feat(abctl): make the [?] overlay a map of the panes, not a key dump - #1100
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The overlay answered "what does this key do" and never "what screens are there, and how do I reach them". Four things made that so: - OTHER PANES compacted each pane to its bare keys. `USAGE m w b s esc` told a reader the pane has five keys and nothing about what any of them do, or what the pane is. - No pane was ever described. Nothing said usage draws charts or that the pipeline is the plugin chain, so choosing a pane meant visiting it. - No topology. namespaces -> pods -> sessions -> events -> detail is a spine with usage/pipeline/catalog hanging off it; that shape, and the fact that Esc walks the spine back, appeared nowhere. - GLOBAL was a bin: the overlay's own scroll keys, the keys that OPEN other panes, the spend drawer's `a`/`w` (inert unless it is already up) and a caveat with an empty key column, under one heading claiming they all worked everywhere. Three of those groups did not. Restructured into: the active pane (purpose + keys), GO TO ANOTHER PANE, THE DRILL PATH, ANYWHERE, INSIDE THE SPEND DRAWER, then EVERY PANE in full. Ordered by what a lost reader asks first. The jump section is per pane and lists only keys that work there, which matters because the three do not share an allowlist: `u`/`P` open from the session views, `C` from anything past the pickers, `$` follows the drawer's host rule. The old group rendered identically everywhere, so on the namespaces picker it advertised three dead keys and on usage a fourth. jumpsFrom() owns that, and the parity test drives the real handlers for all nine panes rather than restating their switches. `P`, `C` and `u` are no longer advertised twice. They lived in globalKeys AND inside the pane groups, two copies free to disagree; they are now only in jumpTargets, whose labels derive from paneName so a row cannot name a pane something its own title does not. The body also wraps now. syncHelpViewport's comment claimed it re-wrapped on resize while helpBodyLines took no width at all, so the one long line the old overlay had -- the spend-scope caveat, ~100 columns -- lost its second half on an 80-column terminal and said nothing about it. Cost: the body grows from ~33 to ~75 lines, so the scroll affordance is now up at nearly every size. `g`/`G` already worked and the close hint is already pinned; completeness belongs on the one surface with no width or height budget to defend. Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com> Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
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- Around line 763-767: Update the “GO TO ANOTHER PANE” documentation to include
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| 2. **GO TO ANOTHER PANE** — the keys that leave, each naming the pane | ||
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| key actually works: all four (`u`, `P`, `C`, `$`) from the session | ||
| views, `C` alone on Usage, and on the two pickers a line saying | ||
| they open once you're connected rather than four dead keys; |
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Document the plugin-pane jump keys.
The list is exhaustive because it says each key is shown only where it works. C works from Pipeline and Plugin Detail, and $ works from Pipeline, Plugin Detail, and Plugin Catalog. Add these cases so the README matches the overlay and handlers.
