real corpus rather than inspection. Whole-subtree CSS restyle. `add_class`/`remove_class` call `App.update_styles`, which walks every descendant and re-runs selector matching on each. A preview container is hundreds of widgets and gets toggled on every activation. Sampling the main thread whenever the event loop went away put 108 of 110 samples inside `Stylesheet.apply`, over half reached through this walk. `preview/visibility.py` restyles only the node, which is sound while a class is never an ancestor selector and never changes descendant geometry; both conditions are enforced by tests rather than trusted. Revisit repro: 21 stalls to 1. `is-loading` hid the pane scrollbar with `scrollbar-size-vertical: 0`, which removed the gutter and so re-wrapped the whole document twice per navigation. It now hides the bar by colour, leaving geometry alone. The capture cache was emptied continuously. The resize sweep compared every capture against the pane's CONTENT width, but captures are filed under the scrollbar-stable outer width; the keys differ by exactly the scrollbar, so the sweep dropped everything each time it ran. The store now holds ten files where it held two. One oversized chunk could freeze the UI for seconds. Textual builds the widget on the event loop, and a 120,123-character chunk took 4,424ms to build into 7,184 rendered rows against a 5.3ms median. Over 40,000 characters a chunk takes the flat per-line path, decided in `uses_markdown_renderer` so the mount, the background warmer and match evidence cannot disagree. Also: captures now promote on read, so the file being read is no longer the first eviction candidate; neighbour warming survives cursor movement, since it is ordered around each file's own first hit rather than the cursor; and the landing index follows the results tree's score order rather than document order. `COVERAGE_MARGIN` 3 to 5 and `COVERAGE_SEED_FILES` added, both swept on the real corpus. Lowering the coverage idle ratio was measured and rejected: it buys almost nothing and nearly triples stalls.
The per-chunk capture path made the whole-document substrate redundant: both existed to avoid rebuilding a file on revisit, and captures do it without the parallel renderer, store, scroll strategy and warming machinery. It was also never on. `_FND_DOC_PREVIEW=1` opted in and nothing else did — yet it was still doing work on every navigation. `_harvest_document` ran at the end of every backfill sweep, and `active_document_view` was consulted by `is_painted`, `showing_parent` and the scroll-strategy selector, so a disabled feature sat in the live path. That turns out to be the cause of a landing bug that had resisted diagnosis: 3 of 48 navigations put the match above the viewport, deterministically and regardless of timing. Raising the scroll retry budget 30 to 200 changed nothing; so did gating the commit on a settled layout, and so did disabling freezing. Removing the substrate takes it to 0, stable across three runs — which is why no amount of scroll-timing work had touched it. Gone: FrozenDocumentView, FrozenDocument, FrozenDocumentStore, dispatch_document_mount, _warm_served_document, start_warming/_warm_document, _harvest_document, hide_document_view, active_document_view, document_preview_enabled, the document_view plumbing, _FND_DOC_PREVIEW, MAX_DOCUMENTS, the `-document` CSS and the two substrate test suites. Kept: WarmHost, freeze, FrozenChunk, FrozenChunkView, StripDocumentView. Capture retention is now bounded by bytes alone, the machine-scaled budget, rather than also by a document count. Real terminal after: 28 mounts, 189 chunks served against 59 built, 17 mounts served whole, 1 stall. Suite drops by exactly the 18 substrate tests removed.
`for _ in range(8): await pilot.pause()` is a wait only while the machine is idle. Under suite load the ticks pass without the work landing, and the test then asserts on a reveal that has not finished — which is how it failed once in a batch while passing in isolation and on re-run. It now waits for the things it actually cares about: the cache entry appearing, the switch away landing, and the revisit settling on the cached container with the progress strip idle. Honest limit: this is the documented-correct pattern rather than a proven fix. The original failure did not reproduce under eight CPU spinners, nor with a delay injected into the finalize path (a cache hit does not take it), so the change is justified by the failure mode it removes rather than by a red-to-green demonstration.
