feat(sessions): shorten titles from the middle, window lines to the match - #139
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…atch The title is this app's primary way to tell sessions apart, and it was the least readable thing in the row. Measured on 125 unique custom titles: median 44 chars against a 35-char cut, 64% over it, and 38% written as `A -> B > C` chains whose newest step sits at the END — exactly what head-only truncation removes. Worst consequence: 48 of 125 titles shared their first 35 characters, so eight different sessions all rendered as `fred-ff nextjs backend and mcp arch`. That is a browsing failure, not a search one. - truncateMiddle keeps both ends: `head … tail`. Budget 35 -> 60, which needs looking at in the real window before it settles. - The full title is on a title= attribute, so hovering shows all of it — previously there was no way to read it at all. - windowAroundMatch moves each capped line's window to the first match while searching, so a row shows WHY it matched instead of filtering in and showing nothing. Applied through one fitToRow() to title, first and last message, branch and last AI reply. Measured: 39% of first prompts and 42% of last prompts are longer than the space they render in. - Issue #138: the matched-prompt line used #999 — the same grey as the first-message line — with a U+2315 marker illegible at 11px (read as "•", then "ρ", by the person who asked for the feature). Now amber, in the search-highlight family, with a worded marker. No change needed for the duplicate-suppression hole (§4.5 R3): once the first/last lines window to the match, suppressing the extra line is correct again. Tests: 82 pass, +8 for the two helpers. Both mutation-verified — reverting truncateMiddle to a head slice fails 2, making windowAroundMatch a no-op fails 2. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GvkXq7nfQokaTTnbNP8LhD
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR changes how session titles and matched lines are displayed. At the current head, edge-case width handling can exceed very small limits, and repeated search terms can leave the selected match out of the displayed window; the fallback behavior also lacks a regression case. This can make rows misleading or violate the intended display limit, so merge should wait for a fix or explicit acceptance. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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SessionSearch->>fitToRow: provide active search words
fitToRow->>SessionRow: return match-centered or middle-truncated text
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In `@src/session-search.ts`:
- Around line 123-125: Adjust the match-window calculation surrounding the
session-search result construction so that when both sides are truncated, the
text slice reserves space for both ellipses and the final result never exceeds
max. Preserve the existing boundary behavior for untruncated ends, and add an
exact-length assertion for a distant match with max set to 60.
- Around line 121-122: Update the match-handling logic in the session search
flow so the truncation fallback is used only when the rendered result still
contains the matched word; otherwise, use a match-centered window. Replace the
current at < max - 1 head-window condition while preserving fallback behavior
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- Around line 1949-1963: Run the project formatter on the changed JSX in
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PR #139 review round 1. Four of eight findings are one bug, caught by both bots — and grimmer hit the same thing in the UI while testing, from the other direction. windowAroundMatch promised the returned window CONTAINS the first match, then decided "already visible" with a head-window test (at < max - 1) while its fallback truncated from the MIDDLE. For a 60-char budget a match at index 28 passed that test and landed in the elided middle. Real instance, grimmer's own title: agentic-fred harden again - pr2-1533-v7-readiness — deps ... search "pr2-1533-v7-", match at 28 before agentic-fred harden again - pr…k gate, usage-alias migration after …fred harden again - pr2-1533-v7-readiness — deps refresh, … Fixed by asking the fallback whether it shows the match rather than modelling where it keeps characters. Same lesson as PR #137's last round: every "I assume the other function does X" eventually assumes wrong. Also: the window returned max + 1 characters, having reserved room for one ellipsis while rendering two. A capped line that overruns its cap is not capped. The tests missed both, so they are rewritten rather than extended: - no window test asserted the max budget at all - the "earliest match" test used overlapping candidate windows, so it passed even when centred on the LATER word. Now the candidates are 400 chars apart with an explicit not.toContain Snippet colours reworked after grimmer's UI test: the chip is now exactly SEARCH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE's amber, so chip and highlighted words read as one system, and the line's text returns to the prompt grey — amber body sat too close to the orange last-message line, and the snippet IS a user prompt, not an assistant reply. CHANGELOG: "median 44, 64% longer than the old cut" read as "44 is 64% longer than 35". It meant 64% OF TITLES run past it. 84 tests. Mutation-verified: restoring the head-window assumption fails 1, dropping the ellipsis budget fails 1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GvkXq7nfQokaTTnbNP8LhD
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maxat the lower boundary.Line 89 returns the complete text when
max <= 1. For example,truncateMiddle('ab', 1)returns two characters.windowAroundMatchalso returns this uncapped fallback when no word matches.Return
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In `@src/session-search.ts`:
- Around line 133-134: Update the fallback handling in the session-search
match-selection flow so a plain fallback is reused only when hit has no later
occurrence; otherwise render the window centered on the occurrence selected by
