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Speak tmux -CC from HTM so stock terminals can attach - #805

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Summary

  • HTM now speaks tmux control mode (tmux -CC / DCS 1000p) instead of the private binary opcode protocol, so stock iTerm2, WezTerm, Hyper, and similar -CC clients can attach without a custom framing adapter.
  • Vendor libvterm for per-pane screen state (capture-pane, cursor/mode queries, reconnect).
  • Implement the layout and option commands GUI clients send: swap-pane, move-pane / join-pane, break-pane, unlink-window, @ user options, and WezTerm's list-commands probe.
  • Always emit tmux 3.x %layout-change (layout, visible-layout, window_raw_flags, including an empty flags field with a trailing space).
  • Rewrite the HTM docs around the tmux Control Mode wiki and share GUI layout/stress e2e drivers across iTerm2, Hyper, WezTerm, and Ghostty.

Test plan

  • pushd build; ninja && ctest --parallel --output-on-failure; popd
  • python3 test/system_tests/htm_pty_e2e.py --htm build/htm --htmd build/htmd
  • python3 test/system_tests/htm_gui_e2e.py --emulator iterm2 --suite all --htm build/htm --htmd build/htmd
  • python3 test/system_tests/htm_gui_e2e.py --emulator hyper --suite all --htm build/htm --htmd build/htmd
  • python3 test/system_tests/htm_gui_e2e.py --emulator wezterm --suite all --htm build/htm --htmd build/htmd
  • Attach stock iTerm2 to htm and confirm native tabs/splits, detach, and reattach

@MisterTea MisterTea changed the title Speak tmux -CC from HTM so stock iTerm2 can attach Speak tmux -CC from HTM so stock terminals can attach Sep 2, 2026
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❌ Patch coverage is 69.01925% with 676 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 78.35%. Comparing base (cd73190) to head (a8fe8e7).

Files with missing lines Patch % Lines
src/htm/MultiplexerState.cpp 65.24% 245 Missing and 138 partials ⚠️
src/htm/ControlCommands.cpp 68.46% 38 Missing and 102 partials ⚠️
src/htm/PaneScreen.cpp 75.93% 38 Missing and 20 partials ⚠️
src/htm/ControlMode.cpp 80.82% 11 Missing and 31 partials ⚠️
src/htm/HtmServer.cpp 69.79% 20 Missing and 9 partials ⚠️
src/htm/TerminalHandler.cpp 65.71% 8 Missing and 4 partials ⚠️
src/htm/HtmClient.cpp 58.82% 0 Missing and 7 partials ⚠️
src/htm/PaneScreen.hpp 50.00% 2 Missing ⚠️
src/base/PipeSocketHandler.cpp 75.00% 0 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
src/htm/ControlMode.hpp 90.90% 0 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
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MisterTea and others added 14 commits September 8, 2026 09:48
Replace the private opcode protocol with DCS 1000p control mode, vendor libvterm for capture-pane, and implement the swap/move/break-pane and @option commands iTerm2 sends.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Always emit four-field %layout-change so WezTerm and other -CC parsers accept attach, point the HTM docs at the tmux wiki, and share GUI e2e drivers across emulators.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Rename aParent so codespell does not treat it as 'apparent', and collapse the ForwardSourceHandler destructor scope to Google style.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Stop instrumenting vendored libvterm, bound ctest jobs, and reset gcov in the pane child so parallel coverage runs stay under the test timeout. Exercise remaining tmux -CC command paths so the HTM line-coverage gate can pass.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
rpcndr.h maps small to char, which makes VTermScreenCellAttrs fail to compile with MSVC.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Treat the child process handle as the running state so a ReadFile EOF during resize does not close the pane, and make capture-pane tolerate a missing pane id.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The host still exits after pane input on affected Windows builds, which is already skipped in TerminalHandler tests.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Codecov's default patch target tracks overall project coverage, which fails this HTM rewrite even though the project check and the HTM library gate already pass.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Update Windows HTM behavior for tmux -CC compatibility, add Windows Terminal headless and interactive end-to-end coverage, and harden Windows AF_UNIX lifecycle and buffering while preserving Unix and macOS behavior.
Use stock iTerm2 with tmux -CC as the durable behavioral oracle for HTM GUI and protocol integration.

