feat(term): replace vterm with ghostel as the terminal engine

2026-06-05T10:28:58+00:00

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.

refactor(ai-vterm): rename Claude-specific names to a generic "agent"

2026-05-11T12:18:20+00:00

I may add other terminal agents to this launcher (aider, an open-source LLM TUI), so the buffer prefix, the user knob, and the internal helpers shouldn't say "Claude". The module name (ai-vterm) and the `cj/ai-vterm-*` customs were already generic. This finishes the job: - buffer prefix `claude []` -> `agent []` (the `defconst` and the matching display-buffer-alist regex move together) - `cj/ai-vterm-claude-command` -> `cj/ai-vterm-agent-command` (the default still runs the `claude` CLI, with a docstring note on swapping it) - `cj/--ai-vterm-claude-buffers` / `-displayed-claude-window` / `-reuse-existing-claude` -> `-agent-*`, and their test files renamed to match - prose in the module commentary and docstrings, plus the matching test docstrings and buffer-name literals `vterm-config.el` hardcodes the same buffer prefix in `cj/--vterm-toggle-buffer-p` (F12 excludes agent buffers from its candidate set), so that literal moved too. Collapsing it into the shared `cj/--ai-vterm-name-prefix` is a cleanup for another day. After a reload, a project's buffer opens as `agent [foo]` instead of `claude [foo]`. Old buffers keep their names until killed. I also corrected two stale `eshell-vterm-config.el` references in ai-vterm.el docstrings (that module was split into `vterm-config.el`). Two things keep saying "Claude": the `cj/ai-vterm-agent-command` default value (the actual CLI), and the "Claude Code" example in `vterm-config.el`'s cursor-restore docstring (a concrete TUI example, not branding). 90 tests pass. `make validate-modules` clean.

dotemacs/tests/test-ai-vterm--reuse-existing-agent.el, branch main

feat(term): replace vterm with ghostel as the terminal engine

refactor(ai-vterm): rename Claude-specific names to a generic "agent"