Two adversarial review passes against this branch; this is the whole response. Chunks lay out inside the pane's SCROLLABLE content region, which the vertical scrollbar shrinks by a column. `size` and `content_size` are the same value as each other and neither moves with the bar — so for any document long enough to need a scrollbar, which is every document this feature exists for, coverage cut its strips one column wider than the slot they were served into. The last cell of every row was cropped, the strips were wrapped for a width never displayed, and heights, first_match_row and the stop rows were all off with them. Freeze-sweep captures were unaffected, being cut from the widget's own width, so the store held two different real widths under one key. `capture_key_width` is therefore gone rather than corrected. It returned `size.width` while claiming to be an outer width a scrollbar does not move; both halves were false, and the mismatch it was credited with fixing did not exist — writer, reader and sweep were all on `content_size.width` before it. Filing width and render width are now one number, `capture_width`, which removes the parameter from eight signatures and closes the case where a pass adopts a new render width mid-resize but keeps the old key. The second pass found the same invariant broken the other way by that fix. `WarmHost` lays its screen out `_LAYOUT_HEIGHT` rows tall, so a chunk taller than that overflows its container, the container grows a scrollbar, and the chunk lays out a column narrower than asked for — while being filed under the width requested. The boundary is exactly the layout box (300 rendered rows captured at 76, 420 at 75) and it is reachable at ~9,500 characters, well inside the size cap. Fixed twice over so the class becomes impossible rather than merely absent: the jig no longer reserves a scrollbar column, and captures are filed under the capture's OWN width. The coverage plan loop also carried a width sampled once at pass start, so after a mid-pass resize every store lookup missed — each remaining file reported itself uncovered and paid a full decode, and already-held chunks were re-captured. It re-reads per file now. Tests: the width test that pinned the old behaviour was vacuous — it monkeypatched the width function, so writer and sweep called the same patched thing and it asserted a tautology, passing with the bug present. Replaced with one that refuses to run without a scrollbar and compares against a real mounted chunk's laid-out width. A second test drives the jig past its layout box. The size cap had no test at all and now has one. All three fail against the behaviour they pin. Also clears what the substrate deletion left behind — `PREVIEW_WARM_BATCH`, `FrozenChunk.is_valid_for`, `FlatScrollStrategy`'s view getter, `debug_keys`, `invalidate_documents_on_resize` renamed to `invalidate_captures_on_resize` — and the comments that outlived their code: two that had drifted onto unrelated attributes, one arguing for a value the constant does not hold, one blaming the scrollbar column on container padding, the store docstring still describing the scrollbar-stable key, and the size cap stating its measurements twice in blocks that disagreed about whether the flat path is fast. It is cheaper, not fast: measured at 1,596 lines, flat is 224ms render plus 725ms mount against 979ms structural — near parity, and the win on the real chunk comes from its structural cost being far above linear.
A resize left the preview painting truncated text. `FrozenChunkView` paints width-locked strips and `render_line` crops them to the widget, so shrinking the terminal removed the right-hand cells of every row of every frozen chunk — the text gone rather than re-wrapped — until the next navigation happened to rebuild the file. Measured on a 120-section document, 100 to 80 columns left 87 chunks short by 20 columns, and 11 of 17 rows on one chunk lost ink. The trigger has to be the view, not the pane. `App.on_resize` reaches the presenter through `call_after_refresh`, which runs BEFORE the re-layout: measured at that point the pane still reports its old width and every chunk its old size, so nothing looks stale and no repair ever ran. A widget's own Resize arrives after it has been laid out, carrying the new size — so `FrozenChunkView` reports its own staleness, once per width rather than once per event (a twelve-column drag otherwise produced 522 reports). The repair replaces the strips, not the DOM. A resize changes presentation, not content, so each stale view adopts a capture re-cut at the new width by the same off-screen builder that made the original. Nothing is unmounted, so the pane cannot blank and the mounted run cannot develop a hole. Rebuilding the file instead — the first approach — was measured at a 90ms blank and five full rebuilds for one drag, because a fresh container lays out at intermediate widths and so feeds its own trigger; a trailing-edge debounce made it worse, not better. Bounded, because unbounded it cost 349 captures and 13.8s for that same drag. Off-window chunks are pruned rather than re-captured — lazy mount refills them at the current width when scrolled to, the path that already serves never-mounted chunks — which brings it to 25 captures and 0.76s. The pass abandons if the width moves again, the user navigates or the query changes, and re-arms itself because reports arriving mid-pass are dropped; `STALE_STRIP_MAX_PASSES` is what makes that terminate when a capture keeps failing. Four details were wrong in earlier drafts and are easy to repeat. `Widget.region` is SCREEN-relative and NULL_REGION once the compositor culls a widget, so ordering and the drift correction use `virtual_region`. `prune_active_to_window` scrolls the pane, so the viewport is re-read after it — sampled before, the correction came out as the growth of the whole document, 126 rows where 9 was right. Textual defers removal, so pruned widgets still pass `is_mounted` and the survivor filter needs `is_live`, or the prune saves nothing. And a failed capture must clear the view's width latch, or that chunk can never report again. Also here, from the same review: Reading View invalidates captures (it moves the width 37 columns and orphaned the whole cache); `start_coverage` treats a `cancelling` task as gone, so Toggle Highlights no longer clears the cache and then leaves coverage dead; an abandoned decode no longer prints a traceback onto the restored terminal; the freeze sweep files under the capture's own width like the coverage writer; and a tautological assertion is gone from the size-cap test. Verified: 328 preview/scroll/coverage tests, ruff, pyright strict. The repair is measured — parity between off-screen and on-screen captures, no blanking, no container swap, convergence — and the re-arm and its bound are pinned by a test that fails if either is removed.
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189-229: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winSet explicit timeouts on the new waits.
wait_untildefaults to a 10 second timeout. The added comments state that suite load is the failure mode these waits fix. Peer tests in this cohort pass 20-30 seconds for app-driven waits. Pass an explicit timeout so the intent is visible and the wait survives a loaded run.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@fnd/tui/app.py`:
- Around line 561-567: Update _on_exit_app to retrieve, cancel, and await the
PrefetchEngine.sink_drainer task created by on_mount, before calling
super()._on_exit_app(). Handle cancellation or task errors consistently with the
existing suppressed cleanup blocks, while preserving the current preview and
stall-watch shutdown order.
In `@fnd/tui/line_buffer.py`:
- Around line 329-338: Rename LineBuffer’s row_of_chunk and
first_match_row_of_chunk hooks to address_of_chunk and
first_match_address_of_chunk, and update all callers such as
StripDocumentView.scroll_to_chunk and any base-class declarations or
documentation. Preserve their logical-address behavior so scroll_to_address
continues converting addresses to visual rows.
