A picked row folds its node hues to the cursor white so the row reads as one
thing rather than as a name arguing with its own selection. On a path line that
is wrong: there the hue is not decoration on a name, it is what tells one hop
from the next — and what a route graph above the row is cross-referenced by,
its labels being a marker and one byte of hash. Chips were never folded (their
fills are outside the fold's vocabulary), so the bug was the arrow form: every
path line on the PicoCalc, and on any terminal without the powerline glyphs.
PathLine now stamps every shape it mints with PATH_INK, a style that draws
nothing; Text.append_text carries the stamp into the row as a span over the
hops, and the fold skips identity spans lying inside one. So the Message paths
row keeps each hop in the colour its graph label wears, and so do the TX
screen's "Route — via", the trophy board's walk and the feed's sender → recipient
lane. The node detail's Routes tab, which bought this by hand (no cursor base at
all), is untouched.
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Teal was still answering three questions it had no business answering. The wordmark's
colour is the app's identity, and it is also a node hue — so a cyan-keyed node could
vanish into the very highlight pointing at it.
- A node's key-derived hue folds to the cursor white on the cursor row. A row is a
column of identities right up until it is the row you are on, and then it is
answering a different question; a hue on it argues with its own selection. Folded
once at the render boundary for any Text whose *base* style is `cursor` (which is how
every list and every screen drawing its own rows already marks it), so no screen has
to remember the rule. `theme.is_identity_style` is node_style read backwards — every
hue a key can mint, on both platforms — and only those fold: the heat of an age, an
SNR reading, a red badge, a path line's chip fills all keep what they were given. So
does the grey of a node no key could place: the highlight knows where you are, not who.
- The reverse-video chip — a dialog's committing button, a running action's Abort, the
arrow-mode composer slot, the editor cursor — is grey. A chip marks where a press
lands. It is chrome, and chrome does not get a hue. Light grey slot 7 on the VT: the
one grey a reverse can put behind text there, and the fill the F-key lane already uses.
- The active sort column's heading and triangle take the same white as the cursor row,
being the same claim one axis over. They were a bare `#22d3ee`, which put a selection
cue back on the node spectrum and, on the console, straight onto the brand's own slot.
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