diff --git a/meshterm/ui/node_detail_screen.py b/meshterm/ui/node_detail_screen.py
index c2e411f..13cb7d3 100644
--- a/meshterm/ui/node_detail_screen.py
+++ b/meshterm/ui/node_detail_screen.py
@@ -389,10 +389,10 @@ class NodeDetailScreen(Screen):
         to learn it. It names the tab it would take you *to*, never the one you are on —
         the strip already marks that, and a chip repeating it would say nothing about what
         pressing it does. (A per-tab chip on F1/F2 was tried and reverted — JP, 2026-08-09:
-        the toggle was better.) Unlike the Time Machine's window chip, this one carries no
-        ``▸`` lead-in: ``Routes`` is exactly six cells on its own, and the strip beside it
-        makes the direction plain anyway. A page with one tab has nothing to switch, so
-        the slot stays empty.
+        the toggle was better.) Like every cycling chip, it is the target's name alone,
+        with no lead-in: ``Routes`` is exactly six cells, and the strip beside it makes the
+        direction plain anyway. A page with one tab has nothing to switch, so the slot
+        stays empty.
 
         The pager gates on the route list actually being windowed: on the Info tab, and on
         a node whose routes all fit, the keys move nothing.
diff --git a/meshterm/ui/scopering.py b/meshterm/ui/scopering.py
index a2f39ce..e3bd88d 100644
--- a/meshterm/ui/scopering.py
+++ b/meshterm/ui/scopering.py
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ def scope_atom(key: ScopeKey, *, bare: bool = False) -> str:
 
 
 def scope_chip(key: ScopeKey | None) -> str:
-    """The F-lane chip naming the view a press goes *to*, within the lane's 6 cells."""
+    """The F-lane chip naming the view a press goes *to*: the word alone, in all 6 cells.
+
+    No ``▸`` lead-in (JP, 2026-10-04): it took two of the chip's six cells to say what the
+    chip's place on the lane already says, and cut a region's name to four.
+    """
     word = "all" if key is None else key[-1]
-    return "▸ " + fit_cells(word, 4).rstrip()
+    return fit_cells(word, 6).rstrip()
diff --git a/meshterm/ui/timemachine_screen.py b/meshterm/ui/timemachine_screen.py
index 37e0557..e50f4e4 100644
--- a/meshterm/ui/timemachine_screen.py
+++ b/meshterm/ui/timemachine_screen.py
@@ -250,15 +250,16 @@ class TimeMachineScreen(Screen):
 
         The chip names the span it would *take you to*, not the one on screen: the title
         already says where you are, so a chip repeating it would be the same claim twice
-        and would never tell you what pressing it does. ``all time`` shortens to ``all``
-        to stay inside the 6-cell chip — the only span whose name doesn't already fit,
-        and one this platform's ring may not even offer (see :func:`_bind_windows`).
+        and would never tell you what pressing it does. It is the span alone, with no
+        ``▸`` lead-in (JP, 2026-10-04), so it has all six cells: ``all time`` still
+        shortens to ``all`` — the only span whose name doesn't fit, and one this platform's
+        ring may not even offer (see :func:`_bind_windows`).
         """
         from .tui.fkeys import FPair, default_lane
 
         lane = list(default_lane(nav=self.content_overflows))
         nxt, _delta = _WINDOWS[(self._window_index + 1) % len(_WINDOWS)]
-        lane[2] = FPair(f"▸ {'all' if nxt == 'all time' else nxt}", "window")
+        lane[2] = FPair("all" if nxt == "all time" else nxt, "window")
         # The scope cycle beside it, on the same terms: the chip names where a press goes.
         views = self._ring()
         if len(views) > 1:
diff --git a/tests/test_timemachine.py b/tests/test_timemachine.py
index 032371c..7b98a10 100644
--- a/tests/test_timemachine.py
+++ b/tests/test_timemachine.py
@@ -975,10 +975,10 @@ def test_screen_cycles_windows_and_caches(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     # The F-key chip is the same behaviour under another name — the only way a platform
     # that draws no hint line can learn that `w` exists at all. It names the span it takes
     # you *to*, since the title already says where you are.
-    assert screen.fkey_lane[2].label == "▸ all"
+    assert screen.fkey_lane[2].label == "all"
     screen.handle("window")
     assert "all time" in screen.title
-    assert screen.fkey_lane[2].label == "▸ 24 h"  # the ring wraps back around
+    assert screen.fkey_lane[2].label == "24 h"  # the ring wraps back around
 
 
 def test_picocalc_window_ring_stops_at_30_days() -> None:
@@ -996,7 +996,7 @@ def test_picocalc_window_ring_stops_at_30_days() -> None:
     assert "7 d" in screen.title  # opens on 7 d, as everywhere
     screen.handle("text", "w")
     assert "30 d" in screen.title
-    assert screen.fkey_lane[2].label == "▸ 24 h"  # never "▸ all" on this ring
+    assert screen.fkey_lane[2].label == "24 h"  # never "all" on this ring
     screen.handle("window")
     assert "24 h" in screen.title  # wrapped straight past where all time would sit
 
@@ -1312,6 +1312,20 @@ def test_s_cycles_the_mesh_pages_scope_and_retitles_it(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     assert screen.short_title == "the whole mesh · 7 d · unscoped"
 
 
+def test_the_scope_chip_is_the_word_alone_in_all_six_cells() -> None:
+    """No ``▸`` lead-in: the view a press goes to gets the chip's whole six cells."""
+    from rich.cells import cell_len
+
+    from meshterm.ui.scopering import scope_chip
+
+    assert scope_chip(None) == "all"
+    assert scope_chip(("region", "yul")) == "yul"
+    assert scope_chip(("region", "harbor")) == "harbor"  # whole, where it read "▸ har…"
+    for key in (("unscoped",), ("unknown",), ("region", "lakeshore")):
+        chip = scope_chip(key)
+        assert cell_len(chip) == 6 and chip.endswith("…") and "▸" not in chip
+
+
 def test_a_page_with_no_scope_offers_no_cycle() -> None:
     """A node's page is its adverts, which carry no scope: no hint, no chip, no cycle."""
     screen = TimeMachineScreen(