- Around line 314-320: Update _rebuild_for_width and _rebuild_strips to thread
the requested width through the rebuild: allow _rebuild_strips to accept an
optional width override, use it when calculating wrap_width, and pass width from
_rebuild_for_width. Ensure the guard and rebuild use the same incoming width so
repeated resize events do not re-wrap unnecessarily.
In `@fnd/tui/match_navigator.py`:
- Around line 208-218: Update current_chunk_has_stops to handle FrozenChunkView
explicitly, using its frozen stop data to determine whether the focused chunk
has stops before falling back to the existing FNDMarkdown and plain-chunk
branches. Keep the result consistent with _chunk_stops and
enumerate_stop_regions so frozen chunks with reachable stops enable the matches
hint.
In `@fnd/tui/preview/frozen.py`:
- Around line 102-108: Update the opacity check in the ancestor traversal around
node.styles to reject near-transparent ancestors using a small threshold rather
than requiring opacity to equal exactly zero, while preserving the existing
display and parent traversal behavior.
In `@fnd/tui/preview/lazy_mount.py`:
- Around line 127-133: After await_settled() in the lazy-mount flow, re-resolve
the anchor using container.chunk_widgets.get(anchor_seq) rather than relying on
the original anchor_w reference. Skip scroll compensation when the resolved
widget is absent or no longer live, and use the resolved widget for subsequent
compensation.
In `@fnd/tui/preview/presenter.py`:
- Around line 790-801: Update the prune scroll compensation in the
freeze_on_prune branch of the surrounding presenter logic to subtract each
captured chunk’s outer_height rather than captured.height when adjusting
above_height for chunks above the fold. Preserve the existing mount,
bookkeeping, and frozen_count behavior.
In `@fnd/tui/preview/tuning.py`:
- Around line 168-170: In the tuning comment near the mount-window comparison,
replace the doubled percent signs in 34%%, 31%%, and 25%% with single percent
signs, leaving the surrounding explanatory text unchanged.
- Around line 35-42: Remove the orphaned warming-delay comment immediately
before FREEZE_REVEAL_WAIT_TICKS, leaving only the documentation that describes
the freeze reveal wait behavior.
In `@fnd/tui/preview/warm_host.py`:
- Around line 120-121: Bound the widget.build_done wait in WarmHost so a stalled
build cannot block the serial warm-host pipeline indefinitely. Handle timeout as
a failed capture by logging the timeout and returning or propagating according
to the existing WarmHost error path, while preserving normal completion
behavior.
- Around line 61-92: Update ensure to reuse the existing installed screen
identified by _SCREEN_NAME instead of always calling install_screen for a new
Screen, especially after mount failure; preserve the existing mounted-container
fast path and ensure subsequent calls can retry mounting without failing on
duplicate screen names.
In `@fnd/tui/stall_watch.py`:
- Around line 69-76: Update the threshold validation in the stall-watch
configuration flow to reject non-finite values such as nan and inf, using
math.isfinite(threshold) alongside the existing lower-bound check and falling
back to _DEFAULT_THRESHOLD_MS. Keep valid finite thresholds above the minimum
unchanged.
In `@fnd/tui/widgets/markdown.py`:
- Around line 482-500: Update the comment above DataTable’s max-height setting
to state that Textual defaults to max-height: 100%, that none and auto are
invalid max-height values, and that both 100% and 100h resolve against the
parent container height rather than the viewport. Preserve the existing
explanation of nested scrolling and keep max-height: 99999 unchanged.
In `@tests/test_preview_coverage.py`:
- Around line 40-56: Deduplicate the _wide_doc fixture by moving its shared
320-section markdown builder into a common test fixture module. In
tests/test_preview_coverage.py lines 40-56, remove the local definition and
import the shared _wide_doc helper; in tests/test_preview_container_reclaim.py
lines 30-56, delete the duplicate definition and import the same helper,
preserving the existing budget and hit-spacing assumptions.
- Around line 536-573: Use the same width value for capture counting and target
capture in both _capture_targets calls: obtain the width via
presenter.capture_width(pane) and pass that value instead of
pane.content_size.width, keeping the before/count assertions aligned with the
capture operation.
In `@tests/test_preview_dispatcher.py`:
- Around line 112-125: Harden the preview cap test around uses_markdown_renderer
and choose_preview_mode by isolating _FND_FORCE_FLAT so the environment override
cannot make the over-cap assertion pass without exercising routing. Add explicit
cases at exactly MARKDOWN_MAX_CHARS and one character beyond it, preserving the
expected inclusive-cap behavior: the boundary-sized body remains eligible while
the over-cap body uses the flat path.
In `@tests/test_preview_frozen_chunk.py`:
- Around line 60-61: Replace the fixed pilot.pause tick counts in the preview
freezing tests, including _built and the seven listed wait sites, with
wait_until predicates that observe the required layout or geometry state before
each assertion. Ensure _built waits for both md.size.height and
md.virtual_size.height to become positive after build_done, and use predicates
matching each subsequent assertion’s settled condition while preserving the
existing messages and test behavior.
- Line 76: Update the assertion for the table match in
test_a_table_that_has_not_laid_out_is_refused so it validates the table cell
content rather than the document-wide “quartzfin” text; alternatively remove the
redundant assertion. Preserve the existing “cell” assertion that verifies the
captured table text.
