A board of records is a list of routes, and the routes were the part with no room
left. Every row spent thirty-odd cells before the first hop — `#1 Jul 12 14:30`,
a score padded to a fixed twelve — and then opened the walk by naming our own node
in full, `Homestead (cc)`, twice, on every row, on a screen where every record
starts and ends on us by construction.
So the rows draw on THE path widget with both ends bare: the app-wide ★, which the
graph on the record card already plants on us and its legend already reads back as
"you". The stars keep the `you` white — path_line's fade means "not yours to
compose", and nothing on a board of walks already made is being composed, which is
what `dim_self` now says. The lanes in front are held to what they actually say:
the day the record was set (the card carries the time), and a score lane fitted to
the widest score on *that* board rather than to the worst case everywhere.
The record card was carrying the same kind of slack. Its route ran under a `route`
label lane, hanging in the twelve cells left over — under a graph captioned
"you → … → you", where the line can only be the route. It now runs unlabelled
across the whole card, wrapping at hop boundaries, on the same widget as the rows,
with the same ★ at both ends.
And the card was three rows taller than its content. The route graph took the
shared widget's five-row floor, which reserves room for a fan of alternatives; one
walk is one lane and never fans, so it draws in three — and both stacked blocks now
hand back the rows nothing landed on. The area drawing keeps two rows in hand for a
tall shape, and a walk that comes out flat never reaches them: that, plus the
graph's unused label row, is where the three blank lines under `round trip` came
from. Trimming happens after the drawing, so nothing placed is ever lost.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
"Atlas" named a book of maps — a thing you leaf through — and this screen has
never been that. It holds one node in focus, fans its neighbourhood, and moves
when you press Enter. The trail across the top is a walk, the list heading says
Enter walks, the tests call the helper walk_to. Only the name disagreed.
So the name goes: the tool is `walk` / "Mesh walk", the screen is WalkScreen in
ui/walk_screen.py behind open_walk, and every prose mention follows — the
README feature table, the node-vs-contact boundary in CLAUDE.md, the
windowed-list pattern note that cites this screen as its origin, pathline's
separator example, topology's whole-graph view and its prefix-coalescing
rationale, and the purge-test-data skill that warns about fake nodes showing up
here.
No behaviour moves. The tool keeps its 🌐 icon, its Mesh category and its
order beside Map — the logical shape next to the geographic one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The breadcrumb across the top was hand-rolling its own hop sequence — its own
separator loop, its own width arithmetic, its own head-dropping. A walk *is* a
path, so it now renders through PathLine like every other hop sequence in the
app: powerline chips wherever the terminal draws them, the trail's own › arrows
where it can't, each hop in its node's key-derived hue.
It stays one line — no wrap, no scroll. When the walk outgrows the width the fit
eats into its head rather than a route's usual tail, and what survives snaps
flush to the right edge, so the focus and the steps that just led to it are the
ones always in view.
PathLine.ellipsized grew the parameter that makes that possible: `elide` names
the side the ⋯ eats into. ELIDE_TAIL (the default, unchanged behaviour) anchors
on the head and rescues the destination off the far end, so both endpoints of a
route survive; ELIDE_HEAD anchors on the tail and spares the origin nothing.
Along the way the trail stops losing its colour: the old focus emphasis built
"bold you" / "bold muted" style strings, which Rich can't parse and silently
renders as no style at all — so our own node at the root of the walk was drawing
plain instead of white. Identity styling now comes from the hops themselves.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The composer's insertion point was a reverse-video arrow living between two
hops, which forced the whole preview back to plain arrows — chips fuse the seam
it needed to sit in — and made a wrapped route carry the cursor by hand, riding
a line's trailing cue when the break landed on it.
An insertion point is a position in the route, so it is now a hop of its own: a
`+` slot in the brand accent (the same colour the row cursor below it wears),
spliced in by `path_line(cursor=…)`. It measures, wraps, and colours like every
other hop, so the preview keeps whichever mode the terminal earned and can never
strand its cursor on a fold. `cursor_arrow` goes with it, out of both `PathLine`
and `path_text`.
Message paths: the arrival rows draw through the path line too — chips in each
node's hue, names alone, no hash repeated after one. The hash bytes are the
graph's job one row up, and the shared node hue ties the two together without
spelling the hex twice. The graph loses the blank line above it; its canvas
already opens with air over the topmost lane.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The gap between chips was one-sided: the previous chip tapered out to a
point onto the page, but the next one started on a flat edge. Both faces
now angle the way the path flows — the seam is two cells, a taper out and
the same point notched back inward out of the next chip's fill, with a
sliver of bare page between them. It is the notch a wrapped line already
opened on, so a fold now looks exactly like the seam it interrupted.
The composer's suggestion list could show one node twice. The evidence
graph keeps a hop hash it can't pin down as its own vertex — a 1-byte "3d"
matching two contacts stays "3d", apart from the "3d63c6429436" its wider
sightings landed on — and it is right not to guess; but once the name
resolver names them, they are one row drawn twice. They now fold onto the
longer id with their readings pooled, so the row's sample count and median
SNR describe the whole node. Merging takes both a shared name and a shared
prefix, so two unnamed hashes never fold and neither do two same-named
nodes on unrelated keys.
