fix: Make the view fit the terminal it is drawn on - #982
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…t moved Scrolling to the bottom of the events pane and pressing up scrolled the rows one at a time with no row highlighted anywhere. table.SetCursor moves the cursor without reconciling the viewport's scroll offset. UpdateViewport renders a WINDOW of rows around the cursor — start = clamp(cursor-height, 0, cursor) — and the viewport shows `height` lines of that window beginning at its own YOffset, which only MoveUp/MoveDown maintain. So with YOffset 0 and a cursor at or past one screenful, start lands on cursor-height and the cursor sits at window line `height`: exactly one line past the last visible one. The row is rendered and the highlight is drawn on it, off the bottom edge. MoveUp cannot recover from that state — its cases are start == 0, start < height, and YOffset >= 1, and none match — so YOffset stays 0 while start walks up with the cursor. That is the reported symptom: the rows scroll under the arrow key and no row is ever highlighted. Measured on a 40-row session at height 11: SetCursor(10) leaves the cursor on screen, SetCursor(11) and every target above it do not. setCursorVisible expresses the jump as relative movement instead — GotoTop to normalize the offset, then one MoveDown of n, which is a distance and not a loop, so it costs two O(height) re-renders however far the cursor travels. Every programmatic cursor placement now goes through it: - rebuildEventsTable's auto-follow and position-restore. This is why the bug showed up even when the bottom had been reached with the arrow keys: the pane rebuilds on every incoming event, and the restore lost the highlight again. The restore is also unconditional now — the old `else if prevRow < len(rows)` skipped it entirely when the rows shrank under the cursor (a filter typed, hideInactive toggled), leaving the cursor whereever SetRows had clamped it with an offset nobody reconciled. - goTop / goBottom, i.e. the g and G keys, for all four tables. The empty-row guards fold into the helper, which clamps. - the sessions pane's restore-by-session-id, and the pipeline pane's divider-skip nudges, which become MoveUp/MoveDown of 1. PgUp/PgDn were already relative moves and were never affected. Tests assert what an operator sees rather than the cursor index — the index was always correct, it was the rendered window that excluded it — by giving each fixture row a unique host and requiring the selected row's text to appear in the table's View(). Against the stub that kept the old behaviour they fail 31 times, with the boundary exactly at the table height. Verified: go test ./... in cmd/abctl passes except TestRunExec_BeforeFirstStartRunsAndSaysWhatIsLost, which fails identically on an unmodified upstream/main and is unrelated; go vet clean; golangci-lint --new-from-rev=upstream/main reports 0 issues; gofmt clean. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
… case costs Review catch: three of the converted call sites had no test, and the rows-shrink case was mis-described. The description said the unconditional restore fixes a cursor "left wherever SetRows had clamped it, with an offset nobody reconciled". Measured, it is worse than that. rebuildEventsTable clears the table first (SetRows(nil)), which clamps the cursor to len(rows)-1 = -1, and the refill does not restore it because -1 is not greater than the new len-1. The old `else if prevRow < len(rows)` guard was false whenever the rows shrank past the cursor, so nothing restored it either and the cursor stayed at -1: NO ROW SELECTED AT ALL. Not a highlight one line off — SelectedRow returns nil, selectedEventRow reports not-ok, and the detail pane goes blank. Typing a filter or toggling hideInactive while parked below the new row count did that every time, on any list length. Pinned red: parked at row 30: selected row 30 is off screen; the view shows rows 19..29 after the filter shrank the list: no row selected (cursor=-1) no selected row resolves after the shrink New tests, each verified red against the pre-fix files: - FilterShrink, over both a moderate shrink (ten rows) and a drastic one (one row, shorter than the table), plus the round trip back. A drastic shrink is self-correcting for the OFFSET — the viewport clamps when the content gets shorter than YOffset — so only the moderate case exercises that half, while both exercise the lost selection. - HideInactiveShrink, which removes rows from the MIDDLE, so no surviving row keeps its old index. - SessionsTable_RestoreByID: the sessions pane restores by session id on a poll rather than a keystroke, so the same lost highlight was one refresh away there too. Covers the fallback-to-row-0 branch that absorbed the old len(rows) > 0 guard, and an empty list after it. The divider-nudge tests PIN behaviour rather than catch a regression: MoveDown(1) and SetCursor(+1) agree on the index, including the clamp at both ends, so they pass either way. They exist because the offset does move now — skipping the divider can scroll the pane by a line — and because both ends and both directions should stay pinned while that is true. Two nits, also from review: - the empty-table assertion accepted `> 0`, which admits 0 — itself not a row on an empty table. It now pins "the cursor is left exactly as it was", which is all the helper promises, over both ways a table can be empty: fresh (cursor 0) and emptied by SetRows(nil) (cursor -1). This is what caught the stub moving a fresh empty table's cursor from 0 to -1. - stray "in it" in table_cursor.go's MoveUp paragraph. assertSelectionVisible now reads the marker off the SELECTED ROW instead of deriving it from the cursor index, because under a filter row N is no longer event N and the old form would have asserted that some unrelated row was on screen. Verified: go test ./tui/ passes; gofmt clean; go vet clean; golangci-lint --new-from-rev=upstream/main 0 issues. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