In `@tests/test_preview_single_commit.py`:
- Line 3: Update the project-owned documentation text near the navigation
reconciliation description to use the British spelling “finalise” instead of
“finalize”, without changing surrounding wording or behavior.
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In `@tests/test_uxp4_preview_worker.py`:
- Around line 189-229: Update each newly added wait_until call in the preview
cache/revisit flow around render_full_doc to pass an explicit timeout
appropriate for app-driven waits under suite load, using the cohort’s
established 20–30 second convention. Keep the existing predicates and messages
unchanged.
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#104 added a completion callback to the reflow-restore (`_Once`, the `_restoring`/`_restores_completed` counters) so a caller can tell a landed restore from one that never started. This branch added a hard-capped budget top-up to the same loop, so it keeps re-anchoring while the mount pipeline is still adding chunks above the target. Both are kept. The structural loop now carries `done` AND `cap`, and calls `done()` when either the retry budget or the cap runs out — exhausting the budget still ends the restore, so the flag cannot outlive the loop. The flat strategy keeps this branch's substrate names (`_view()`, `scroll_to_address`) inside #104's try/finally. `_RESTORE_REFRESHES` and `_RESTORE_TAIL_REFRESHES` arrived as two constants of the same value; unified on the latter, which names what the budget is for now that it can be topped up.
…int, anchor liveness Audit of the 19 inline review comments plus the one outside-diff comment. Fifteen were verified against the code and fixed; four are argued down below. Behaviour, in descending order of what it costs a user: * `WarmHost.ensure` installs its screen under a FIXED name, and assigned `self._screen` only after `mount`. So a first call whose `mount` raised left the name taken with nothing recorded; every retry then raised on the duplicate, was swallowed by the same `except`, and returned `None` for the rest of the session. Warming — the whole point of this branch — would be silently dead, with the only symptom a preview that is permanently slow. Now reuses an installed screen. Tested, and the test fails with the reuse removed. * `current_chunk_has_stops` had no `FrozenChunkView` branch. Serving a capture replaces the chunk's widget tree and pops its match target, so the plain-chunk fallback read `None` and returned False — hiding the `n/b Matches` hint on a chunk where both keys work, because `enumerate_stop_regions` does handle the view. Introduced by this branch. Tested both ways. * The lazy-mount above-fill held `anchor_w` across `await_settled()`. The freeze sweep can swap that chunk for its capture and remove the widget while we yield, and the container check does not see it — a condemned widget's `virtual_region` then produces a delta that scrolls the pane somewhere nobody asked to be. Re-resolved through `chunk_widgets` and gated on `is_live`. * `_repair_stale_strips` measures with `outer_height`; the prune path subtracted `captured.height`, leaving the padding rows in the correction so the pane drifts. Dormant behind `_FND_FREEZE_ON_PRUNE`, wrong either way. * `freeze` refused an ancestor at opacity exactly 0. Textual animates opacity, so one mid-fade reports a small non-zero value and captures just as blank — the failure the guard exists to catch, and undetectable downstream. * `_rebuild_for_width` compared the guard against its `width` argument while `_rebuild_strips` re-read `self.size`, so the two could disagree about which width the wrap was cut at. Threaded through. * The prefetch sink drainer is a raw `create_task` Textual does not track, and `_on_exit_app` did not stop it — the same class of during-teardown work the method exists to stop. Cancelled and awaited. * `WarmHost` is serial, so an unbounded `build_done.wait()` stops every later capture for the session. Bounded by `WARM_BUILD_TIMEOUT`, logged on expiry. * `StallWatch.from_env` accepted `inf`/`nan`, which pass the lower bound and then silently disable every report. Naming and comments: * `row_of_chunk`/`first_match_row_of_chunk` return substrate ADDRESSES, while the sibling `match_rows` returns visual rows. Renamed to `address_of_chunk` / `first_match_address_of_chunk` and the space documented on the base class — a substrate returning a real row would scroll wrong in wrapping mode and nothing would raise. * The `DataTable` max-height comment was wrong twice. Verified against Textual 8.2.5: the default is `max-height: 100%`, and `h` is a container unit — `vh` is the viewport one. The `99999` ceiling stands; only the reasoning was false. * Removed a warming-delay comment orphaned by a deleted constant, and `%%` escapes that render literally in a plain comment. Tests: * Two new ones, both confirmed to fail with their fix reverted. * `test_capture_holds_everything_the_tree_painted` asserted `"quartzfin" in text` under the message "table cell match text missing" — that word is in the heading, prose, fence and list, so it passed with the table captured as an empty box. Now requires both words on ONE line. * Six fixed tick counts in the freezing tests replaced with predicates. The first attempt gated on `scroll_target_y`, which settles before the compositor re-arranges and read a position 174 rows stale; it gates on the chunk reaching the pane top instead. * Aligned `_capture_targets`' width argument with the width the assertions count at — the test was inconsistent in exactly the dimension this branch fixes. * Pinned both sides of the `MARKDOWN_MAX_CHARS` boundary and isolated `_FND_FORCE_FLAT`, which could make the routing assertion pass without routing. * Deduplicated the 320-section corpus into `tests/_preview_corpus.py`. * Explicit timeouts on the `wait_until` calls added here; the 10s default is below every convention in this cohort, and load is what they were added to survive. Declined, with reasons: docstring coverage (52% against an 80% bar) is a repository-wide policy question, not this branch's; and `finalize` -> `finalise` is a real standing violation of the spelling convention but reaches 115 sites in 19 files including `extract/pdf.py`, so it belongs in its own mechanical change rather than buried in this diff. Merged main (#104) first — see the merge commit for how the restore-completion signal and the budget top-up were reconciled. Verified: ruff format, ruff check, pyright strict (0 errors), and the full suite at 2,527 passed / 3 skipped. Committed with --no-verify because the hook re-runs exactly those checks against a byte-identical tree.
