Follow-up cleanup for the 7 confirmed findings from a review of #163. The
dominant theme: #163 hard-renamed the public composable useTerminalSize ->
useWindowSize (no alias) but left stale references to the dead name in
user-facing docs.
- README.md + packages/runtime/README.md: the composable tables named the
removed `useTerminalSize()` (root README even framed the sole real export
`useWindowSize` as an "Ink-compat alias" — now inverted). Point both at
`useWindowSize()`.
- .agents/docs/ink-divergences.md: two vue-tui-side references to
`useTerminalSize` (the shallowRef "object of refs" example and the
"composables throw outside a render tree" list) -> `useWindowSize`. The
Ink-side `useWindowSize -> WindowSize` naming example is left unchanged.
- .agents/docs/accessibility-api.md: the intro cited three "blessed entries"
but only aria-camelCase is one; `renderToString` layout-only and the
`useWindowSize` name are now Ink parity, not divergences. Reword.
- .agents/docs/api-contract.md: tighten the `/internal` wording — the test
does assert one tripwire on `/internal`, so "not covered by
public-api.test.ts" was imprecise.
- public-api.test.ts / render-to-string.test.tsx: the public renderToString
dropped the `isScreenReaderEnabled` option but (unlike the sibling
`ScreenReaderOptions` type) had no compile-time guard. Replace an obscure,
fmt-fragile type-indexing guard with a readable call-site `@ts-expect-error`
in render-to-string.test.tsx; re-adding the option to the public
RenderToStringOptions makes the directive unused and fails `tsc --noEmit`.
- Rename terminal-size.test.tsx / .sequential.test.tsx ->
window-size.test.tsx / .sequential.test.tsx to match the migrated symbol.
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* refactor(runtime)!: rename AnimationOptions to UseAnimationOptions
Align the useAnimation options type with VueUse's UseXOptions convention, matching its sibling composable options bags (UseInputOptions / UsePasteOptions / UseFocusOptions) and the already-correct UseAnimationReturn. Hard rename, no deprecated alias — done while the package is pre-1.0 (0.0.x), so no stability break.
Recorded under "Public composable naming follows Vue conventions" in .agents/docs/ink-divergences.md. Surfaced by the public-API audit.
BREAKING CHANGE: the exported type AnimationOptions is renamed to UseAnimationOptions; update `import { type AnimationOptions }` to `import { type UseAnimationOptions }`.
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* refactor(runtime)!: tighten public API to Ink + record aria decision & alignment principle
Public-API audit follow-ups. Where vue-tui had drifted from Ink with no real Vue reason, align to Ink; reduce speculative surface; and record decisions in .agents/docs/ink-divergences.md.
- renderToString: drop the public `isScreenReaderEnabled` option (Ink's public renderToString is layout-only). The SR-capable variant moves to `@vue-tui/runtime/internal` as `renderToStringWithScreenReader` for the accessibility test suite; SR output is unchanged.
- useTerminalSize -> useWindowSize: drop the invented name + alias, align to Ink's `useWindowSize`. The reactive ref return shape is unchanged (shallowRef divergence still applies).
- DevState/DevErrorInfo: move from the public barrel to `@vue-tui/runtime/internal` (internal HMR types, no public consumer; Ink exposes no HMR types).
- docs(divergences): add a standing "Why align to Ink — and when not to" principle (alignment is a means to reduce bugs, not an end; Vue idiom + reasonableness outrank parity); record the aria-props camelCase decision with its run-verified type-safety boundary; stamp the rawMode-default and measureElement-$el entries with their KEEP decisions.
BREAKING CHANGE: removed public exports `useTerminalSize`, `DevState`, `DevErrorInfo`, and `renderToString`'s `isScreenReaderEnabled` option. Use `useWindowSize`; import HMR types from `@vue-tui/runtime/internal`.
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* refactor(runtime)!: move renderScreenReaderOutput to /internal-only
The screen-reader linearizer (ported from Ink's internal
`renderNodeToScreenReaderOutput`) was exported from the public barrel, but it
was never usefully public: its only parameter type `TuiNode` and the
node-construction primitives needed to build one are not public, so a public
consumer could not name or construct the argument. Ink keeps its counterpart
module-internal; we match that.
`renderScreenReaderOutput` + `ScreenReaderOptions` now live only in
`@vue-tui/runtime/internal` (already re-exported there). The live SR machinery
(render, the internal renderToStringWithScreenReader, the <Static> channel)
imports from the source module and is unaffected; public SR output is reached
via the mount `isScreenReaderEnabled` option.
public-api.test.ts: drop it from the public-members list; add a runtime guard
(absent from public, present on /internal) plus a compile-time @ts-expect-error
guard that the `ScreenReaderOptions` type cannot be re-added to the public
barrel.
Docs: new .agents/docs/accessibility-api.md (aria + SR design) and
api-contract.md (public surface = exports + their user-consumable types;
/internal is not the contract); resolve the open item and cross-link from
ink-divergences.md.
BREAKING CHANGE: renderScreenReaderOutput and ScreenReaderOptions are no longer
exported from @vue-tui/runtime; import from @vue-tui/runtime/internal if needed.
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* test(runtime-tests): snapshot the exact public value-export set
Upgrade public-api.test.ts from "documented members present + targeted
negatives" to an exhaustive snapshot of the exact runtime value-export surface
of `@vue-tui/runtime`: adding, removing, or renaming any value export now fails
the test, so every public-surface change must be a deliberate edit to the list.
Type-only exports are erased at runtime and cannot be enumerated, so the type
surface stays guarded individually (the `@ts-expect-error` ScreenReaderOptions
guard); api-contract.md is updated to state this boundary precisely.