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| 2. **GO TO ANOTHER PANE** — the keys that leave, each naming the pane | |
| it opens and what is on it. Rendered per pane and only where the | |
| key actually works: all four (`u`, `P`, `C`, `$`) from the session | |
| views, `C` alone on Usage, and on the two pickers a line saying | |
| they open once you're connected rather than four dead keys; | |
| 2. **GO TO ANOTHER PANE** — the keys that leave, each naming the pane | |
| it opens and what is on it. Rendered per pane and only where the | |
| key actually works: all four (`u`, `P`, `C`, `$`) from the session | |
| views, `C` alone on Usage, and on the two pickers a line saying | |
| they open once you're connected rather than four dead keys; `C` and `$` | |
| from Pipeline and Plugin Detail; and `$` from Plugin Catalog; |
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In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/README.md` around lines 763 - 767, Update the “GO TO
ANOTHER PANE” documentation to include the plugin-pane jump keys: document C and
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…he map Review on rossoctl#1100. Four findings, all confirmed by measurement first. wrapWords split on spaces only, and its comment justified that by claiming the only over-long words here were paths and URLs. Wrong: the offenders are the usage pane's own enum lists -- "(tokens/requests/errors/latency/ cost)" at 37 columns and "(none/status/method/plugin/host;" at 31. Under EVERY PANE the description column starts at 18, so both overran anything below 61 columns and the viewport clipped them. Measured 53 overflowing lines across the nine panes at widths 40/41/48; at 50 columns a reader saw "(tokens/requests/erro". That is the defect this PR exists to remove, reintroduced one layer down. Now breaks after `/` when a single word will not fit, joining the pieces with no separator so no invented space appears mid-token. The guard for that checked ONE pane at ONE width -- paneSessions at 56, the combination where the invariant happened to hold. It now runs all nine panes across 40/41/48/50/56/61/80/120, which is zero overflow. renderDrillPath marked only panes on the spine, so usage, pipeline, plugin detail and the catalog rendered a bare list with no "you are here" at all -- the four panes whose reader most needs locating, and the case the doc comment and the README both claimed was covered. They are key-opened surfaces rather than steps, so there is no position to bracket; they now get a line naming that and naming where esc returns them. Guarded for every pane, not one. The no-jump line on the pickers was headerless prose at the same indent and style as everything above it, so it read as a trailing row of the pane block rather than as the answer to "where can I go". It keeps the GO TO ANOTHER PANE heading now, carried as the group's purpose: the section holds its place in the overlay's shape on every pane while still listing no key that does nothing. Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com> Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
Second round of review on rossoctl#1100. Seven findings, each confirmed before being changed. ANYWHERE listed "b / f page up / down" on every pane, and paneUsage binds `b` to the breakdown cycle: its handler runs first and returns, and pageActivePane has no case for that pane, so neither half of the row was true there. `a` and `w` were moved out of this group for exactly that reason and `b` was not. The row is now dropped where paging does not exist, and two tests guard it -- one comparing ANYWHERE against the active pane's own keys (splitting "b / f" into b and f, since comparing key COLUMNS is why nothing noticed), one pressing `b` on usage so the exclusion stays tied to behaviour rather than to a switch nobody re-reads. overlayOnlyKeys names the documented exception: `?` and the scroll keys describe the overlay, not the pane, so both meanings are true at once. That check also flagged paneNamespaces restating `q` from ANYWHERE. Its row is now `esc` alone, keeping the pane-specific fact (esc quits, because nothing is above it) without a second copy of quit. TestHelpOverlayScrollHint had been SKIPPING since the first commit here: the body is 86 lines at 100 columns and the test asked for 60 rows, so the guard fired and took the three short-terminal assertions with it while reporting PASS. Split into two tests; the tall one asserts the height floor (89) instead of skipping, and says what to raise it to. Four test-quality findings, all correct: - The jump-label check compared jt.name() against the expression that IS jt.name()'s body, so it could not fail. Pinned to literals, and jumpTarget.label -- ignored for pane targets -- must now be empty so a wrong one cannot hide from the compiler or the reader. - The `$` arm of the jump parity test called spendDrawerHost(), the same function jumpsFrom consults, so it compared the implementation with itself. It now presses `$` on a terminal tall enough for the drawer and checks spend.expanded. - TestHelpOverlayScrollKeys' up-scroll branch was `if ... { return }` with no assertion, so scrolling back up was untested while looking covered. - TestUsageFooterMatchesHandledKeys hand-copied {m,w,b,s} "per the paneUsage switch" and never pressed them, leaving the footer-vs-handler claim in its own name unenforced. Each key is now driven and checked for a state change. Two unchecked strings.Index calls followed non-fatal t.Errorf, so a body missing a section title would index at -1 and panic, aborting the package instead of failing one case. Both go through a helper that t.Fatalf's. Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com> Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