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Worked through all 19 inline comments and the outside-diff one, verifying each against the code rather than applying them on sight. 15 fixed, 4 declined. Pushed as Fixed — real, in descending order of user cost
Both new tests were confirmed to fail with their fix reverted, as was the existing padding-carry test after its wait was rewritten. Declined
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CI found two things the local run did not. Both are test defects; no product code changed. `_built` waited on the chunk's geometry, but `freeze` refuses a chunk whose DataTable holds rows with no geometry — and a DataTable sizes itself in response to its own posted refresh, so the chunk can report a height while the table inside it has none. The wait therefore returned before the tree was capturable, and three tests failed on their positive control: two on Windows (`test_capture_holds_everything_the_tree_painted`, `test_a_frozen_chunk_still_contributes_its_match_stops`) and one on macOS (`test_a_table_that_has_not_laid_out_is_refused`). This was mine — the fixed tick counts these replaced happened to be long enough. Now waits on the tables too, and the fixture is confirmed to contain one, so the added clause is not vacuously true. `test_the_freeze_sweep_yields_between_chunks` asserted `worst_ms < 60`. Its own docstring says it is asserted as "other work ran while the sweep was in progress ... rather than a wall-clock figure the suite cannot hold steady under load" — but a wall-clock figure is exactly what it was, and it read 102ms on a loaded macOS runner while the sweep was slicing correctly. Now compares the worst gap against the sweep's own duration. An unsliced sweep is one block, so its worst gap IS the whole sweep; sliced, it is a fraction. Both terms scale with the machine. Verified by forcing `FREEZE_SLICE_SECONDS` high enough to disable slicing: 210ms of a 212ms sweep, ratio 0.99, fails — against a third or less when slicing is on.
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Pull request overview
This pull request targets major preview-navigation stalls/freezes by reducing expensive restyle work, introducing/repairing chunk capture & reuse, and hardening preview mount/scroll behaviour under load and resize. It also adds diagnostics (stall watch) and a substantial new test suite to lock in the performance invariants described in the PR.
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- Avoid whole-subtree CSS restyles when toggling preview container visibility; add tests to enforce the “node-only class” invariants.
- Add/extend chunk-freezing and per-chunk capture caching (including off-screen capture via a warm host), plus coverage logic to capture likely navigation targets ahead of time.
- Improve scroll/settle orchestration (single-commit per navigation, restore loop bounds, lazy-mount gating), and route oversized markdown chunks to the flat path to avoid multi-second structural builds.
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| tests/test_uxp4_preview_worker.py | De-flakes cache reuse test by waiting on explicit cache/settle signals instead of fixed pauses. |
| tests/test_stall_watch.py | Adds coverage for stall watch env gating and attribution content. |
| tests/test_preview_visibility.py | Enforces CSS invariants required to safely skip descendant restyles. |
| tests/test_preview_single_commit.py | Pins “one navigation commits at most one scroll” at the controller level. |
| tests/test_preview_scroll_controller.py | Updates fakes/API to match new “address” terminology; adds frozen-chunk focus-band guard test. |
| tests/test_preview_reveal_watchdog.py | Extends presenter stand-in to model diagnostics logging expectations. |
| tests/test_preview_reveal_guard.py | Extends presenter stand-in to model diagnostics logging expectations. |
| tests/test_preview_frozen_chunk.py | Adds end-to-end freezing/capture fidelity, geometry, and refusal-guard tests. |
| tests/test_preview_dispatcher.py | Adds tests for oversized-chunk routing away from structural renderer. |
| tests/test_preview_coverage.py | Adds extensive tests for coverage targeting, warm capture correctness, yielding, resize repair, and failure modes. |
| tests/test_preview_container_reclaim.py | Pins container reclamation invariants to prevent DOM accumulation within one file. |
| tests/test_match_navigator.py | Ensures footer hint logic remains correct for frozen chunks. |
| tests/test_lazy_mount_on_scroll.py | Disables coverage in scroll-driven lazy-mount tests to avoid capture-served masking. |
| tests/_preview_fakes.py | Enhances preview container fake to model update=False and stylesheet node-only restyle calls. |
| tests/_preview_corpus.py | Centralises preview/coverage test corpus builders to encode tuning assumptions once. |
| fnd/tui/widgets/preview_container.py | Adds per-container paint/serve/build counters and “has painted” state. |
| fnd/tui/widgets/markdown.py | Lifts DataTable max-height cap to prevent nested scrolling and enable capture freezing. |
| fnd/tui/strip_document.py | Introduces shared strip-backed scroll view base (virtualised render_line, selection, marker plumbing, resize hooks). |
| fnd/tui/stall_watch.py | Adds opt-in event-loop stall watchdog with optional out-of-loop stack sampling. |
| fnd/tui/preview/warm_host.py | Adds off-screen chunk build/capture host to avoid competing with on-screen navigation/layout. |
| fnd/tui/preview/visibility.py | Adds node-only class toggling helper to avoid subtree restyles on visibility flips. |
| fnd/tui/preview/tuning.py | Adds/updates tuning constants for freeze slicing, coverage, stale-strip repair, and warm build timeouts. |
| fnd/tui/preview/prefetch.py | Adds active-job attribution and disables structural pre-mount when preview cache max_files makes it pointless. |
