feat(web): find in diffs with Cmd+F

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Problem

Cmd+F did nothing in the Diff panel or a pull request's Code tab. Both render through Pierre's virtualized CodeView, so the browser's find only saw rows already on screen, and the desktop app binds no find at all. The File view does have find, but only because it attaches Pierre's editor, which brings its own search panel.

Change

A find panel for CodeView, patched into @pierre/diffs 1.5.2 (patches/@pierre%2Fdiffs@1.5.2.patch, on top of the patch main already carries). It's a CodeView feature rather than our own UI. Upstream is building the same thing in pierrecomputer/pierre#833 (draft). That PR searches the same line data and drives the same SearchPanelWidget, so this patch can be dropped once it ships. This patch was written independently; the one thing taken from #833 is ignoring keys with keyCode 229 while an input method is composing. #833 skips folded files, which T3 folds by default, so this patch searches them too.

• Cmd+F inside a diff opens the same search bar the File view uses: match case, whole word, regex, "N of M", next/previous.
• It searches every diff item's line data rather than the rendered rows. That covers removed lines, files that are folded, unchanged context hidden between hunks, and rows that haven't been scrolled into view.
• Moving to a match reveals it:
  • A match in folded context expands that context.
  • A match in a folded file asks the host to unfold it through a new onRevealSearchMatch(item) callback, because which files are folded is our state, not Pierre's.
• Matches are painted with the CSS Custom Highlight API. Ranges are rebuilt for whichever rows each render pass mounts, so the rendered DOM and Pierre's caches are never touched.
• Enter / Shift+Enter and Cmd+G / Shift+Cmd+G move between matches. Escape closes the panel and returns focus to the diff.
• There is no replace mode, since a diff can't be edited. SearchPanelWidget gets an allowReplace option for this.

App side:

• The Diff panel and the PR Code tab unfold a file when a match lands in it.
• The panel picks up the app's theme colours.
• Shortcut guards now look inside shadow roots. Before this, letters typed into the panel's input could open right-panel surfaces, and Cmd+Z could undo the last thread action. isEditableFocused and the launcher's typing check now follow focus into open shadow roots.
• Documented in docs/user/keybindings.md.

Scope and approval

This is maintainer work. Requested so Sebastian can search inside diffs. It doesn't change any contract, server code, or mobile code. Mobile uses a separate diff renderer.

Verification

Re-checked on the latest head, e5f0384, in the real app. I used an isolated dev server on a seeded copy of real data, driven through the T3 Browser panel, on this branch's own 12-file diff with every file folded.

Cmd+F opens find with focus in the input	A match in a folded file unfolds it

Opening find partway down a file starts at the match on screen	In a 208px-tall diff, the match lands below the panel

• Escape closed find, cleared every highlight, and left focus in the diff.
• 4e5cee3 adds the input-method check. In the harness, Cmd+F with keyCode 229 no longer opens find, and a normal Cmd+F still does.
• b5071c4: a query typed before the panel's first frame keeps its highlights, and Enter moves to "2 of 3". Before the fix, the highlights were wiped and Enter didn't scroll. Clearing the query, a query with no matches, and opening without typing still end at "No results". Checked in the harness.
• fbafadd: with focus on the Match Case button, Cmd+G moves to the next match, Cmd+F returns focus to the input, and Escape closes the panel. Cmd+G in the input still moves exactly once. Checked in the harness.
• In the short viewport, the panel spans y≈136–168 and the current match y=239–254.

The two fixes for a panel closed straight after opening and for a viewer reset (ba67aed) were checked in the standalone harness, since the app can't trigger them on demand:

• Opening and closing find in one frame left a folded file folded, the scroll at 0, and nothing highlighted.
• A search at "1 of 3" showed "No results" after reset().

Earlier checks, from before the bot fixes. The first was after the rebase onto Pierre 1.5.2; the rest were on Pierre 1.3.0-beta.10.

Re-checked after rebasing onto main with Pierre 1.5.2 (#16644), in the real app on this branch's own diff. Cmd+F opened find; the first match was in a folded file, which unfolded and scrolled into view; Enter stepped through matches across six folded files; Escape cleared the highlights and returned focus to the diff.

Tested in the real app: an isolated dev server on a seeded copy of real data, driven through the T3 Browser panel. Viewport and diff content are the same in both shots.