…r fit Third round on rossoctl#1100. Both findings correct, and the first shows my last fix was wrong in the other direction. Measured, while the overlay is UP: handleKey forwards everything except ?/esc/q/g/G to helpVp.Update, and bubbles' viewport binds b/f to PageUp/PageDown -- so b/f, g/G and ↑↓/jk all move the overlay on every pane, usage included. With it CLOSED they move the pane, and there the coverage is ragged: pageActivePane has no paneUsage case, goTop/goBottom cover neither usage nor the two pickers, and on usage `b` is the breakdown cycle. So listing them under ANYWHERE claimed a pane behaviour that does not hold (the original defect), and gating the paging row off usage denied an overlay behaviour that does -- removing the row from the one pane whose 91-line body most needs it, on the strength of a pane fact that says nothing about what the key does while the reader is looking at the overlay. `g / G` was left advertised there through both rounds, which is the inconsistency this finding names. They are now their own group, MOVING AROUND THIS HELP, described as what they are: the overlay's own navigation, true on every pane, no gating. A note names the single pane where the closed-overlay meaning differs. panePages, anywhereKeysFor, pagingKeys and overlayOnlyKeys all go with it, and ANYWHERE is left holding only keys with one meaning -- so the rebinding check now needs NO exemption list, which is where the next `b` would have hidden. Two behavioural probes replace the gate: one presses f/b/G on all nine panes and asserts the overlay moved, one presses `b` on usage and `f` on a populated sessions table to pin both sides of the note's exception. thisPaneSuffix's claim that "the two forms can never disagree" was unenforced -- all nine titles hardcode the literal and paneName's TrimSuffix is a no-op without it, so a pane added unsuffixed would lose the active-pane marker silently. Asserted in TestHelpPurpose_EveryPaneHasOne. The scroll-hint floor test earned itself immediately: the new group took the body from 86 to 91 lines and it failed with the height to use (94) instead of going quiet the way the version it replaced did. Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com> Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
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Solid restructure, and the tests are the strongest part of it: the jump-section parity test presses the real key handlers across all nine panes instead of restating their switches, and the scroll-hint test's t.Skip — which would have silently taken three assertions with it the moment the body grew — is now an assertion that prints the height to use. Verified lastPaneID == paneUsage really is the highest paneID, so the p <= lastPaneID loops do cover all nine panes.
Two suggestions inline, neither blocking. Two nits that don't sit on changed lines:
keys.go:819still reads "note this key's own doc in globalKeys" — that symbol is deleted by this PR, and the doc it points at now lives injumpTargets.keys.goisn't in the diff, so it's here rather than inline.- The PR description predates the final commit: its After block lists the scroll keys under
ANYWHERE, and the "Sections ordered by…" bullet omitsMOVING AROUND THIS HELPentirely. The README is correct — only the PR body is stale.
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| // trailing row of the pane block above it rather than as the answer to "where can I | ||
| // go". Carried as the group's purpose, so the section holds its place in the | ||
| // overlay's shape on every pane while listing no key that does nothing. | ||
| func renderJumpSection(pane paneID, width int) string { |
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suggestion: while the overlay is up, handleKey routes everything except ?/esc/q/g/G to helpVp.Update (keys.go), so none of the four keys this section lists do anything from here — and the viewport binds u to half-page-up, so pressing the key the first row advertises scrolls the help rather than opening usage.
helpNavKeys carries a note for exactly the inverse case (these move the overlay, not the pane behind it). The symmetric note here — that the jump keys want the overlay closed first — would close the same gap on the section a lost reader is most likely to act on. The pinned footer says how to close, but not that closing is a prerequisite.
| // budget is the terminal minus the frame the panel draws around the viewport. | ||
| func (m *model) syncHelpViewport(resetScroll bool) { | ||
| body := helpBodyLines(m.pane) | ||
| frameW := styleBorder.GetHorizontalBorderSize() + helpPadX*2 |
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suggestion: styleBorder.GetHorizontalBorderSize() + helpPadX*2 is now computed here and again in helpViewportSize (help_overlay.go:706). The wrap budget and the viewport's width cap have to agree or the clipping this PR removes comes back — wrap wider than the cap and the viewport trims the overflow silently, which is the original defect.
A small helpFrameWidth() consumed by both would make it one derivation, in the same spirit as paneName and spendDrawerHostPane elsewhere in this change.