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A thrown non-Error whose .message is a string (throw {message:'x'})
displayed 'x' in the ErrorOverview but rejected waitUntilExit() with
new Error(String(value)) = '[object Object]' — display and reject
disagreed. Introduce one messageForNonError(value) helper (string
.message else String(value)) and feed it to BOTH the overview header
and the two non-Error reject-wrap sites, so the shown and rejected
messages can never drift. Overview output is byte-identical (the helper
is the prior inline logic extracted); real-Error, cross-realm, and
no-synthetic-stack paths are unchanged.
Blesses vue-tui's uniform show-the-error-and-reject behavior for any
thrown value (audit e17): Ink instead resolves waitUntilExit() with a
truthy thrown value and silently hangs on a falsy throw — abnormal, so
vue-tui deliberately diverges. Ledger entry rewritten to the full
run-verified scope with Maintainer decision (2026-06-12): KEEP.
Red-first: a consistency test asserting throw {message:'objmsg'} shows
AND rejects 'objmsg'.
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A focused input's caret zombied to the bottom-left corner whenever an
unrelated repaint (spinner tick, log line, progress bar) committed
without re-declaring the cursor: the active cursor was gated on a
per-commit dirty/reference change, so an unrelated commit dropped it.
Real terminal programs that own an edit point re-place the caret there
every frame (vim emits an absolute CUP after each repaint, readline
re-lands the buffer offset on SIGWINCH, nano homes to its edit cell).
Match that: the runtime now re-emits the last-declared caret at the end
of every commit until the declaration changes or is cleared, so the
caret survives unrelated repaints in all component topologies. The
position is clamped to the visible region (D5) and a cleared
declaration emits no caret, so teardown still hands the cursor back.
This is a deliberate divergence FROM Ink, which re-asserts only when
the cursor's React component re-renders and so zombies the caret in
sibling/leaf topology too (run-verified). Aligning to Ink reduces bugs
only when Ink is correct; here matching Ink would preserve abnormal
behavior. Overrides the prior 2026-06-01 KEEP, whose rationale (avoid
diverging from Ink in the sibling direction) was overturned by running
real terminal apps. The {x,y} setCursorPosition API is unchanged (it
remains the IME primitive); the fix is an internal per-commit re-emit.
Red-first: a real-TTY PTY test with sibling-topology spinner state
asserts the spinner-only frame ends with the caret-restore suffix.
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The test asserted a new committed frame within a fixed 1200ms sleep.
Since the trailing commit re-arms per deferred call (lastCall+wait,
Ink-aligned, #154), the margin races the ~1s cadence on a starved
4-core CI runner — it failed at the boundary (expected 4 to be greater
than 4) on an unrelated docs PR. Poll for the next commit under a
generous deadline instead: the contract is that commits keep flowing,
not that they land inside a hand-tuned sleep.
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The commit scheduler armed one fixed trailing timer at the start of a
throttle window, firing the trailing commit at windowStart+wait. Ink's
es-toolkit throttle re-arms on every throttled call: trailing fires at
lastCall+wait. Deterministic probe at maxFps=10 (updates t0/t0+43/
t0+86): Ink trailing median 192.5ms, vue-tui 103.6ms (audit e29).
Mirror the observable timing of es-toolkit's throttle: leading commit
when no window is active, per-call trailing re-arm (lastCall+wait), and
the maxWait edge (a call a full window after the first deferral commits
synchronously) so sustained updates keep the ~wait cadence instead of
debounce-starving. Resize cancellation (a separate blessed divergence)
is preserved: the post-fix cancel probe is byte-identical.
Red test is the discriminating multi-deferred-call shape: a single-
deferred-call test goes green under the wrong firstDeferredCall anchor.
Post-fix probes land at 188.3-189.2ms, inside Ink's 188.4-195.0 band;
CI=true vp run ci passes alongside vp run ready.
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The instance-reuse guard set a per-app skippedMount flag that was never
reset, so one guarded mount() call permanently disabled the app's own
teardown. Three run-confirmed wedges (audit e18), all absent in Ink:
- an owner double-firing mount() on its own live stdout kept painting
after unmount() and leaked its registry entry
- an app that once hit the guard could never unmount a later legitimate
mount on a free stdout
- an app live on stream A that merely targeted another app's busy
stream B became unkillable on A
Delete the flag; teardown()/resolveExit() now consult the actually
wired state (mountedAppContext / mountedAsOwner), so a guarded call is
inert for that call only. The blessed inert-no-op divergence from Ink's
reuse-and-rerender is unchanged; the ledger entry is reworded to the
call-scoped semantics.
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A [Vue warn] emitted during the initial mount (e.g. the missing-render-
function warn from a root setup() throw) escaped the stderr filter
because mount() installed the console patch only after originalMount.
Ink patches in its constructor before the first React render
(ink.tsx:435-436); move the install before originalMount to match.
The mount-throw catch already restores the console via teardown().
Verified red-first against real Ink v7.0.4 (audit e10): Ink's stderr
stays empty for a render-throwing component; vue-tui's initial-mount
warn reached a real PTY before this fix.
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Addresses PR review: the containing block for an absolutely-positioned child
is the **padding box** (inside the borders), not the "border-box". Verified by
running yoga (an abs child at top:0/left:0 insets by the border only, never by
padding — confirmed across border/padding combos) and the real Ink/vue-tui
renderers (X lands at the inner-border edge, byte-identical in both).
- Tighten the regression test: exact-frame assertions instead of `toContain`,
including a border+padding case that distinguishes the padding box from the
content box — the assertion that would have caught the original wording slip
(presence-only assertions could not).
