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Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 efc02ddced The code text uses the glossary words in more places
A final pass over the docstrings and comments: "the own X of Y" is now
"Y's own X" (84 places), a navigation entry is a screen on the stack, our
node is our node, a paint is a paint, the quoted UX labels are in code
font, and a list of punctuation glyphs is in code font.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 21:45:04 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 11b5274b31 Docstrings and comments of the tests are in ASD-STE100
Each test docstring states the behaviour that the test proves, in the
simple present. No assertion message, test id, or other string literal
changed. Four statements now agree with the code: the Trace highlight
stays on the last row, a menu count, and two others.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 21:36:50 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 41c2cf416b The profile says a path, so three launches leave one profile
Verified on the Mac, and three of the four things it taught were the
opposite of what the code assumed.

RunCommandAsShell is false. Under *true* Terminal takes the whole command
string as the name of a program and the window reads "Command not found:
MESHTERM_REOPENED=1 / Could not create a new process and open a
pseudo-tty". The key's name says otherwise; the measurement wins.

The environment rides on /usr/bin/env rather than on a VAR=value prefix,
for the same reason. env is a real executable, so the line is valid as a
bare argv and as a shell command both, and the window cannot land on that
message however Terminal decides to read the string.

Terminal names an imported settings set after the FILE, not the name key
inside it -- and re-importing the same bytes reuses that profile, while
different bytes under the same filename add "MeshTerm 1", then
"MeshTerm 2". Opening one file four times, three identical and one a word
apart, left exactly two profiles. So the command cannot live in the
profile: it carries argv and the reader's MESHTERM_* variables, and a
profile per command line would fill their settings list with junk only
they can remove. The variable part moved behind a fixed path instead --
the profile says ~/.meshterm/launch.sh and never changes, and the script
underneath says whatever this launch needs.

Three launches with three different command lines now leave one profile
named MeshTerm, the window drawing CascadiaMonoPL-Regular at 13pt on
opaque black at 80x30, with the app running in it. The reader's default
profile is still theirs, blur and all.

shellExitAction 1 while here: tidy the window away on a clean exit, keep
it on a crash, because a crash nobody sees is a bug report nobody writes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 16:42:51 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 2d31810801 MeshTerm gets its own window on a Mac, and leaves yours alone
No Mac monospace face carries the Braille Patterns block, so Terminal --
which falls back generously rather than drawing a box -- borrows the
charts and the map's terrain from a proportional face and lands them at
the wrong width. Nothing announces itself as broken; it is just crooked,
and a reader with nothing to compare against never finds out why.

Fixing it means a font, and a font means a profile. The question that
shapes this module is whose terminal it is. MeshTerm's palette is the
16-colour VT set, crude on purpose, and nobody should have to read their
mail in it -- so nothing here touches the default profile or edits their
preferences. It adds a profile named MeshTerm and opens our own window in
it; theirs keeps its translucency, and quitting leaves nothing behind.

That is also the only route that works at all. Terminal rewrites its
preferences from memory when it quits, so a file written while it runs --
and MeshTerm always runs inside it -- is discarded later. Handing Terminal
a .terminal file lets Terminal do the importing.

The profile is generated from _VT_SLOTS rather than shipped, so the window
cannot disagree with the screen it holds. The NSColor and NSFont archives
are pinned to bytes read back off a profile that was installed on a real
Mac and confirmed rendering, not to a reading of the format.

relaunch.py is the half that was never Windows-specific -- own_command,
child_environment and its _PYI trap, the wanted size -- moved out of
winterminal so both terminals share one copy.

Not yet wired into startup: the launch itself wants a Mac to confirm, and
that machine is asleep.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 13:35:29 -04:00