Before (main): Cmd+F in the diff does nothing	After: Cmd+F opens find; matches highlighted across files

In the app:

• Cmd+F opened the panel with focus in the input.
• Typed text went into the panel, not the composer or the launcher shortcuts.
• Enter moved to the next file's match and scrolled it into view.
• Escape cleared the highlights and returned focus to the diff.

I also tested the patched CodeView on its own in headless Chromium with a generated 30-file diff:

A match in a folded file unfolds it	A match in folded context expands it	Split view

On the same test page:

• Next/previous and Cmd+G stepped through all 180 matches.
• Highlights repainted as rows mounted while scrolling.
• A second Cmd+F refocused the panel and selected the query.
• Cmd+Alt+F stayed in find mode.

Focused tests:

• codeViewSearch.test.ts covers the shipped match collection: removed/added/context lines, folded files, and the case / whole-word / regex toggles.
• editableFocus.test.ts is a regression test for focus inside a shadow root. It fails on main's helper.
• These two pass along with the existing diff, file-editor, right-panel and PR panel suites: 113 tests.
• Web typecheck is clean. Lint has no new warnings on the changed lines.

Limits:

• Find opens only when focus is inside the diff, the same rule as the File view. This keeps Cmd+F from overriding the PR list's own search. Clicking a blank part of the panel doesn't focus the diff, so click on code first.
• When a working-tree diff is over 120 KB, the panel loads files lazily and find searches only the files loaded so far.
• I didn't verify on desktop (Electron) or mobile. Mobile isn't affected.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This introduces a new Cmd+F diff-search workflow and a substantial shared @pierre/diffs runtime patch covering search, highlighting, virtualization, scrolling, and folded-file reveal behavior. The cross-cutting production impact is broader than a small isolated UI change, so human review is appropriate.

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Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	−17 B (−1.4%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+24 B (+0.5%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+24 B (+2.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	+41 B (+0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	2	+1 (+100.0%)	8	✅

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Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Diff search finds and highlights matches across diff files, including folded files and virtualized rows. Match navigation can request that the host unfold a file. The changes also update virtualized layout handling and editable-focus detection for open shadow roots.

Changes

Diff search and focus handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Search controls and match collection patches/@pierre%2Fdiffs@1.5.2.patch, apps/web/src/components/diffs/codeViewSearch.test.ts, apps/web/src/index.css, docs/user/keybindings.md	CodeView adds diff search, match navigation, and highlights, with refreshes as diff items change. Search supports regex, case sensitivity, and whole-word matching. Tests cover match collection, and styles and keybinding documentation describe the search controls.
Virtualized diff layout updates patches/@pierre%2Fdiffs@1.5.2.patch	Virtualized file layout updates can reset cached row heights from a specified line. Width changes and resize notifications trigger layout reconciliation.
Search match reveal and support apps/web/src/components/diffs/AnnotatableCodeView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/DiffPanel.tsx, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestCodeTab.tsx, patches/@pierre%2Fdiffs@1.5.2.patch	AnnotatableCodeView forwards matched item IDs to reveal callbacks. DiffPanel and the pull request Code tab unfold the matching file.
Shadow-root editable focus detection apps/web/src/lib/editableFocus.ts, apps/web/src/lib/editableFocus.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.tsx	Editable-focus detection follows focused elements through open shadow roots. The shortcut handler checks the composed-path target before falling back to event.target.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant CodeView
  participant CodeViewSearch
  participant DiffPanel
  User->>CodeView: Open search and navigate to a match
  CodeView->>CodeViewSearch: Find matches in diff items
  CodeViewSearch->>DiffPanel: Request reveal for a folded item
  DiffPanel->>CodeView: Update folded item state
  CodeView->>User: Highlight and scroll to the match

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Find now starts near the visible diff content, and the inspected layout change does not retain stale heights at the line-count boundary. No identified issue remains that should block merging.

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🟡 Minor · Select the first match at or below the visible line. · @pierre%2Fdiffs@1.5.2.patch:515-518

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Select the first match at or below the visible line.

When the viewport is partway through a long file, #firstMatchFromViewport() selects the first match in that file, even if the match is far above the viewport. Opening find then moves the reader backward instead of starting near the visible content. Use the visible line position as well as the item index when choosing the initial match.

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@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff finding on #firstMatchFromViewport (review 5446935771): fixed in e5f0384. The initial match is now the first one at or below the top of the viewport, using the line's position inside the first visible file, not just the file index. It still wraps to the first match when every match is above. Checked in a harness: with line 201 of a file at the top, find opens on its line-202 match (3 of 6) instead of the file's first match (1 of 6).

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