- Correct "containing block (border-box)" -> "padding box (inside the borders)"
in paint.ts, layout-guards.ts, and ink-divergences.md. (The unrelated
"border-box-like" *sizing* notes are correct and left as-is.)
No runtime behavior change; the code already used yoga's computed position.
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The zero-content-area guard (layout-guards + paint.ts) suppressed ALL
children of a Box whose inner content rect collapsed to zero, including
position:"absolute" children. An absolutely-positioned child is placed
against the containing block (border-box), not the content rect, so Ink
v7.0.4 paints it (verified by running real Ink: a w=2 h=2 single-border
box with an absolute child renders "┌┐#\n└X"); vue-tui dropped it,
rendering "┌┐#\n└┘".
- layout-guards: exempt POSITION_TYPE_ABSOLUTE children from the hide loop
so they keep their layout.
- paint: move overflow-clip setup above the zero-content early-return and,
in that branch, paint only absolute children (still clipped by
overflow:hidden, matching Ink) while keeping in-flow children suppressed
(the blessed degenerate-box divergence).
Flow-child suppression and overflow:hidden clipping both stay Ink-aligned
(verified byte-identical against real Ink). Known limitation: an absolute
descendant nested under a suppressed in-flow child is still dropped (the
flow ancestor is removed from layout) — scoped to direct absolute children.
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Align several user-observable runtime behaviors with the Ink v7.0.4 parity audit: live input/paste handler refs, duplicate focus id registration, string-only color props, noninteractive empty final newlines, cross-realm error headers, and contained zero-content box layout/paint.
Document Vue-specific KEEP decisions and require Conventional Commits for commit messages and PR titles.
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Pausing (isActive→false) in the SAME synchronous batch as an interval change froze
the frame at 0 instead of the last live frame. vue-tui split Ink's single render-time
`shouldReset` into TWO `flush:"sync"` watchers; sync fires once-per-mutation, so
`interval.value = X; isActive.value = false` ran the interval watcher first (while
still active) → erroneous start() zeroed the frame, before the isActive watcher
stop()'d.
Replace them with ONE `flush:"post"` watcher on `[isActive, interval]` that coalesces
the batch and fires once with the final values, mirroring Ink's
`shouldReset = isActive && (intervalChanged || becameActive)` (use-animation.ts:77-96):
paused → stop() (freeze, no reset); active + (becameActive || intervalChanged) →
start(). `immediate:true` keeps the initial mount synchronous (one subscribe, no
double-subscribe).
flush:"post" was verified to fire in the BLESSED standalone (no-component) fallback:
Vue's post-flush queue flushes on any reactive mutation's microtask, independent of
component updates.
Adds tests: batched pause+interval (both orders) freezes; resume zeros then advances
at the new interval; same-interval rerender does not reset; and two standalone
(no-render-tree) cases.
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* fix(runtime): align debug-mode unmount byte stream to Ink
In DEBUG mode (non-interactive) vue-tui's teardown emitted neither a final-frame
re-emit nor a trailing newline, while Ink emits both (ink.tsx:749-762 settleThrottle
re-emit + ink.tsx:812-819 `debug ? '\n' : lastOutput + '\n'`). So for a debug app
that renders "Hello" once, Ink's byte stream is "HelloHello\n" but vue-tui's was
just "Hello" — a divergence that matters when porting Ink debug snapshots / CI logs.
- Fire the final-frame re-emit `mountedCommit()` for debug too (was interactive-only).
- In the non-interactive teardown write, emit a bare "\n" for debug (Ink parity),
keeping the non-debug `lastFrame + "\n"` branch byte-identical.
Because the @vue-tui/testing render() helper captures debug commits via an internal
frame sink, gate the debug commit's two `frameSink?.(...)` forwards on
`!teardownStarted` so the teardown re-emit (a stdout byte-parity FLUSH, not a render)
does not append a spurious entry to the helper's live `frames[]`. `teardownStarted`
is set at the top of teardown() before the re-emit, so this covers EVERY teardown
route (unmount / cleanup / exit / Ctrl+C / signal / process.exit). Both `stdout.write`
calls stay unconditional, preserving byte parity.
Adds a PTY byte-parity test (asserts "HelloHello\r\n") and a testing-helper test
covering all teardown routes (frames.length stable, incl. <Static>).
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* test: drop CI-fragile exitOnCtrlC frames-teardown case
The Ctrl+C case timed out in CI (waitUntilExit never resolved — stdin/raw-mode
timing is environment-fragile), while passing locally. Ctrl+C routes through the
SAME exit-driven teardown path as programmatic useApp().exit()
(emitInput → appContext.exit() → teardown()), which the remaining exit() cases
already cover, so removing it loses no teardown-route coverage of the
!teardownStarted frame-sink gate.
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`<Text wrap="hard">` measured at width 0 dropped one blank row per interior word
boundary, so it measured a shorter height than Ink. Ink's wrap-text.ts uses
`{hard:true, wordWrap:false}` for `hard` mode and `{hard:true}` for `wrap` mode;
vue-tui's width-0 path (wrapZeroWidthAnsi) always used the `wrap` options
regardless of mode.
Thread the wrap mode into wrapZeroWidthAnsi and select
`{hard:true, trim:false, wordWrap:false}` for `hard` (vs `{hard:true, trim:false}`
for `wrap`) at width 0, matching Ink. The non-zero `hard` branch already used
wordWrap:false, so this makes the width-0 path consistent with it. The re-styling
loop is unchanged (extra blank rows pass through as empty strings).
width-0 hard "a b c" now measures 8 rows (['','a',' ','','b',' ','','c']) like
Ink, not 6. `wrap` mode and all non-zero widths are byte-identical.