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A rework of the [?] overlay from a flat key dump into a pane map: per-pane purposes, a jump section gated on where each key actually works, the drill-path spine with a "you are here" marker, and — the actual bug fix — prose that wraps instead of being clipped, since syncHelpViewport's comment had claimed re-wrapping while helpBodyLines took no width at all.
I checked this out into a worktree and drove it rather than reading the diff alone.
| Claim in the PR body | Result |
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go test ./tui/ green |
✅ ok ... 8.090s |
gofmt clean |
✅ gofmt -l empty; go vet clean too |
TestRunExec_BeforeFirstStartRunsAndSaysWhatIsLost fails identically on base 84e16ef3 |
✅ reproduced on both — environmental (SSL_CERT_FILE), unrelated to this PR |
Mutation: EVERY PANE back to glyph rows |
✅ caught by EveryPaneSectionSpellsOutEveryDescription |
Mutation: $ listed regardless of the host rule |
✅ caught by JumpSectionMatchesTheKeysThatActuallyWork and PickerPanesExplainWhyThereIsNoJumpSection |
Mutation: drill path loses its [you are here] |
✅ caught by DrillPathIsInOrder (+ DrillPathLocatesEveryPane) |
Mutation: a pane group repeats P |
✅ caught by DoNotRepeatTheJumpKeys and RemappedKeys_MeanTheSameThingInEveryGroup |
My own mutation: make wrapWords width-blind |
✅ caught by WrapsProseToTheGivenWidth |
All four claimed mutations are caught by exactly the tests named, which is rarer than it should be.
I also probed the wrapping directly, since that is the behavioural fix: no rendered line exceeds its budget at widths 40/41/44/48/50/56/61/64/76/80 across all nine panes; the usage pane's (tokens/requests/errors/latency/cost) and (none/status/method/plugin/host enums survive intact at 40–50 columns — the exact defect the splitOnSlashes comment describes reintroducing one layer down; the nested EVERY PANE groups hold at indent 2; and below helpMinProseWidth the body clamps to 40 rather than degrading, as documented. proseBlock's long-prefix branch also behaves as claimed — I rendered INSIDE THE SPEND DRAWER · at 26 of 76 columns and it correctly drops to indented lines instead of hanging.
TestHelpBody_JumpSectionMatchesTheKeysThatActuallyWork genuinely presses keys through handleKey and asserts on m.pane / m.spend.expanded, and its comment records having fixed a version that called spendDrawerHost() — comparing the implementation against itself. That self-comparison is the tautology this class of test usually ships with, so catching it beforehand is worth noting.
One finding, non-blocking: the README enumerates three of six distinct jump cases while asserting the list is exhaustive. Details inline. The overlay itself is correct and test-pinned; only the hand-maintained prose drifted.
Also checked and fine: spendDrawerHostPane is a clean de-duplication (one copy of the rule, asked rather than restated as prose); splitOnSlashes joining with no separator is right, since a space would invent "(tokens/ requests/"; no new key bindings, no secrets, no Actions or dependency changes; the three repointed existing tests are genuine adaptations to the globalKeys split rather than weakenings. Comment density is well above repo norm but load-bearing — several comments record why a previous attempt was wrong (helpNavKeys, splitOnSlashes, renderJumpSection), which is the part that would otherwise get re-broken.
I could not find a correctness defect.
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| 2. **GO TO ANOTHER PANE** — the keys that leave, each naming the pane | ||
| it opens and what is on it. Rendered per pane and only where the | ||
| key actually works: all four (`u`, `P`, `C`, `$`) from the session | ||
| views, `C` alone on Usage, and on the two pickers the heading kept |
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suggestion — the enumeration claims to be exhaustive and is missing half its cases.
This bullet says the section is "rendered per pane and only where the key actually works", then lists three cases: all four from the session views, C alone on Usage, and the two pickers. Because the sentence's whole point is that the set is pane-specific, a reader takes the list as complete — so the three unlisted panes read as having no jump keys at all.
