A machine with a debug probe, a programmer and a USB adapter soldered
into it shows all three on every start, in front of the one radio the
user actually came for. h drops the highlighted device from the list
and remembers it in the device registry; ⇧H brings every hidden one
back. Both keys are named in the footer only where they would act -
h on a device row, ⇧H only while something is hidden - which is the
rule Del remove already followed.
Hiding is a listing choice and nothing else: a hidden device is still
remembered, still resolvable by --port, and shows itself again the
moment it is connected to. A row that is simply gone would let the
list misrepresent the machine, so a muted line says how many are
hidden and which key returns them - and that line is also where ⇧H
survives on a console whose splash border is 47 cells.
The mechanics are shared rather than local: a non-filterable list can
declare bare-key shortcuts (a filtering one cannot - every letter
there belongs to the query) and name them per highlighted row, and a
chromeless splash whose hint outgrows its box now drops atoms in front
of Esc rather than being cut off at the end, where Esc is.
Two things the narrow console showed while this was being fitted: the
splash header was a hand-built string that wrapped at 53 columns, and
the DEVICE lane sized itself to the longest name - which for a USB
adapter is its forty-character product string, pushing HARDWARE off
the edge entirely. The header goes through column_header, and the name
lane now yields to keep HARDWARE on screen. What is left of a long
model string scrolls: ←→ read the highlighted row's tail to its end,
with the lanes in front of it pinned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5
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