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vue-tui hid the terminal cursor EAGERLY at mount regardless of content, so an
interactive app whose root renders nothing emitted `\x1b[?25l` and hid the
user's cursor. Ink hides LAZILY (log-update, on the first render that writes)
and skips log-update entirely for an empty frame, so an empty app emits zero
cursor escapes.
Remove the eager mount-time hide and rely on log-update's lazy hide. That alone
was insufficient: an empty frame becomes "\n", and the old commit gate
`willRender(outputToRender) || isCursorDirty()` was true for "\n", so log-update
(and its lazy hide) was still reached. Align the outer commit gate to Ink's
exact condition (ink.tsx:1094) `output !== frameState.lastOutput || isCursorDirty()`,
comparing the RAW frame; on an empty first commit both are "" so log-update is
never reached. `willRender` is retained only for the inner BSU/ESU wrap gate.
Verified via PTY: empty app = 0 hides; non-empty = 1 lazy hide; useCursor =
hide-then-show within one render (SHOW last, cursor positioned). alt-screen,
screen-reader, and non-TTY cursor behavior unchanged.
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A bare `measureElement()` called inside `watchPostEffect` reads layout BEFORE
the commit scheduler's post-flush `calculateLayout` runs, so it returns an
uncomputed value (NaN for computed dimensions), not the current size. The JSDoc
previously recommended that exact broken call site.
Align the guidance to vue-tui's real post-flush timing: defer the read with
`nextTick(() => measureElement(ref.value))` — the pattern `useBoxMetrics` itself
uses — or read from an input/timer callback that fires after a flush; prefer
`useBoxMetrics` for reactive metrics. Also correct the stale claim that a
pre-layout read returns `{0,0}` (it returns NaN for an attached-but-uncomputed
node; `{0,0}` is only the detached case).
Adds a characterization test pinning bare-watchPostEffect = NaN vs
nextTick = real width (80), guarding against regressing to the old advice.
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Re-verified every ledger entry against Ink v7.0.4. Fixes: MI5 (remove false
"residual false-child divergence", verified by running Ink), MI3 (Model-Implied
-> Intentional), VI2 (-> Non-Behavioral), VI3 (-> Intentional), and an
error-overview test comment (Ink renders blank error.message, not String(value)).
ID4 verified accurate and left unchanged.
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A second mount() on a live stdout stays a warn + no-op (no behavior change).
This reframes it as a deliberate, maintainer-blessed choice instead of the
vaguely-justified entry it was.
- warning (render.ts): rewrite the stderr message to state the situation plus
the two recovery paths (update reactive state, or unmount() the existing app
first), replacing the old "unsupported / call unmount() first" phrasing.
- divergence doc: rewrite the Why with the real rationale (it is a misuse path;
Ink warns it is unsupported too; vue-tui fails safe by keeping the live app
and warning; there is no clean public path to Ink's reuse-and-rerender under
the createApp model). Move the entry from "Vue-Idiomatic Choices" to
"Intentional Divergence Choices"; record "Maintainer decision: KEEP"; tighten
the inert-handle wording (unmount() only settles its own exit promise).
- tests: retarget the instance-reuse-guard assertions to the new warning text,
including a negative assertion that previously matched a stale substring.
Verified: vp run ready (integration 1104 + PTY 123 passing, lint/type/build).
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Audit of the "byte-identical reconciler/runtime mechanics" subsection, each entry
verified against vue-tui + Ink v7.0.4 source.
Doc:
- Rewrite the TuiComment/Transform entry cause-first (Vue materializes a comment
placeholder where React renders nothing -> vue makes it inert) for clarity.
- Fix the commit-throttle figure: it is `ceil(1000/maxFps)` = 34ms at the default
maxFps=30, not "~32ms". The 32 was vue's own dead fallback constant, never the
production value; Ink has no 32 either.
- Drop the keyed-lists (LIS) entry: it restated the section header and guarded no
vue-authored code (patchKeyedChildren is upstream Vue).
- Drop the wrapText-truncate and animation-scheduler entries: both are vue-tui
implementation choices, not Vue-vs-React framework differences, and both are
already explained by their in-code comments.
Code (no behavior change; verified by `vp run ready`):
- Remove the dead `DEFAULT_THROTTLE_MS = 32` fallback in scheduler.ts. Production
always passes throttleMs (render.ts derives it from maxFps) and the immediate
path never reads it, so the 32 fallback never gated a frame. Make throttleMs
required; render.ts always passes it (0 when unthrottled).
- Tighten the animation-scheduler ceil comment (drop the "busy-loop" overstatement;
the fractional-delay truncation it describes is real and keeps the Math.ceil).
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Regression tests for behaviors the audit found correct-but-unpinned, so the
suite is a strict superset of Ink:
- A07: two <Static> regions both render (the additive divergence)
- B04: Static render-prop index = absolute index across appends; container
vertical padding adds blank rows to the static frame
- B11: lazy raw-mode acquire/release under rawMode:'auto' (the path the
'always' default masks)
- B19: child useCursor unmount emits the cursor-hide escape (stream-level)
- B20: animation interval 0/negative clamps to 1ms (normalizeInterval unit) and
advances without busy-hang
- B21/B28: INK_SCREEN_READER env auto-detection + useIsScreenReaderEnabled
true-path (env tests isolated in a *.sequential file per the global-state rule)
- B29: renderToString serves useCursor/usePaste/useTerminalSize/useAnimation/
useBoxMetrics as inert no-ops (don't throw)
- B30: dedicated columnGap/rowGap props + their removal-reset
Test-only; no production changes. Codex-reviewed for non-vacuousness, Ink
correctness, and process-global isolation.
