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Adds standard shell/TUI cursor movement, insertion, and readline shortcuts to Herdr-owned text inputs, addressing the tab-name editing problem in #1803. The same editing behavior applies to workspace/pane naming, worktree branch creation, filters, and copy-mode search.

Previously, the only things that worked were adding text at the end, deleting text at the end, or deleting the whole line of text with Ctrl-U. This adds the suite of shortcuts that users expect a TUI to support when editing a line.

Shortcuts

Action Shortcuts
Move one character Left / Right, Ctrl-B / Ctrl-F
Move to beginning / end Home / End, Ctrl-A / Ctrl-E
Move one word Alt-B / Alt-F
Delete previous character Backspace, Ctrl-H
Delete next character Delete, Ctrl-D
Kill to beginning / end Ctrl-U / Ctrl-K
Kill previous word Ctrl-W, Alt-Backspace, Ctrl-Backspace
Kill next word Alt-D
Yank last killed text Ctrl-Y

Typing and paste insert at the cursor. Long values scroll horizontally, and movement/deletion respect Unicode grapheme boundaries. Killed text stays local to the current field. Alt shortcuts depend on the terminal reporting Alt/Meta.

A shared single-line editor drives all ten inputs. Shell and agent input are unchanged.

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Validation

  • 215 client-shell tests pass, including editing, Unicode, paste, focus, and rendering coverage.
  • Formatting, Clippy, and Windows cross-target lint pass.
  • Optimized build manually tested on macOS.

refs #1803

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The pull request adds a shared Unicode-aware TextEditor for shell text fields. Rename, navigator, help, worktree, and copy-mode search inputs now use it for editing and rendering. Input routing, paste targeting, mode transitions, filtering, cursor bounds, and copy-mode cursor positioning are updated. New tests cover key bindings, Unicode normalization, clipboard input, popup behavior, submission, and rendering.

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Some terminal key encodings can prevent worktree dialogs from submitting or cancelling, so this should be fixed before merge. Help search also hides its close hint.

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@markjaquith markjaquith changed the title fix: support cursor-based editing in text inputs feat: support cursor-based editing in text inputs Sep 6, 2026
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markjaquith force-pushed the rename-pane-text-navigation branch from eebe26e to 312fb45 Compare September 6, 2026 23:19
@markjaquith markjaquith changed the title feat: support cursor-based editing in text inputs feat: add cursor-based editing to text inputs Sep 6, 2026
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This PR introduces a shared, grapheme-aware single-line editor and integrates it with Herdr-owned naming, filtering, worktree, help, and copy-search inputs.

  • Adds cursor movement, insertion, deletion, word operations, kill/yank behavior, and horizontal scrolling.
  • Routes keyboard, generated text, paste, and clipboard input through the shared editor while preserving field-specific controls.
  • Updates overlay and mode-bar rendering to display the editor viewport and cursor safely.
  • Adds broad tests covering all ten fields, Unicode input, event routing, resizing, rendering, and submission behavior.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; no actionable correctness, security, or repository-rule violations were identified.

The shared editor preserves grapheme boundaries, clips cursor rendering, routes input according to active-field state, and keeps worktree-derived state synchronized, with comprehensive tests covering the affected fields and interactions.

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Filename Overview
src/client/shell/text_editor.rs Implements the shared grapheme-aware editor, readline-style bindings, single-line normalization, kill/yank state, and clipped viewport rendering.
src/client/shell/overlay_input.rs Integrates the editor with rename, navigator, and help inputs while retaining overlay-specific navigation and submission behavior.
src/client/shell/worktrees.rs Integrates worktree branch and filter editing and synchronizes dependent path and selection state after content changes.
src/client/shell/copy_mode.rs Routes copy-search editing and paste through the shared editor while preserving search submission and cancellation.
src/client/shell/render.rs Renders horizontally scrolling copy-search text and its cursor within the available mode-bar width.
src/client/shell/overlays.rs Updates rename, navigator, and help overlays to render editor-controlled viewports and cursors.
src/client/shell/tests/text_editing.rs Adds comprehensive cross-field coverage for editing commands, Unicode boundaries, paste routing, rendering, resizing, and submission semantics.
Cargo.toml Adds unicode-segmentation as a direct dependency for grapheme-boundary operations.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
    A[Terminal key, text, or paste] --> B[Shell input routing]
    B --> C{Active Herdr text field}
    C -->|Naming overlay| D[Rename editor]
    C -->|Navigator/help filter| E[Filter editor]
    C -->|Worktree create/open| F[Worktree editor]
    C -->|Copy search| G[Search editor]
    D --> H[Shared TextEditor]
    E --> H
    F --> H
    G --> H
    H --> I[Grapheme-aware edit state]
    I --> J[Viewport and cursor rendering]
    I --> K[Field-specific synchronization or submission]
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In `@src/client/shell/overlays.rs`:
- Line 1042: Update the focused help editor rendering in the h.search_focused
path to cap its rectangle’s exclusive right edge at close.x, including when
h.query is empty, so text_editor::render cannot overwrite the close-button
cells. Preserve the existing vertical position and left edge while applying the
bound around the Rect construction.

In `@src/client/shell/text_editor.rs`:
- Around line 178-183: Update route_worktree_overlay_key so Enter and Esc are
handled before the generated_text insertion block, allowing their submit and
cancel actions to run even when associated text is present. Preserve
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