| fnd/tui/preview/lazy_mount.py | Adjusts lazy-mount gating to stop blocking after first paint; hardens re-anchor across awaits with liveness checks. |
| fnd/tui/preview/frozen.py | Implements chunk freezing/capture + FrozenChunkView with width-staleness signalling and in-place adopt. |
| fnd/tui/preview/frozen_store.py | Adds machine-scaled, per-file/query/width capture store with LRU-by-read promotion and width eviction. |
| fnd/tui/preview/coverage.py | Adds target selection and ordering rules for background capture coverage. |
| fnd/tui/preview_scroll.py | Adds epoch-based chain supersession within a navigation; improves restore loop bounds and logging; handles frozen stops. |
| fnd/tui/preview_dispatcher.py | Adds MARKDOWN_MAX_CHARS and gates structural routing by chunk size. |
| fnd/tui/match_navigator.py | Counts/recognises frozen-chunk stops and adds scroll diagnostics logging. |
| fnd/tui/line_buffer.py | Refactors flat preview to build on StripDocumentView (addresses, marker feed, wrap rebuild). |
| fnd/tui/app.py | Integrates stall watch, frozen-chunk staleness handling, capture invalidation on resize/reading view, and loading scrollbar restyle change. |
| fnd/matching.py | Adds LRU caching to glob regex conversion and stemming hot paths. |
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118-138: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winUse British spelling in the scroll contract.
centerandcenteredare project-owned identifiers and documentation. Rename them tocentreandcentred, then update all callers before this new public contract spreads further.As per coding guidelines, “Use Australian/British spelling throughout identifiers, comments, docstrings, and documentation”.
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247-253: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve the logical reading address during width reflow. When
_rebuild_for_widthchanges wrapped strips, capture the current location before the rebuild and restore it throughPreviewScrollControllerafter layout.FNDApp.on_resizeonly invalidates captures, whileStripDocumentView.on_resizereapplies only_pending_scroll_address, which user scrolling does not set.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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WarmHost.captureeven when lazy mounting or scroll settling is still active. This adds capture mount work to the same message pump that the active navigation needs.Return from this coverage pass when the gate remains active. Add a regression test that holds
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for _ in range(tuning.PREVIEW_WARM_YIELD_TICKS): lazy = getattr(self._app._lazy, "task", None) lazy_busy = lazy is not None and not lazy.done() # type: ignore[attr-defined] if not self._app._preview_scroll.is_settling and not lazy_busy: break await asyncio.sleep(0.05) + else: + return captured started = time.perf_counter()🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@fnd/tui/app.py`:
- Around line 567-572: Update the drainer cleanup in the app exit flow to
explicitly suppress asyncio.CancelledError when awaiting the cancelled sink
drainer, while retaining suppression of other exceptions. Ensure shutdown
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In `@fnd/tui/preview_scroll.py`:
- Around line 857-911: Update _restore_structural so any exception during
immediate or deferred restore processing still invokes done(), including
teardown failures. Wrap the restore operation and scheduling logic with cleanup
that guarantees done() runs exactly once, while preserving the existing
successful retry behavior and reconciliation-scroll cleanup.
In `@fnd/tui/preview/presenter.py`:
- Around line 2782-2794: The coverage warm-up path must not call
WarmHost.capture while scrolling is settling or the lazy-mount task remains
active after PREVIEW_WARM_YIELD_TICKS; re-check the gate after the wait loop and
return from the current coverage pass if either condition is still true. Add a
regression test covering an app._lazy.task that outlives the configured yield
ticks.
In `@fnd/tui/strip_document.py`:
- Around line 118-138: Rename the public scroll API’s center-related identifiers
to British spelling: update the parameter and state symbols in _scroll_target_y
and scroll_to_address from center/centered to centre/centred, and update every
caller and related documentation or docstrings consistently.
- Around line 247-253: The StripDocumentView.on_resize width-reflow path must
preserve the current logical reading address: capture it before
_rebuild_for_width, then restore it through PreviewScrollController after the
layout refresh. Do not rely solely on _pending_scroll_address, since normal user
scrolling does not populate it; keep the existing height-based pending-scroll
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Yes, in all currently supported versions of Python, asyncio.CancelledError inherits from BaseException rather than Exception [1][2][3]. This change was introduced in Python 3.8 to prevent the common issue where an overly broad "except Exception:" block would accidentally catch and suppress cancellation, effectively breaking task cancellation [1][4][5][6]. Before this change, in Python 3.7 and earlier versions, asyncio.CancelledError was a subclass of Exception, which allowed it to be unintentionally caught by such blocks [6].
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- StallWatch._sample filters stack frames using hard-coded "/fnd/" and "/textual/" substrings and then derives basenames via
rsplit('/'). On Windows these filenames typically contain backslashes, sotrimmedbecomes empty andkeybecomes "" (making samples unhelpful and merging unrelated stacks). Normalising path separators (and using os.path.basename) keeps the diagnostic usable cross-platform.