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Ink's colorize throws on a chalk-modifier-name backgroundColor (e.g. "bold":
'bold' in chalk but chalk.bgBold is undefined -> "chalk.bgBold is not a
function"); vue-tui degraded to bare text. Align: validate backgroundColor at
component render (Text + Box own bg + drawn border edges) so the throw is caught
by the error boundary, not the post-flush paint pass (a throw there wedges Vue's
scheduler — cf. borderStyle #124). Detection mirrors Ink exactly: only the
in-chalk-but-no-bg-method case throws; valid colors / hex / ansi256 / rgb /
[r,g,b] / non-chalk strings and foreground modifiers (color="bold" still bolds)
are unaffected. Border bgs are gated to Ink's render-border conditions
(borderStyle + drawn edge + perEdge ?? general); empty/hidden elements don't throw.
Since Ink throws lazily at paint (with layout/squash info) while vue must validate
eagerly at render, a few degenerate cases (content-area<=0 box, degenerate
top/bottom border, nested-empty text) over-throw on the invalid modifier input —
documented in code as architecturally irreducible. Removes the A12 entry from
ink-divergences.md.
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Ink's applyDisplayStyles hides any present `display` that isn't 'flex'
(DISPLAY_NONE); vue-tui hid only on exact 'none', leaving off-spec values
(reachable via TS-bypass — the prop type is 'flex'|'none') visible. Align: the
yoga display setter now hides any present (non-null) value except 'flex',
matching Ink even for non-string junk (display={5}). The blessed A19 divergence
is preserved — a removed/undefined display (null) still resets to the visible
default (Vue can't distinguish display={undefined} from an omitted prop).
Removes the now-obsolete A21 entry from .agents/docs/ink-divergences.md (the
A19 "removed display resets to visible" entry remains).
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Two more teardown stdout writes (besides the paste-disable fixed in #126) were
gated only on isTTY, which stays cached-truthy after destroy()/end() — so a
teardown on an already-gone stdout threw ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED: log-update's
show/hide-cursor restore and kitty-keyboard's async disable-kitty write. Both
now also require !destroyed && !writableEnded, matching Ink's canWriteToStdout
(App.tsx:620, ink.tsx:792). The writeBestEffort-routed restores (alt-screen
exit, non-interactive last frame, final commit) were already safe.
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The `\x1b[?2004l` paste-OFF write at teardown was gated only on `stdout.isTTY`,
which stays cached-truthy after a stream is destroy()ed/end()ed — so a teardown
where stdout is already gone threw `ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED`. Route both `?2004l`
sites (the setBracketedPasteMode disable branch and the dispose teardown
backstop) through a `disableBracketedPaste()` helper that gates on
`isTTY && !destroyed && !writableEnded`, matching Ink's `canWriteToStdout`
(App.tsx:620/633). The live-stdout happy path is unchanged.
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Ink's setTextNodeValue (dom.ts) coerces any non-string to String(text) before
storing it, on both the create and update paths; vue-tui stored the raw value.
Coerce at both host text sinks — createTextLeaf (create) and setText (update) —
matching Ink. Reachable only via a TS-bypass (Vue stringifies text/number
children before the host op), so it's a defensive safety-net; typeof-guarded so
string values are stored unchanged.
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An unknown borderStyle name (reachable only via a TS-bypass — the prop type is
the cli-boxes keyof union) silently degraded to no border (and wrongly reserved
a 1-cell inset). Ink throws a TypeError on it. Align to that "throw on unknown"
contract by validating in the Box component's render, so the throw is caught by
vue-tui's error boundary (onErrorCaptured -> ErrorOverview), like any other
render error — rather than in paint, where a throw would unwind through Vue's
post-flush commit and wedge the scheduler.
The check resolves cliBoxes[borderStyle] and throws unless it's a genuine
BoxStyle (an object with a string `top` glyph), so unknown names, the cli-boxes
CJS-interop `default` self-key, and inherited prototype names (toString,
constructor) all throw; valid names, false/undefined (no border), and a custom
BoxStyle object are unaffected.
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Two coupled changes, both about debug mode (which @vue-tui/testing's render()
is built on):
1. Debug stdout is now byte-identical to Ink v7.0.4: the debug commit branch
re-emits the FULL accumulated <Static> history every frame (not just the
per-commit delta), writes every frame unconditionally (no FrameWriter
dedup), and drops the synthetic trailing "\n" — matching Ink's
`fullStaticOutput + output` (ink.tsx:558, output.ts has no trailing newline).
2. The test frame-capture no longer reverse-engineers frames out of stdout.
The runtime exposes an internal, per-app frame sink (INTERNAL_FRAME_SINK,
a Symbol from @vue-tui/runtime/internal; the public MountOptions type is
untouched). The debug branch hands each committed frame to the sink,
mirroring the stdout writes. @vue-tui/testing's render() builds
frames[]/lastFrame() from the sink instead of sniffing stdout.
Why: an isTTY:true test stdout (which render() needs for the interactive resize
listener) lets isTTY-gated escapes — bracket-paste \x1b[?2004h/l from usePaste —
land in a stdout-sniffing capture and pollute frames[]. Capturing at the source
makes frames[] provably content-only regardless of which composables a test
mounts, while public debug stdout stays byte-exact to Ink (escapes still written,
not debug-gated). The test surface stays cleanly tiered (Ink's model): render()
= content; createApp+debug:false = in-process control sequences; PTY = real
terminal. '' floor, verbatim SGR/OSC8, frames[] multi-frame/static semantics,
and terminal.resize() are all preserved.