Reported from a running session: scrolling to the very last message highlights it, then a second later "it deselects that last row, goes one line up, and the highlight disappears" — consistently, on a ~1s cadence. Same root cause as this branch already fixes, and the measurement says so precisely: the cursor never moves. Against the pre-fix files, with an event arriving each tick, tick 1: selected row 40 is off screen; the view shows rows 29..39 tick 2: selected row 41 is off screen; the view shows rows 30..40 Auto-follow puts the cursor on the new last row every time and the index assertion never fires — what is wrong is that the rendered window ends one row short of it. The selection is on row 40 while the screen shows up to 39, which is indistinguishable from a deselection that scrolled up a line. The one-second cadence is the poll's rebuild, which is when SetCursor re-windows the rows. Kept as its own test because the existing auto-follow test rebuilds WITHOUT adding events, so it never exercised the tail growing under the cursor — the shape every live session is in. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
Nothing in the view sets MaxWidth or MaxHeight, so View()'s string reaches the terminal verbatim and the terminal is what enforces the geometry — badly. A view one line too tall scrolls the top away; a single line one column too wide wraps into a second screen line that the height budget never reserved, pushing the bottom row off. Four separate places broke that, and all four presented to an operator the same way the cursor bug did: rows falling off the bottom. FIXED-WIDTH TABLES. Only the events table ever fitted itself — issue rossoctl#866's fix, in fitColumns. The other three kept the widths their constructors declare, so a row was the sum of those plus bubbles' two columns of cell padding: sessions 90 columns (the first screen an operator sees) catalog 116 columns pipeline 66 columns Every one of them wider than the 80-column default, so every row wrapped onto a second screen line — scrambling the columns and breaking the height budget at once, because the budget counts rows while the terminal counts lines. The sessions table's own comment promised "widths are refined later by layout() based on terminal width"; layout() only ever set heights. New fitTableColumns narrows the widest column first, down to a floor, and layout() applies it from the constructors' definitions on every resize so widening the terminal restores what narrowing took. THE FILTER'S LINE. View() prepends filterInput above the body while the filter is open, but layout() reserved a flat 3 rows for title + blank + footer. Measured, the view came out one line taller than the terminal at every size — so the bottom row went missing for as long as an operator was typing a filter. bodyH now gives up a line while m.filtering, and the four places that toggle the flag recompute the layout, since the budget depends on it and a WindowSizeMsg may never come. THE IDENTITY BANNER. identityBannerHeight was a constant 6 that rebuildEventsTable subtracted, and identityBanner had no Width while its multi-caller branch joins EVERY distinct subject into one line. So the banner rendered 109 columns for one long subject and 618 for six, lipgloss.Height still said 6 (it counts newlines, and with no Width nothing wrapped), the accounting looked right, and the TERMINAL wrapped the line into 1-7 extra rows the events table had already claimed. Now the content lines are truncated to the width, and the reserved height is MEASURED off the rendered banner (identityBannerHeightFor) instead of declared — the constant-versus-reality gap was the whole defect, so the fix removes the gap rather than correcting the constant. The invariant is now asserted mechanically in layout_fit_test.go — no line wider than the terminal, no more lines than it has — across six panes, five terminal sizes, the filter open and closed (through the real "/" key, so a handler that forgets to recompute cannot hide behind a test that recomputes for it), and five identity shapes. Verified red: with the four behaviours disabled, 415 assertions fail, reporting "sessions table is 90 columns wide at terminal width 80", "view is 25 lines for a 24-line terminal (1 too many)", and "line 0 is 618 columns for a 200-column terminal". Found by probing proactively rather than from a report, alongside six classes that came back clean: tiny terminals down to 1x1 (no panics), PgUp/PgDn selection visibility, the pipeline divider row against its column count, a sessions pane cycled empty and refilled nine times (no rows[-1], which several panes would index), CJK and emoji hosts, and token/cost cells at 2^40 and negative. One suspected bug was withdrawn on measurement: a newline in a cell is harmless, because bubbles' renderRow renders every cell Inline(true) and truncates it. Verified: go test ./... in cmd/abctl passes except TestRunExec_BeforeFirstStartRunsAndSaysWhatIsLost, which fails identically on an unmodified upstream/main; gofmt clean; go vet clean; golangci-lint --new-from-rev=upstream/main 0 issues. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe TUI now fits tables and identity banners to terminal dimensions, recalculates layout during filter changes, and preserves visible selections during table navigation and data rebuilds. Tests cover layout dimensions, banner sizing, cursor visibility, filtering, resizing, and live updates. ChangesTUI layout and cursor handling
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Narrow pod pickers and filtered seven-row terminals can still overflow visually. These bounded layout defects should be fixed before merge if those terminal sizes are supported. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/keys.go`:
- Around line 880-882: Update the bodyH minimum logic in the filtering view so a
seven-row terminal can render the title, filter input, three-row body, and
footer without exceeding m.height; preserve the existing four-row minimum for
non-filtering views unless the surrounding layout explicitly requires otherwise.
In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/layout_fit_test.go`:
- Around line 89-92: Update TestLayout_EveryPaneFitsTheTerminal to include
paneNamespaces and panePods in its pane map. In layout(), apply fitTableColumns
to the pod table columns using the existing narrow-width fitting behavior, while
leaving the namespace table unfitted because its 40-column width does not
require production fitting at the 60-column threshold.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Keep the filtered view within a seven-row terminal.
When m.height is 7 and m.filtering is true, bodyH becomes 3, then this floor restores it to 4. paneView() then renders a title, filter input, four-row body, and two-row footer. The output is eight rows.
Allow a three-row body while filtering, or reject terminal sizes that cannot render the full view.
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In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/keys.go` around lines 880 - 882, Update the bodyH
minimum logic in the filtering view so a seven-row terminal can render the
title, filter input, three-row body, and footer without exceeding m.height;
preserve the existing four-row minimum for non-filtering views unless the
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Fit the pod table and cover both picker panes.
newPodsTable() renders 62 columns with cell padding. At width 60, layout() sets only the picker table height, and paneView() renders the unfit table directly. Pod rows can wrap and consume extra screen lines. This causes localized visual and height overflow. The picker still updates the cursor and handles Enter for port forwarding, so the overflow does not block the workflow.
Add paneNamespaces and panePods to TestLayout_EveryPaneFitsTheTerminal. Apply fitTableColumns to the pod columns in layout(). The namespace table is 40 columns wide, so it needs matrix coverage but no production fitting at the 60-column trigger.
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In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/layout_fit_test.go` around lines 89 - 92, Update
TestLayout_EveryPaneFitsTheTerminal to include paneNamespaces and panePods in
its pane map. In layout(), apply fitTableColumns to the pod table columns using
the existing narrow-width fitting behavior, while leaving the namespace table
unfitted because its 40-column width does not require production fitting at the
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一脉相承 (yī mài xiāng chéng — "cut from the same cloth," of a piece with #981). Another clean one, Hai — same class of "rows fall off the bottom," different root cause.
I verified the arithmetic against the source rather than the prose: cellPadding and borderWidth are both 2 (events_columns.go), so the new tableWidth charges exactly what the existing columnsWidth does for []eventColumn — the two column models stay in agreement — and the banner's inner = width - borderWidth - 2 correctly reserves border (2) + style padding (2). layout() re-fits the three fixed-width tables from their constructor definitions on every resize, so a widened terminal restores what a narrowed one took (non-cumulative, as the sessionsColumns()-as-function comment intends), while the events table keeps fitting itself through fitColumns — no double-fit. fitTableColumns terminates cleanly at the minColumnWidth floor.
The strongest move is measuring the banner height (identityBannerHeightFor) instead of correcting the const 6 — it closes the gap permanently rather than picking a new number to drift from. And the test presses the real / key rather than setting m.filtering, so a handler that forgets to recompute the layout can't hide behind it.