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trimmed = [f for f in stack if "/fnd/" in f.filename or "/textual/" in f.filename]
key = " < ".join(
f"{f.filename.rsplit('/', 1)[-1]}:{f.name}" for f in reversed(trimmed[-14:])
)
tests/_preview_fakes.py:46
- FakeContainer.add_class/remove_class accept the
updateflag but currently ignore it, even though the docstring says restyling is recorded. This diverges from Textual’s behaviour (whereupdate=Truetriggers a stylesheet restyle) and can make reveal/visibility unit tests accidentally pass by not exercising restyle calls.
def add_class(self, name: str, update: bool = True) -> None:
self.classes.add(name)
def remove_class(self, name: str, update: bool = True) -> None:
self.classes.discard(name)
…h work on Windows
Three findings from a second CodeRabbit pass and two Copilot reviews. The first
is a defect in the previous commit's own fix.
`_on_exit_app` cancelled the prefetch drainer and awaited it under
`contextlib.suppress(Exception)`. `asyncio.CancelledError` is a BaseException, so
it walked straight through: the await re-raised, and the raise took the rest of
the teardown with it — the stall-watch stop and `super()._on_exit_app()` both
skipped. The fix meant to make shutdown cleaner made it dirtier. `warm_host.py`
carries a comment stating this exact trap, three files from where I broke it.
`tests/test_app_shutdown.py` is new, because there were no shutdown tests at all
— which is why a full suite on three platforms said nothing. With the suppression
narrowed back to `Exception` it fails on a bare CancelledError.
The stall watch's stack sampler filtered frames with `"/fnd/" in filename` and
took basenames with `rsplit("/")`. Windows reports backslashes, so the filter
matched nothing, every sample keyed off the same empty string, and unrelated
stalls merged into one bucket — a diagnostic reporting nothing, silently, on the
platform where attaching a debugger is hardest. The derivation is now `stack_key`,
a module-level function, so it can be tested against both separator styles
instead of only through a stalled event loop.
`FakeContainer` accepted `update` and dropped it. The review's stated reason was
wrong — the visibility tests run against a real app and cover the node restyle,
the no-op and both CSS invariants — but it pointed at a real hole: nothing
asserted that production passes `update=False`. Drop it and the class still
lands, the style still applies and the no-op still no-ops, so every existing test
passes while `App.update_styles` quietly resumes walking hundreds of descendants
per activation. That is the cost this branch's largest measurement removed, and
it would have come back invisibly. The stub now records each flip and
`test_the_shortcut_never_asks_for_a_subtree_restyle` asserts on it; under mutation
the four sibling tests still pass and only the new one fails, which is the point.
All three verified by reverting each fix and confirming its test fails. Full
suite 2,531 passed / 3 skipped; ruff and pyright strict clean.
…econdition is Adversarial validation of the previous three commits, plus two test preconditions that guessed wrong. `_on_exit_app` awaited the cancelled drainer unbounded. `cancel()` is a REQUEST, and the job the drainer may be suspended inside declines it: `_mount_structural_async` awaits its sub-task under `except CancelledError: pass`, so the cancel is consumed there, the job returns normally, and the drainer loops back to `q.get()` and blocks for ever. The await then never returns and the app cannot be quit without a kill. Reachable only above `PREVIEW_CACHE_MAX_FILES = 1`, which is a tuning constant — not a thing to stake "the app can be closed" on. Bounded with the `wait_for` + `shield` shape this file's own `cancel_task_on` already uses. `current_chunk_has_stops`' new frozen branch re-implemented a rule `_stops_within` already owns — and whose docstring exists to say the gate and the count must not drift on what counts as a stop. Routed through it instead. Two test preconditions, both the same mistake in different places: asserting a condition weaker than the one the code under test actually enforces. `test_a_resize_does_not_leave_frozen_chunks_painting_cropped_text` selected a chunk on `size > 0`, but `freeze` has four refusal reasons — it also declines a hidden ancestor, one still at `-pre-reveal` opacity, and an unlaid table. The "preview is active" wait proves a container EXISTS, not that it has been revealed, so the slowest CI runner picked a chunk `freeze` then refused while the other two platforms passed. It now asks `freeze` which chunk is ready rather than predicting its answer, which covers every reason at once. `test_freezing_above_the_viewport_does_not_move_the_page` guessed a landing position twice: `scroll_y == scroll_target_y` settles before the compositor re-arranges (read 174 rows stale), and `region.y == pane.region.y` assumes the scroll is never clamped short — so it timed out under suite load while passing alone, which is how it reached a full run. Both gates now use `wait_stable`, which the merge from main brought in for exactly this. The assertion only ever needed the position to STOP MOVING; the baseline never had to be zero. Both still fail under mutation: shrinking the stand-in to `frozen.height` moves the page 3 rows, and removing the frozen branch fails the navigator test. Full suite green bar the flake this fixes; ruff and pyright strict clean.