Folding the stub away must not fold its links away with it, so a step off
the merged node gathers from every id it reads as — otherwise merging would
quietly cost the composer whatever was only ever heard under the stub. Name
lookup and that alias walk are both memoized: they now run over the graph
on the way to each repaint, and neither the topology nor the resolver moves
while a composer is open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The trace surfaces' route lanes were spending their width on hex nobody
reads there: every name carried the hash it is addressed by, and the wire
spec one lane below already spells that out verbatim, at the width it goes
on the air. The route lane, the planned-route preview and the composer's
live preview now name nodes and nothing else; an unnamed hop still reads as
its hash, since that is the only identity it has.
The composer's preview becomes that same lane rather than its own dialect —
pathline chips, hop-boundary wrapping, our two ends the bare star.
Both stars fade. Setting out from us and landing back on us are fixtures of
every such route, no more composed (or removable) than a mirrored return
leg, so they wear the automatic grey — dark slate as a chip, never the loud
you white. Finding the turn a wrapped route folds at now reads the faded
*tail* rather than the first faded hop, which the leading star had become.
Chips are separated, not interlocked: every seam draws its point with no
background, so the page shows through the taper and a route reads as a row
of blocks the way oh-my-posh spaces its segments. Two neighbours landing on
one fill can no longer fuse, without that being a special case.
Finally, two places that had the right information and didn't use it: the
composer's suggestion list fell back to bare hex for a short hop matching
several contacts (the topology won't guess, so it names nothing), and the
not-a-trail confirm printed whole 12-hex ids. Both now go through the
owning screen's own resolver and its chosen path-hash width, so a node
reads the same in the dialog as in the window behind it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A folded route hung flush under the value column, so a two-line route and
two stacked values looked alike at a glance. Continuations now step in
WRAP_OFFSET columns past the indent; the packer charges for the step, so
every line still fits its width. The continuation marks — the trailing
arrow, the notched chip edge — still say it in detail; the step says it
from the block's shape alone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
bare_self now stands our node on the app-wide ★ rather than stripping it
to nothing, so both ends of a route are marked, not merely implied. The
star we set out from wears the you white; the one we land back on fades,
because coming home closes every route automatically — nobody composed
that leg, same reasoning that dims a mirrored return. A lone faded tail
no longer counts as the route's turn, so a walked boomerang still folds
at its own middle.
The wrapped line's opening cap carried the previous chip's colour into
the new line. It now draws the point in the line's own fill under reverse
video, which paints the notch in the terminal's own background — the only
way to name the page's colour without knowing it — so the carry-on mark
holds no trace of the chip above.
And the extended powerline block finally earns its detection: where the
font is a full Nerd Font patch (powerline_full), a path's two outer ends
round off into a lozenge. Core-only terminals square the opening and
point the close exactly as before, so nobody sees tofu.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A wrapped line was opening on U+E0B2, which points backwards — it read as
an arrow going the wrong way, not as a carry-on. It now reopens the seam
the break interrupted: the same right-facing point, arriving out of the
previous line's last fill into this line's first chip. U+E0B0 is once
again the only glyph the widget draws; what varies is whether the point
lands on a field (a seam) or on the page (a closing edge), which is also
the same-fill gap rule, now factored into _seam().
A bare hop keeps the one-cell padding every chip wears — it has no words
between them, not no chip — so our end of a route reads as a stub of the
you white rather than as nothing at all.
Explore's candidate paths go bare too: every candidate starts from us, so
the word was the same on every row and the cells are the candidates'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An interlocked seam is the point in the previous chip's fill drawn on the
next one's — invisible when the two fills match, so a hue collision, a run
of dimmed hops, or two keyless greys read as one fused block instead of
two nodes. Those seams now draw over the page instead, leaving the sliver
of background that says where one chip ends and the next begins.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A hop with no label now draws as its seam alone — the arrow, no chip, no
word. The trace screens' route lane uses it (bare_self) for both ends of
every walk: a trace leaves us and comes back to us, so naming ourselves
twice only pushed the hops that *are* news out of the lane. Arrow mode
drops the padding the vacated label sat in ("→ 3d → f2 →"); chip mode
lets the seam point into the page.
Wrapped chip lines now open on the female point (U+E0B2, core set) from
the second line down, so a continuation reads as one — only the very
first chip of a path keeps its square left edge. The packer pays for that
cell, so lines still fit their column.
Also carries the round already sitting in the tree: the wrap evens hops
across the fewest lines it can take and folds at the route's turn, the
trace/node-detail/select surfaces route their rows through the widget.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
path_line() builds a PathLine from path_text's exact vocabulary (verified
character-for-character in tests), wrapped() carries the composer's
insertion cursor — riding the trailing arrow when its seam is the line
break — and conftest pins MESHTERM_POWERLINE=0 so screen assertions never
depend on which terminal runs the suite.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PathLine renders PathHop sequences three ways (full line, middle-elided to
a width, hop-boundary wrap under a hanging indent) in two looks: the
app-wide muted-arrow presentation, or interlocking powerline chips filled
with each node's key hue when the terminal can draw U+E0B0 (auto mode asks
termfont). Same words in both modes; call sites migrate separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