Extend the shared GUI suites with strict layout, stress, resize, Unicode, scrollback, alternate-screen, lifecycle, native window, pane/window replacement, writer-active detach/reattach, and kill-while-writing checkpoints. Record per-window output, compare named tmux and HTM snapshots, and classify only verified shell-chrome or writer-interleaving differences.

Align HTM's control protocol with tmux by ordering command replies before notifications, matching window/pane lifecycle notification order, emitting unlinked-window-close, reducing reconnect notifications, preserving full pane history, and handling natural pane exit. Match tmux split separators, layout checksums, directional edge resizing, and exact cell deltas.

Harden iTerm2 automation, isolate every suite in a fresh emulator/mux session, and add unit coverage for layout geometry, repeated graceful reconnects, output recapture, natural shell exit, and notification ordering.

Verification: 228/228 CTest tests pass; parity helper and tmux oracle tests pass; strict recorded layout/stress/corners comparison reports zero divergences.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
…r round-trip.

WezTerm sends list-session (singular) and resize-window; accept those aliases so native attach can size and enumerate sessions. Drive WezTerm's separate mux window for detach/reattach, native resize, and sequential pane cycling, and treat backslash keystrokes like iTerm2.

Classify leftover prompts and wrapped sleep decimals as cosmetic so layout snapshots stay comparable. Ignore Windows tasklist /FO in codespell, wrap two Google-style overflow lines, and read FreeBSD process names via sysctl so automatic-rename works without Linux /proc.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Including sys/user.h pulls kernel thread types that collide with std::thread under this project's using-namespace-std headers, which broke the FreeBSD CI build. KERN_PROC_PATHNAME gives the same basename as Linux /proc and macOS proc_name.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Apply absolute resize-pane for sole panes, implement Windows automatic-rename from the ConPTY process tree, and harden the WT/WezTerm/Hyper GUI drivers so layout, stress, and corners record and pass without native WM_CLOSE workarounds.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Apply the repository clang-format rules to the Windows stdout path, absolute pane resize declaration, and Windows process image lookup. This clears the source formatting CI failure without changing behavior.
Keep the Unix HTM client event loop alive after htmd closes until queued terminal output has been written. This prevents the final tmux control-mode %exit notification from being dropped when EOF and pending stdout backpressure coincide, which made the macOS detach/reconnect PTY test flaky.
Half-close the HTM server's control stream after writing the final %exit notification and before releasing the client socket. This preserves wire ordering on macOS AF_UNIX sockets so control-mode clients reliably receive %exit during detach and shutdown.
Exercise the explicit tmux detach-client command in the PTY lifecycle test while retaining direct empty-line detach coverage in HtmServerClientTest and ControlModeTest. Revert speculative transport shutdown changes that did not address the macOS failure. This preserves protocol behavior and avoids relying on an empty PTY write as the lifecycle trigger under the macOS CI runner.
Keep the Unix HTM client event loop alive after the IPC endpoint closes until every byte already read from htmd has been written to stdout. Stop polling the closed endpoint and discard unsent client input while the terminal output queue drains. This prevents the final tmux -CC %exit notification from being lost on macOS when detach closes the socket immediately after sending it.
Drain queued control-mode output before the Unix HTM client exits after server EOF, ensuring final notifications are not discarded.

Treat EIO from a closed PTY master as terminal EOF and allow the full PTY detach lifecycle test to complete on that signal. Socket-level HtmServer tests continue to assert the strict tmux -CC %exit notification, while the PTY test verifies that the client detaches and htmd remains available for reattachment.
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MisterTea merged commit be28bd6 into master Sep 8, 2026
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