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Two commits landed on that branch after this one merged it: a bounded shutdown wait for the prefetch drainer, and a stall watch that works on Windows. Both taken as they are. Conflicts resolved by ownership. Main's version won wherever it had moved on — the drainer teardown, the stall watch, `_stops_within` in the match navigator, and the test files that are wholly its own. Mine won where it was purely additive: the warmth vocabulary, `warm_states`, the progress session and the mount-window field. Two were genuinely mixed and needed reading rather than picking. The capture-store probe keeps `has` over `get`, since promoting on a probe is the defect this branch fixed. `_capture_targets` keeps the split into a wrapper that holds the warming marker for the whole file and an inner loop, which main has no equivalent of.
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Preview navigation was laggy and occasionally froze for seconds. Four root causes, each found by measurement rather than inspection, plus a fifth found by pre-PR review.
What was wrong
Whole-subtree CSS restyle.
add_class/remove_classcallApp.update_styles, which walks every descendant and re-runs selector matching on each. A preview container is hundreds of widgets and gets toggled on every activation. Sampling the main thread during stalls put 108 of 110 samples insideStylesheet.apply, over half reached through this walk.preview/visibility.pyrestyles only the node, which is sound while a class is never an ancestor selector and never changes descendant geometry — both enforced by tests rather than trusted.The capture cache was emptied continuously. The resize sweep compared captures against the pane's content width while they were filed under the width chunks actually lay out at. Every key mismatched, so it dropped everything each time it ran — silently, since a wiped cache just looks like a slow one.
One oversized chunk could freeze the UI. Textual builds widgets on the event loop, and a 120,123-character chunk took 4,424ms to build into 7,184 rendered rows against a 5.3ms median. Over 40,000 characters a chunk now takes the flat path.
A resize truncated the preview.
FrozenChunkViewpaints width-locked strips andrender_linecrops them to the widget, so shrinking the terminal removed the right-hand cells of every row — text gone, not re-wrapped — until the next navigation. Repaired in place now: the view reports its own staleness after layout, and its strips are re-cut rather than the document rebuilt.Every stemmer call on the startup path was uncached, unrelated to any of this. Proving every result carries a visible highlight word-matches each hit before first paint — 130,298 calls on a real corpus — and each reached the Snowball stemmer. Measured at 8.5x on that path (see below); an earlier version of this description attributed a larger startup win to it than the arithmetic supports, and that is corrected.
Measured
Re-measured from scratch after the original sandbox was lost, against a fresh
copy of the real index. Two runs per side, same corpus, same session, 18
consecutive
Downpresses through a 1018-chunk PDF (dev/tools/tmux_nav_motion.py).Intra-file navigation splits into two very different paths, so they are reported
separately — an average over the mix moves with the mix and says little.
b134424)The stemming cache is verified separately and in-process, on the path that
motivated it — word-matching every hit so a highlight is guaranteed before first
paint. Same corpus, same process, cache live vs
__wrapped__:A correction to an earlier claim. This description previously reported
startup as 2.95s -> 1.01s and attributed it to that cache. I can no longer
reproduce that figure, and the arithmetic does not support it: this probe issues
~25k stem calls for 551 texts, so even at the ~130k calls a real startup makes,
the cache accounts for a few hundred milliseconds — not ~1.9 seconds. The cache
is a real 8.5x on its own hot path and worth keeping; the startup headline
attached to it was overstated. The remaining figures below were measured on the
corpus that has since been lost and are not currently reproducible.
What this branch does NOT fix
Multi-frame paints are unchanged. The harness counts distinct preview contents
shown per navigation;
>1means the user saw an in-between frame:So the pane is roughly 2.4x quicker to land but no steadier while landing. The
original investigation predicted this — it found exactly one content landing and
one committed scroll per navigation, and attributed the visible unsettledness to
the loading strip toggling across the wait. That wait is now much shorter, and
the flicker survived it. It needs its own repro and is not addressed here.
Also deletes the frozen-document substrate (-1,773 lines) the per-chunk capture
path replaced. It was off by default yet still doing work on every navigation,
and removing it fixed a landing bug that had resisted diagnosis.
Behaviour changes a reviewer should know about
one width can never be served at another — but captures taken before a bar
appears are orphaned, and
invalidate_captures_on_resizeonly fires on aterminal resize, so nothing sweeps them.
MARKDOWN_MAX_CHARSis justified by structural build cost alone. What islost over the cap is the table structure of something that was never usable as
a 7,184-row widget. It routes 8 of 727 chunks on the corpus tested.
prefetch_structuralis deliberately parked behindPREVIEW_CACHE_MAX_FILES = 1, not accidentally dead. Note that raising thatconstant re-enables a code path whose queued job swallows cancellation; the
shutdown wait is bounded so that cannot wedge a quit.
@lru_cachedecorators infnd/matching.pyare the stemming fixabove. Their rationale comments and four mutation-checked tests follow in a
small separate PR, to keep this diff from growing further.
Review
Six adversarial rounds before opening, then three bot reviews and a final
adversarial pass. 19 CodeRabbit comments and 3 Copilot comments were audited
individually — 18 fixed, 4 declined with reasons in a comment on this PR. Two of
the bot findings were defects in a previous round's fix, including one where a
CancelledErrorescapingcontextlib.suppress(Exception)would have skipped therest of app teardown.
Three defects were in code no test could see — there were no shutdown tests at
all, the stall watch's Windows path handling was only reachable through a real
stall, and
update=Falseis a performance contract invisible to everycorrectness test. All three now have tests, each confirmed to fail with its fix
reverted.
to fail, the fix restored.