the existing needle logic. Preserve the earliest matched occurrence and add
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In `@src/session-search.ts`:
- Around line 89-93: Update truncateMiddle so non-positive max returns an empty
string, while overlong text with max === 1 returns only the ellipsis; retain
complete text for max === 1 when it already fits. Ensure windowAroundMatch
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PR #139 review round 2. Four findings, three of them one question about the same line. - A long search word could still be cut (cubic P2, real). Centring the window on the match is not enough: a word can start inside the window and run past its end, so the trailing ellipsis swallows it and the branch fails at the one thing it exists to do. The window now slides forward until the match's tail fits, and when a word is longer than the window at all it is shown from its FIRST character — a cut at the end is unavoidable, a cut at the start would hide where the match begins. - truncateMiddle broke its own cap at the lower boundary (CodeRabbit, review body): max <= 1 returned the whole string, so truncateMiddle('ab', 1) was two characters. Same class as the max + 1 bug last round, other end. Now '' at 0 and the ellipsis alone at 1, which is the only honest thing that fits. - Repeated words (CodeRabbit + cubic x2): reusing the fallback when it shows a LATER occurrence contradicted a docblock promising the FIRST match. Fixed on the docblock, not the code, and the reasoning is on the threads: picking the earliest occurrence only decides where to centre; what the reader is owed is that a match is visible. If the ordinary head+tail rendering already shows one, returning it keeps the highlight AND keeps the row from jumping for no visible reason. Two tests pin both directions so the behaviour is a decision rather than an accident. 89 tests. Mutation-verified: removing the slide-forward fails 1, restoring the old lower boundary fails 1, always windowing fails 2. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GvkXq7nfQokaTTnbNP8LhD
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P2: When `text` contains a lowercasing expansion before a long match, `at` indexes the lowercased string but `start` slices the original. The window can therefore drop the first matched character; preserve source offsets during case-insensitive matching.</violation>
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PR #139 review round 3, both from cubic, both real. - Case folding can change length, so an index taken in a lowercased copy does not address the same character in the source. 'İ'.toLowerCase() is two code units, so a title containing one before the match shifted every later index by a character and the window sheared the first matched character off. The search now runs case-insensitively over the ORIGINAL string, which also makes `hit` the source match rather than the query word — the length the window actually has to fit. Query words are escaped, so a title searched for `a+b(c)` is matched as literal text rather than as a pattern. - windowAroundMatch broke its own cap at tiny budgets: at max = 0 a matching input still returned an ellipsis. There is no useful window in one or two characters and building one spends the whole budget on ellipses, so those delegate to the fallback, which already honours the cap. Third time the cap has been wrong in this helper — max + 1, then truncateMiddle's lower boundary, now this — which is why the budget assertion added in round 1 now runs across every branch. 92 tests. Mutation-verified: restoring lowercased indexing fails 1, dropping the tiny-budget guard fails 1, removing the regex escaping fails 1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GvkXq7nfQokaTTnbNP8LhD
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In `@src/session-search.test.ts`:
- Around line 192-200: Update the test case in keeps the ordinary rendering when
it already shows some occurrence so the first NEEDLE falls outside
truncateMiddle’s retained head slice while the later NEEDLE remains in the
retained tail slice; preserve the assertions that plain contains NEEDLE and
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PR #139 review round 4. Last round's fix traded one exotic bug for another, and cubic caught it from both sides. Searching the original text with /i does not fold the way toLowerCase does: the filter accepts 'İ' for the query 'i', the regex does not. So a row could be LISTED by matchesAllWords and then show no highlight at all — a regression of the exact guarantee this helper exists for, introduced while fixing an off-by-one. The rule is now singular again: match with toLowerCase, exactly as matchesAllWords does, then translate the offset into the source by walking the lowercased prefix. Matching semantics and source coordinates were never the same question, and answering both with a regex answered neither. The escaping helper goes away with it, so there is no pattern to inject into either. Also: the repeated-word test never reached the branch it named (CodeRabbit). Its first occurrence sat inside the head slice truncateMiddle keeps, so "earliest elided, later one visible" was never exercised. The fixture now places the earliest occurrence in the elided middle and asserts that explicitly. Third test of mine on these two PRs that claimed more than it verified. New test pins the thing that broke: the filter and the window must agree on Unicode folding. 93 tests. Mutation-verified: removing the offset translation fails 1. Using the query word's length instead of the source span's fails nothing — its effect is unobservable in any case I could construct, so it is recorded as reasoning rather than dressed up with a contrived test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GvkXq7nfQokaTTnbNP8LhD
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cubic P2, and it is exact: a query can begin INSIDE a folding
expansion. The combining dot is the second half of what 'İ'
lowercases to, and a prefix count can only name whole source
characters, so it reported the character AFTER 'İ' and the span came
back empty.