I dumped jumpsFrom across every pane on this branch:
| pane | offers |
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| NAMESPACES, PODS | — (the pickers, as documented) |
| SESSIONS, EVENTS, EVENT DETAIL | u P C $ (as documented) |
| PIPELINE | C $ |
| PLUGIN DETAIL | C $ |
| PLUGIN CATALOG | $ |
| USAGE | C (as documented) |
Six distinct cases, three documented. CodeRabbit flagged this independently and is right; its suggested wording covers it.
Worth noting where this lands, because it is the PR's own thesis: the old overlay advertised keys that did nothing on panes it never checked, and the fix was to derive availability per pane instead of writing prose beside a key (jumpsFrom, and "(not on usage)" giving way to spendDrawerHostPane). The README is now the one copy of that mapping still maintained by hand — the same shape of defect, one layer out. Nothing is broken for users: the overlay is correct and TestHelpBody_JumpSectionMatchesTheKeysThatActuallyWork holds it there. Only the prose can drift, and it has.
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[?]overlay answered "what does this key do" and never "what screens arethere, and how do I reach them". It is the only surface in abctl with no width or
height budget to defend, so it is where that second question belongs.
Before, over the sessions pane:
After, same pane at 76 columns:
Four defects drove the restructure:
OTHER PANESwas glyphs with no meanings.USAGE m w b s escsaid thepane has five keys and nothing about what any of them do, or what the pane is.
pipeline is the plugin chain, so choosing a pane meant visiting it.
namespaces → pods → sessions → events → detailis a spinewith usage/pipeline/catalog hanging off it. That shape — and the fact that
Escwalks it back — appeared nowhere.GLOBALwas a bin: the overlay's own scroll keys, the keys that openother panes, the spend drawer's
a/w(inert unless it is already up), and acaveat with an empty key column, under one heading claiming they all worked
everywhere. Three of those groups did not.
Key changes:
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GO TO ANOTHER PANE→THE DRILL PATH→ANYWHERE→INSIDE THE SPEND DRAWER→EVERY PANEin full.three do not share an allowlist (
u/Popen from the session views,Cfromanything past the pickers,
$follows the drawer's host rule). The old grouprendered identically everywhere, so on the namespaces picker it advertised three
dead keys and on usage a fourth. On the pickers it is replaced by a line saying
the panes open once you are connected.
spendDrawerHostPane()extracted fromspendDrawerHost()so the overlay asksthe drawer's real rule instead of carrying "(not on usage)" as prose. The
drawer's own section is gated the same way.
P,Canduare no longer advertised twice. They lived inglobalKeysand inside the pane groups, two copies free to disagree. They are now only in
jumpTargets, whose labels derive frompaneNameso a row cannot name a panesomething its own title does not.
syncHelpViewport's comment claimed it re-wrapped onresize while
helpBodyLinestook no width at all, so the overlay's longest line— the spend-scope caveat, ~100 columns — lost its second half on an 80-column
terminal and said nothing about it. Verified reflowing at 56.
g/Gand the viewport'sb/f/arrows/PgUp alreadyscroll, which is what makes the longer body navigable.
Cost, knowingly: the body grows from ~33 to ~75 lines, so the
[↑↓] scroll N%affordance is now up at nearly every terminal size.
Testing
go test ./tui/green;gofmtclean;golangci-lint --new-from-rev=upstream/main0 issues.
New tests in
help_pane_map_test.go, plus three existing tests repointed off thenow-split
globalKeys. The parity test drives the real key handlers across allnine panes rather than restating their switches, so the overlay cannot drift from
the allowlists.
Mutation-tested, each reverted after:
EVERY PANEback to glyph rowsEveryPaneSectionSpellsOutEveryDescription,WrapsProseToTheGivenWidth$listed regardless of the host ruleJumpSectionMatchesTheKeysThatActuallyWork,PickerPanesExplainWhyThereIsNoJumpSection[you are here]DrillPathIsInOrderPDoNotRepeatTheJumpKeys,RemappedKeys_MeanTheSameThingInEveryGroupPre-existing and unrelated:
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