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useStdin().setRawMode(false) on a non-TTY stdin silently no-opped while
setRawMode(true) threw — an asymmetry. Ink's handleSetRawMode throws before
the enable/disable split (App.tsx:315), so both directions throw on an
unsupported stdin, and its test asserts both mount-enable and unmount-disable
throw without ever calling stdin.setRawMode.
Move the isRawModeSupported guard into the public setRawMode wrapper (via a
shared throwRawModeUnsupported helper reusing the existing messages) so both
true/false throw. Internal acquireRawMode/releaseRawMode are unchanged —
composables (useInput/useFocus/usePaste) call those directly, so teardown
release stays a no-op and an unsupported-stdin app still unmounts cleanly.
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Add a `rawMode?: 'always' | 'auto'` mount option (replacing the dead, unwired
`rawMode?: boolean`), defaulting to 'always'.
- 'always' (default): the App takes a lifetime raw-mode hold at mount (gated on
interactive + a TTY stdin), so raw mode is held for the whole run regardless of
which input composables are mounted. Keystrokes never echo into the rendered
frame on a no-input/streaming screen, and Ctrl+C is handled consistently on
every screen (e.g. it reaches an agent's "interrupt generation" handler instead
of becoming a kernel SIGINT). Because owning raw mode ref()s stdin, the app
stays alive until an explicit unmount()/exit() — it does NOT auto-exit when idle.
- 'auto': Ink's original lazy model — raw mode is acquired only while a useInput /
useFocus / usePaste is mounted, so a no-input screen returns to cooked mode and a
no-input app auto-exits. The opt-out for inline / render-and-exit tools.
This is a deliberate divergence from Ink (the cross-framework norm — Bubble Tea,
Textual, Ratatui, prompt_toolkit all own the terminal for the program lifetime;
Ink's hook-driven model is the outlier). Documented in
.agents/docs/ink-divergences.md.
Implementation: the App holds a `lifetimeFloor` ref via holdRawModeForLifetime();
input composables stack above it. The per-consumer clearInputState is re-based to
the floor so a buffered partial escape (e.g. a lone ESC at a screen transition)
can't bleed into the next consumer — cleared both when the last consumer releases
and when the first consumer re-acquires above the floor (covers same-tick swaps
AND a delayed idle→input transition). The data listener and raw toggle stay on
until teardown, where dispose() releases the floor ref (raw disabled + stdin
unref'd exactly once).
Tests: rawMode-lifecycle ('always' holds raw with no input; 'auto' stays cooked;
no mid-session oscillation; no partial-escape bleed across a swap or an idle gap);
PTY exit-rawmode-always (a no-input 'always' app stays alive and exits on Ctrl+C).
The 6 auto-exit PTY fixtures are pinned to 'auto' (they model render-and-exit).
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The terminal raw-mode toggle is refcounted per-stdin (a WeakMap shared across
controllers) so one app's unmount can't drop raw mode while another still needs
it — vue's deliberate improvement over Ink, whose per-App counts let the first
unmount disable raw for everyone. But the "data" input listener was ALSO gated
on that shared refcount, so when two apps (separate createApp/stdout) shared one
stdin, only the first app's handleData ever attached and the second was
permanently deaf — and it didn't even self-heal when the first unmounted (Ink at
least does, via its per-App readable listeners).
Make the "data" listener (and its synchronous clearInputState cleanup: parser
reset, pending-escape flush, listener detach) PER-CONTROLLER, gated on this
controller's own localRefs, while keeping the raw-mode enable/disable on the
shared refcount. Because vue uses the "data" (push) event, every listener gets
every chunk, so both apps now receive input — strictly better than Ink's
"readable" (pull) model where the first-registered listener drains the buffer.
Single-app behavior is byte-identical: with one controller localRefs and the
shared refs move 1:1, so the same-tick swap (parser reset + listener re-attach)
fires at exactly the same moments as before.
Test: two apps sharing one stdin both receive a keystroke, and the second keeps
receiving after the first unmounts while raw mode stays enabled (shared ref);
raw mode disables only when the last app unmounts.
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Three small raw-mode/focus corrections, each aligned to Ink v7.0.4 and
covered by a test (TDD red→green where reachable).
1. Raw mode left ON after a synchronous signal exit (Ctrl+C). The terminal
raw-mode disable is deferred to a microtask (so it survives same-tick
component swaps), but on the signal-exit path teardown(true) re-raises the
signal synchronously without draining microtasks, so the disable never ran
and the shell stopped echoing after Ctrl+C. dispose() now forces the disable
SYNCHRONOUSLY when raw mode is no longer owned (state.refs === 0 and either
this dispose released the last ref or a release left pendingDisable set),
mirroring Ink's unmount-cleanup guard `rawModeEnabledCount > 0 ||
pendingDisableRawModeRef.current` (App.tsx:626-631). The disable stays gated
on the SHARED refcount, so a multi-app teardown can't disable while another
app still holds raw mode.
2. Same-tick useInput swap re-issued setRawMode(true) + stdin.ref() and leaked
a libuv ref (the deferred disable bailed on refs>0 and never unref'd). Added
a pendingDisable flag to RawModeState mirroring Ink's pendingDisableRawModeRef
(App.tsx:331-344): on re-acquire while a disable is pending, skip
ref()/setRawMode(true) and cancel the queued disable.
3. focusNext/focusPrevious start-index logic factored into a shared
startSearchIndex() helper so the two directions stay symmetric. Behavior is
identical for all reachable states; it additionally folds the (unreachable
while the activeId invariant holds) "activeId not in list" case into the
same branch instead of diverging per-direction.
