My Emacs configuration https://git.cjennings.net/dotemacs/atom?h=main 2026-06-05T10:28:58+00:00 2026-06-05T10:28:58+00:00 Craig Jennings c@cjennings.net 2026-06-05T10:28:58+00:00 urn:sha1:ebdf9e466b0e1f86e9b7d76650ac32408273e7a7 I swapped the terminal engine from vterm to ghostel (libghostty-vt) everywhere. term-config replaces vterm-config (the F12 terminal, the C-; x menu, tmux history capture), and ai-term replaces ai-vterm (the F9 Claude-agent launcher). ghostel renders the agent TUI without vterm's flicker under heavy streaming, and one engine now covers every terminal workflow. Two behavior changes fall out of the swap. F9 launches in a terminal frame now: ghostel renders in TTY frames, so the old GUI-only guard is gone. Terminal windows no longer dim when unfocused: ghostel resolves its palette into the native module per-terminal, so there's no per-window color hook to dim through the way vterm had. auto-dim drops its vterm color-advice path, the dashboard Terminal button launches ghostel, and the vterm and vterm-toggle packages are removed. The tmux pane-history and copy-mode machinery carried over unchanged. It keys on the pty tty, which ghostel exposes. 2026-05-09T16:03:10+00:00 Craig Jennings c@cjennings.net 2026-05-09T16:03:10+00:00 urn:sha1:26e97633c2141051dee418aff5d8993700cf39b2 Live-testing surfaced four edge-case failures in the F9 toggle geometry preservation. Each gets a dedicated regression test. - Multi-window squeeze: a captured fraction-of-frame replayed at the wrong size in 3+ window layouts because `display-buffer-in-direction` interprets float widths as fractions of the new window's parent, not the frame. In a flat 3-window layout the parent is the root, but in nested splits it's a sub-tree, and the captured fraction blew the layout up. I switched to absolute integer body-cols and body-lines as the captured unit. The unit is layout-independent. - One-col peek: a claude window captured rightmost (no right divider, body=total) replayed into a middle position (with divider, body=total-1) showed 1 col of the sibling buffer peeking through where claude should have ended. I wrap the integer size in a `(body-columns . N)` / `(body-lines . N)` cons so `display-buffer-in-direction` sets the body explicitly, divider-independent. - Position swap and compounding gap: `direction=right` in `display-buffer-in-direction` splits the selected window, not the frame edge. In multi-window layouts the new claude landed mid-frame instead of where it came from. Each toggle compounded a 1-col loss because the new position picked up a divider the original lacked. I map the cardinal direction to its frame-edge variant (`right` -> `rightmost`, `below` -> `bottom`, etc.) so claude always returns to the captured edge. - Extra window after buffer-move: buffer-move (C-M-arrows) doesn't update the claude window's `quit-restore` parameter, so `quit-window` falls through to bury rather than delete. The window stays alive showing some other buffer. Toggle-on doesn't recognize it and creates a fresh side window, landing at N+1 windows. I switched to `delete-window` with a `one-window-p` guard for the single-window-frame case. One tradeoff: in a layout where claude was deliberately in a middle position (e.g. agenda | claude | todo), the next toggle pulls it to the frame edge rather than the middle. The side-panel pattern is the design intent and the common case. 7 new regression tests covering each scenario. 80 ai-vterm tests pass. Full make test green. 2026-05-09T00:21:26+00:00 Craig Jennings c@cjennings.net 2026-05-09T00:21:26+00:00 urn:sha1:eab070e5b542f525340ee7f07ea0560944639721 F9 was a single command that always opened the project picker. Three small frustrations stacked up. With one claude buffer open and not visible, F9 was a redundant prompt to pick a project that already had a session. With claude visible, there was no way to bury it without M-x quit-window. With two projects' buffers alive, swapping between them was a buffer-switch chore. F9 is now a dispatch: - Claude visible in this frame: quit the window (toggle off) and capture the geometry first. - Exactly one claude buffer alive but hidden: re-display it (DWIM single-buffer case). - Zero or two-plus alive: fall through to the project picker. C-F9 is the always-pick-project entry point for explicit project switches. M-F9 is a buffer picker over the alive claude buffers. If a claude window is currently shown, the picked buffer replaces it in that window so the split orientation and size carry over. The shown buffer sorts last in the picker with a [shown] marker so RET picks "the other one." Split geometry persists across toggles. Two module-level vars (cj/--ai-vterm-last-direction, cj/--ai-vterm-last-size) capture at toggle-off and feed a custom display action. After M-S-t flips claude from right to bottom, F9 toggle-off-then-on returns it at the bottom. After a mouse resize, the next toggle restores that fraction. State is per-session. Restarts reset to default right/0.5. Two display-buffer fixes came out of testing: - save-window-excursion around (vterm name) keeps the dashboard from being buried on a fresh F9 at startup. vterm calls pop-to-buffer-same-window internally, which would otherwise replace the selected window's buffer before the alist could route the new one. - The action chain swaps display-buffer-use-some-window for a more specific cj/--ai-vterm-reuse-existing-claude. The generic version stole non-claude windows on C-F9 when the user was focused inside claude (claude on bottom, code on top -> new project landed in the code window). The specific version only reuses windows that already show a claude buffer. I reclaimed C-F9 from the gptel toggle in ai-config.el. C-; a t still binds gptel. I added eight new test files (claude-buffers, displayed-claude-window, dispatch, pick-buffer-candidates, window-geometry, capture-state, display-saved, reuse-existing-claude) plus a regression test on cj/--ai-vterm-show-or-create for the dashboard-preservation fix. All 73 ai-vterm tests pass and the full make test suite is green.