Areas reviewed: Go (TUI layout / bubbles tables / lipgloss), tests, commit/PR conventions, security.
Commits: reviewed d8f9e68 (this PR's own); #981's 3 commits reviewed separately. All 4 signed-off (DCO ✓).
CI status: all green.
Problem
Nothing in the view sets
MaxWidthorMaxHeight, soView()'s string reaches the terminalverbatim and the terminal is what enforces the geometry — badly. A view one line too tall
scrolls the top away; a single line one column too wide wraps into a second screen line that
the height budget never reserved, pushing the bottom row off.
Four places broke that, and all four look to an operator exactly like #981's cursor bug: rows
falling off the bottom.
1. Fixed-width tables
Only the events table ever fitted itself — #866's fix, in
fitColumns. The other three keptthe widths their constructors declare, and a row is the sum of those plus bubbles' two
columns of cell padding per column:
Every row wrapped onto a second screen line, which scrambles the columns and breaks the height
budget at the same time — the budget counts rows while the terminal counts lines. The sessions
table's own comment promised "widths are refined later by layout() based on terminal width";
layout()only ever set heights.New
fitTableColumnsnarrows the widest column first down to a floor, andlayout()appliesit from the constructors' definitions on every resize, so widening the terminal restores what
narrowing took away.
2. The filter's line was never in the budget
View()prependsfilterInputabove the body while the filter is open;layout()reserved aflat 3 rows for title + blank + footer. Measured, the view came out one line taller than the
terminal at every size — so the bottom row went missing for as long as you were typing a
filter.
bodyHnow gives up a line whilem.filtering, and the four places that toggle theflag recompute the layout (the budget depends on it, and a
WindowSizeMsgmay never come).3. The identity banner was unbounded
identityBannerHeightwas a constant6thatrebuildEventsTablesubtracted, andidentityBannerhad noWidthwhile its multi-caller branch joins every distinct subjectinto one line:
lipgloss.Heightstill reported 6 — it counts newlines, and with noWidthnothing wrapped —so the accounting looked correct while the terminal wrapped the line into rows the events
table had already claimed. Content lines are now truncated to the width, and the reserved
height is measured off the rendered banner (
identityBannerHeightFor) rather thandeclared. The constant-versus-reality gap was the defect, so this removes the gap instead of
correcting the constant.
Testing
layout_fit_test.goasserts the invariant mechanically — no line wider than the terminal, nomore lines than it has — across six panes × five terminal sizes × filter open/closed × five
identity shapes. The filter cases press the real
/key rather than setting the flag, so ahandler that forgets to recompute can't hide behind a test that recomputes for it.
Verified red: with the four behaviours disabled, 415 assertions fail, reporting
sessions table is 90 columns wide at terminal width 80,view is 25 lines for a 24-line terminal (1 too many), andline 0 is 618 columns for a 200-column terminal.go test ./...incmd/abctlpasses exceptTestRunExec_BeforeFirstStartRunsAndSaysWhatIsLost("bundle path that does not exist"), which fails identically on an unmodified
main—pre-existing and unrelated.
gofmtclean;go vetclean;golangci-lint --new-from-rev=upstream/main0 issues.Provenance, and what came back clean
Found by probing proactively rather than from a report. Six classes tested clean and are worth
recording so they aren't re-litigated: tiny terminals down to 1×1 (no panics), PgUp/PgDn
selection visibility, the pipeline divider row against its column count, a sessions pane cycled
empty and refilled nine times (no
rows[-1], which several panes would index), CJK and emojihosts, and token/cost cells at 2^40 and negative.
One suspected bug was withdrawn on measurement: a newline in a cell looked like it broke
row geometry, but a control fixture showed identical output — bubbles'
renderRowrenders everycell
Inline(true)and truncates it, so the newline never reaches the screen.Note — stacked on #981
This branches off #981 (
fix/tui-cursor-visibility) rather thanmain: its test file reusesthat PR's
cursorRowsFixture, and both touchkeys.go(different functions — #981 hasgoTop/goBottom, this haslayout()).A PR cannot target a branch that lives in a fork, so the base here is
mainand GitHub shows#981's three commits alongside this one. Only
d8f9e686belongs to this PR. Merge #981first and this narrows to that single commit automatically — please review it that way, or
review the commit directly.
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