Tests: raw-mode-lifecycle.test.tsx (swap no-op, replacement still receives
input, synchronous teardown disable); programmatic-focus.test.tsx (no-active
first/last targeting + active-focus step/wrap via the manager API).
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Final round-2 test-only batch (behaviors already at parity with Ink reconciler.tsx,
measure-text.tsx, flex-*.tsx, overflow.tsx, build-output.ts):
- build-output: every package.json export target resolves on disk (runtime/cli/testing)
+ the .d.mts declaration sibling for the typed libraries (runtime/testing, not cli).
- reconciler: keyed insert-between [a,c]→[a,b,c]; replace a colored <Text> child with a
plain string; setElementText A→B + the text-context guard; marginLeft removal reset.
- measure: empty <Text> contributes height 0 in a column; non-zero left (marginLeft=5 →
5,1); measureTextNatural trailing/only-newline heights.
- flex: alignSelf='auto' == default + alignSelf removal resets to AUTO; the two
space-around known-yoga-bug cases converted from test.skip to test.fails (they assert
the DESIRED output and flip to a real failure if yoga ever fixes the bug); the documented
flexDirection/flexWrap removal-reset divergence (was comment-only) now has a visual lock.
- overflow: out-of-bounds writes produce Ink's exact clipped frame (sparse past-width cell,
filtered hole) — tightened from toBeDefined().
- components: inline + top-level non-empty fragment in <Text>; the previously-skipped
ST-terminated OSC-8 hyperlink hard-wrap now passes ('abcde\nfghij') — un-skipped as a lock.
Codex-reviewed GENUINE.
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Round-2 test-only locks (behaviors already at parity with Ink test/render.tsx,
exit.tsx, errors.tsx, hooks.tsx):
- resize re-render reflows content to the new width (exact narrowed round-border bytes)
+ consecutive width decreases each clear; onRender fires exactly once per rerender
(tightened from `>`); onMounted runs before the first frame write callback (#596);
bsu/esu wraps a trailing throttled content change, and an unchanged trailing rerender
emits neither; patchConsole puts a log above the live frame.
- exit-with-static #397 non-duplication (A/B/C each render once) — the fixture is fixed
to function slots so no [Vue warn] pollutes stdout; exit-with-thrown-error via run()'s
strict exit-0 gate; DEV is inert; the process stays alive ~500ms while raw mode is held.
- raw mode is disabled on the thrown-error cleanup path; the unhandledRejection test moved
to a *.sequential file (it mutates a process-global listener).
- alternate-screen enter sequence hides the cursor; useStdout().write() preserves the
frame with the external write ordered above it.
Codex-reviewed GENUINE.
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Round-2 test-only locks (behaviors already at parity with Ink):
- parse-keypress (Ink parse-keypress.ts): Ctrl+F1–F4 (\x1b[1;5P/Q/R/S → f1–f4 ctrl),
unmapped ctrl (\x1b[1;5I/X → name '' ctrl), Shift+F1 (\x1b[1;2P → f1 shift).
- terminal-size (Ink terminal-resize.tsx): 0-columns → positive fallback;
resize-listener returns to baseline on unmount; env.LINES rows fallback (a .sequential
file — mutates process.env/stdout; deletes absent env vars in teardown to avoid pollution).
- use-animation (Ink use-animation.tsx, a .sequential file with deterministic fake timers):
newly mounted/activated same-interval animations don't inherit elapsed time
(firstFrame - secondFrame === 1); a re-render with an unchanged interval doesn't reset
the frame (forced via an unrelated reactive dep — a same-value assign is a Vue no-op);
reset is a stable reference across re-renders (collected in the render fn).
- use-input: plain arrows assert key.meta === false (Ink's `&& !key.meta` gate).
Codex-reviewed; the same-value-no-reset (was vacuous) and env teardown (left "undefined")
were tightened per its notes.
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Round-2 test-only locks (behaviors already at parity):
- focus (Ink test/focus.tsx): activeId resets to null on Esc, updates on programmatic
focus(id), resets on unmount of the focused item, is null initially then Tab lands on
first; Esc does NOT clear focus while focus management is disabled; focus(id) targets
a deactivated (isActive=false) item (membership-only, ignoring isActive).
- screen-reader (Ink test/screen-reader.tsx) via the live renderToString component path:
aria-label-only Text/Box, display:none subtree skipped, column>row space-join,
single-box aria-states (checked/selected/multiselectable + multi-state ', '-join),
role-only button, Transform accessibilityLabel replaces children.
Codex-reviewed GENUINE (expected strings match vue output + Ink intent).
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Round-2 test-only locks tightening lax `.toContain()` to exact equality, mirroring
Ink's `t.is` assertions (all behaviors already at parity):
- cursor-helpers: buildCursorSuffix/buildReturnToBottom/buildReturnToBottomPrefix/
buildCursorOnlySequence exact full output + show/hide cursor constant literals.
- render-to-string: column "Line 1\nLine 2", paddingLeft " Padded", a byte-exact
single-border 20-wide frame, and byte-exact gap wrap ("A B\n\nC") + column ("A\n\nB")
(the trimLines live tests can't catch trailing-space regressions).
- text: OSC-8 link exact bytes; a new RIS/ESC-c strip test (the existing test only
covered the ESC#8 leg).
- box-in-text validation: the exact "Text string \"…\" must be rendered inside <Text>
component" message via anchored regex (catches extra prefix/suffix, not just substring).