An empty hit is worse than a wrong one. `plain.includes('')` is
trivially true, so the fallback was accepted unconditionally and the
row's only match could stay hidden — the failure this helper exists
to prevent, reached through the code meant to prevent it.
Third round in a row on Unicode folding, so this changes the data
structure rather than adding another condition: record which source
character each folded unit came from, then read both ends off that
map. Start and end are answered independently, and the end is
inclusive, so a match that begins or ends mid-expansion still yields
a non-empty span. The map is built only when folding actually
changed the length — for ASCII and CJK the two strings share
coordinates and nothing is allocated.
94 tests. Mutation-verified: dropping the origin lookup fails 2,
using an exclusive end fails 1.
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Summary
Session-finding §4.5 — row readability (plan:
docs/session-finding-plan.md). Follows PR #137. The custom title is this app's primary way to tell sessions apart — the user hand-titles every non-throwaway session — and it was the least readable thing in the row.The measurement that reframed this
Taken from the reference machine's 125 unique custom titles:
A -> B > Cchains, newest step at the ENDfred-ff nextjs backend and mcp archThe last row is the point: this was never mainly a search problem. 38% of titles were ambiguous while simply browsing, because head-only truncation removes exactly the segment that distinguishes one session from the next.
What changed
1. Titles shorten from the middle —
truncateMiddle(text, 60)givinghead … tail, so a chain keeps its newest step:The budget went 35 → 60. That number is a starting point, not a conclusion — it needs looking at against the real window, and is expected to move.
2. The full title is on a
title=attribute. Previously there was no way to read a long title at all; now hovering shows it.3. Searching moves each line's window to the match.
windowAroundMatch()shifts a capped line so the first match is inside it, with ellipses marking what was cut. Applied through onefitToRow()helper to the title, first and last message, branch, and last AI reply — one rule, six call sites.This is the other half of the same defect: a row would satisfy the filter and then display nothing explaining why. Measured — 39% of first prompts and 42% of last prompts are longer than the space they render in.
4. Issue #138 — the matched-prompt line no longer reads as a message line. It used
#999, the same grey as the first-message line, one pixel smaller, and its⌕marker (U+2315) is illegible at 11px — reported as•and thenρby the person who asked for the feature. It is now amber, in the same family asSEARCH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE, with a wordedmatch #Nmarker.Implementation notes
Both helpers are pure and live in
session-search.tsbesideextractSnippet, so they are unit-testable without the renderer. The row calls them through a singlefitToRow(text, max)closure that picks match-windowing while a search is live and middle-truncation otherwise — the alternative was six call sites each deciding for themselves, which is how the last PR's bugs happened.One thing deliberately not changed: §4.5's R3, where the
⌕line is suppressed when the match lands in prompt #0 or the last prompt even though those lines are themselves capped. It needs no separate fix — once those lines window to the match, suppressing the duplicate is correct again. R3 was a symptom of the missing window, not an independent bug.npx tsc --noEmitclean. Prettier: the two touched pure modules are fully formatted; inswitcher-ui.tsxonly the line breaks this PR introduced are fixed, perdocs/session-finding-plan.md§7.11 — that file carries over a thousand pre-existing violations and no CI lint gate.Tests
82 pass (+8). Mutation-verified rather than assumed:
truncateMiddle→ plain head slicewindowAroundMatch→ always fall backThe load-bearing case asserts two titles that are identical for 35 characters render differently after truncation — the browsing failure above, expressed as a test.
How to test (
yarn make)fred-ff nextjs backend and mcp archsessions should be distinguishable at a glance.….match #Nline — search for something in a middle prompt; the line should read as amber with a labelled marker, clearly not another message line.Follow-ups
Closes #138.
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Shortens long session titles from the middle and windows capped lines to include a visible match, so each row shows why it matched. Previously titles were head-truncated to 35 and matches could be hidden; now titles render as a 60‑char head … tail with a tooltip, and search shifts each capped line to include a match without overrunning its cap.
truncateMiddle(text, 60)andwindowAroundMatch()in src/session-search.ts; a singlefitToRowin src/switcher-ui.tsx applies them to the title, branch, first/last user message, and last assistant reply.toLowerCase()exactly asmatchesAllWords, then translate offsets back to the source so highlights align, including Unicode folding and matches that begin inside a folding expansion; query words are literals, not regex.Written for commit f7a51ce. Summary will update on new commits.
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