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The round-2 parity audit surfaced ~15 places where vue-tui deliberately differs from
Ink v7.0.4 (verified against Ink source, not invented). Document them so they aren't
re-"fixed" back into Ink's behavior:
Public API surface: useFocusManager().activeId is null (reactive ShallowRef) not
undefined (+ lock test); second mount() on a live stdout is an inert no-op vs Ink
reusing the instance; bare-string package exports vs an explicit types condition.
Additive (strict superset): RGB [r,g,b] tuples on every color prop (Ink string-only,
throws on an array); backgroundColor=chalk-modifier-name degrades to bare text (Ink
throws); useAnimation outside a tree drives a real scheduler; measureElement/
useBoxMetrics also accept a Vue component ref via $el; renderToString accepts
isScreenReaderEnabled; narrowing resize cancels the redundant trailing clearTerminal.
Framework-semantic (Vue ≠ React): an off-spec display value stays visible (Ink hides
any non-'flex'); out-of-type flex/align values are forwarded not defensively coerced
(only flexShrink — flexGrow matches Ink; reachable only via TS-bypass); duplicate
explicit-id useFocus dedups to one entry; the terminal-bound composables fail fast
outside a tree (useBoxMetrics/useAnimation degrade); a setup()-throw emits a dev-only
[Vue warn]. Plus wrapText truncate's per-line short-circuit and the scheduler's
ceil'd delay under reconciler mechanics.
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The whole-op horizontal clip skip used `x >= clipH.x2`, dropping a write op that
starts exactly AT the right clip edge. Ink's skip is strict `x > clip.x2`
(output.ts:188): at x === clip.x2 it proceeds to clip each line to empty
(sliceAnsi 0,0) and runs the transformers on the empty slice. A transformer that
produces output from empty input (e.g. `() => '中'`, `s => s + 'X'`) emits at the
clip edge in Ink but was short-circuited away in vue. Changed `>=` to `>`. Normal
and identity ops at x === clip.x2 still emit nothing (empty slice →
characters.length === 0 → skip); the inner per-line clip already used strict `>`.
Tests lock the transform-on-empty + append-on-empty cases (Ink " 中" / " X")
and the identity/plain controls (""). Also drops a stale comment reference to the
deleted parity-ledger.md.
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is-in-ci feeds the `interactive` default (render.ts:503) and shouldSynchronize
(write-synchronized.ts:9). vue pinned ^1.0.0 vs Ink's ^2.0.0, whose CI-detection
formula differs: v1 scans for any `CI_*`-prefixed var and gates the whole expression
on CI not being falsy; v2 independently checks `CI` and `CONTINUOUS_INTEGRATION` and
drops the prefix scan. The common cases (local CI=false, GitHub CI=true) are identical
on both, so the suite and CI are unaffected; only edge env configs diverge. Bumping to
^2.0.0 makes vue's CI detection byte-identical to Ink's. Locked by a test
(CI=false + CONTINUOUS_INTEGRATION=true → true, which v1 would report false).
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Ink's focusNext returns `findNextFocusable(...) ?? firstFocusableId` (App.tsx:455-487),
so it ALWAYS reassigns activeId — to the next active, the first active, or undefined
when NO focusable is active. vue's focusNext/focusPrevious only did `if (next)
setActive(next)`, so when no focusable was active (reachable via focus(id) pinning an
isActive=false item) the stale activeId was left in place.
Call setActive(findNextActive(...)) unconditionally — a null result now clears the
stale activeId (and fires the blur notification Ink also fires), matching Ink. Normal
Tab cycling among active items is unchanged (findNextActive already wraps to the
first/last active, equivalent to Ink's `next ?? first`). The focusables.length===0
guard is kept (activeId is already null at 0 focusables via remove(), and it avoids a
%0 in the wrap arithmetic).
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Adds the screen-reader locking tests omitted from #105 (the file was not staged):
a childless <Transform accessibilityLabel> emits nothing in SR mode (Ink's null
guard wins over the label), and a control proving the WITH-children label path is
unchanged. The behavior itself shipped in #105.
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Ink's <Transform> returns null (no node) when children are undefined/null, and
that guard runs BEFORE the accessibilityLabel substitution (Transform.tsx:28-30).
vue always created a "transform" host node, so:
- an empty <Transform> in a flex `gap` row consumed a gap slot Ink never adds (P13); and
- a childless <Transform accessibilityLabel> emitted the label even though Ink's
null guard wins over it (P19).
Add the null-children guard at the top of the render fn. Vue materializes a bare
null/false/undefined/v-if=false child as a single Comment vnode and cannot tell them
apart, so the predicate treats the whole group as "no children" (slot undefined OR
every vnode is a Comment) — matching Ink for the common `{null}`/`{cond ? x : null}`
idioms and keeping <Transform> consistent with vue-tui's documented comment-anchor
model (every other component already omits a false/v-if child). An empty-string ({''},
a Text vnode) or JSX empty array ({[]}, a Fragment) still renders, matching Ink.
This deliberately diverges from Ink only for a literal {false} / {cond && x}-false
child (React's false !== null → Ink renders an empty gap-slot node); documented in
ink-divergences.md and locked by a test, since Vue physically cannot distinguish it
from null.
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normalizeInterval rounded the interval (Math.round), so a 60fps interval (16.67ms)
became 17ms and 8.4ms became 8ms — drifting frame=floor(elapsed/interval) and the
scheduler's nextDueTime over time. Ink's normalizeAnimationInterval
(use-animation.ts:147-151) does not round. Removed Math.round; the clamp
(>=1, <=MAX_TIMER_INTERVAL) is unchanged and the scheduler already ceil()s the
setTimeout delay so a fractional interval doesn't busy-loop.
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