SelectList fixes:
- Use hardcoded visual width for arrow prefix instead of string length
which includes ANSI codes
- Truncate scroll indicator text to prevent exceeding terminal width
- Fixes crash when terminal is resized narrow and arrow keys are pressed
Thinking level fix:
- Restore thinking level even if it's "off" (removed !== "off" check)
- This ensures the thinking level selector shows the correct state on continue
Replace tabs with 3 spaces for consistent rendering and width calculation:
- Updated visibleWidth() to normalize tabs before measuring
- Updated Text and Markdown components to replace tabs when rendering
- Updated tool-execution display for read/write tools to replace tabs
This fixes background color rendering issues when displaying files with tab indentation.
- Show tool execution components immediately when tool calls appear in streaming
- Update components with streaming arguments as they come in
- Handle incomplete/partial arguments gracefully with optional chaining
- Fix error handling: tools now throw exceptions instead of returning error messages
- Fix bash abort handling to properly reject on abort/timeout
- Clean up error display
- Create UserMessageComponent - handles user messages with spacing
- Create AssistantMessageComponent - handles complete assistant messages
- Create ThinkingSelectorComponent - wraps selector with borders
- Add setSelectedIndex to SelectList for preselecting current level
- Simplify tui-renderer by using dedicated components
- Much cleaner architecture - each message type is now a component
- Add background color support to Text component
- Replace Markdown component with Text in ToolExecutionComponent
- Use chalk.bold for formatting instead of markdown syntax
- Remove unnecessary markdown parsing overhead
- Add /thinking slash command with autocomplete for setting reasoning levels (off, minimal, low, medium, high)
- Fix Ctrl+C behavior: remove hardcoded exit in TUI, let focused component handle it
- Add empty lines before and after tool execution components for better visual separation
- Fix stats rendering: display stats AFTER tool executions complete (matches web-ui behavior)
- Remove "Press Ctrl+C again to exit" message, show "(esc to interrupt)" in loader instead
- Add bash tool abort signal support with immediate SIGKILL on interrupt
- Make Text and Markdown components return empty arrays when no actual text content
- Add setCustomBgRgb() method to Markdown for dynamic background colors
- Added string-width library for proper terminal column width calculation
- Fixed wrapLine() to split by newlines before wrapping (like Text component)
- Fixed Loader interval leak by stopping before container removal
- Changed loader message from 'Loading...' to 'Working...'
- Remove old TUI implementation and components (LoadingAnimation, MarkdownComponent, TextComponent, TextEditor, WhitespaceComponent)
- Rename components-new to components with new API (Loader, Markdown, Text, Editor, Spacer)
- Move Text and Input components to separate files in src/components/
- Add render caching to Text component (similar to Markdown)
- Add proper ANSI code handling in Text component using stripVTControlCharacters
- Update coding-agent to use new TUI API (requires ProcessTerminal, uses custom Editor subclass for key handling)
- Remove old test files, keep only chat-simple.ts and virtual-terminal.ts
- Update README.md with new minimal API documentation
- Switch from tsc to tsgo for type checking
- Update package dependencies across monorepo
- Paste markers now show line count: [paste #1 +50 lines]
- Update replacement logic to handle both old and new marker formats
- Provides better visibility into paste size
- Add paddingX and paddingY support to Text component (default 1, 1)
- Fix padding calculation bug in both Text and Markdown
- Right padding now correctly fills to terminal width
- Remove unused Spacer import from chat-simple
- Enable bracketed paste mode for handling large pastes
- Fix editor duplicate line rendering bug at terminal width
- Add padding support to Markdown component (paddingX/Y)
- Add Spacer component for vertical spacing
- Update chat-simple with spacers between messages
- Implemented new renderLineBased method that properly handles scrollback boundaries
- Fixed ANSI code preservation in MarkdownComponent line wrapping
- Added comprehensive test to reproduce and verify the fix
- Root cause: PARTIAL rendering strategy couldn't position cursor in scrollback
- Solution: Component-agnostic line comparison with proper viewport boundary handling
Fixed rendering artifact where duplicate bottom borders appeared when components
dynamically shifted positions (e.g., Ctrl+C in agent clearing status container).
Root cause: Container wasn't reporting as "changed" when cleared (0 children),
causing differential renderer to skip re-rendering that area.
Solution: Container now tracks previousChildCount and reports changed when
child count changes, ensuring proper re-rendering when containers are cleared.
- Added comprehensive test reproducing the layout shift artifact
- Fixed Container to track and report child count changes
- All tests pass including new layout shift artifact test
The demos were not showing any output until user input because:
- Components were added before ui.start() was called
- addChild calls requestRender() but it returns early if \!isStarted
- So no initial render happened until user input triggered one
Now ui.start() triggers an initial render if components exist.
- New renderDifferentialSurgical method with three strategies:
- SURGICAL: Only update specific changed lines (1-2 lines per render)
- PARTIAL: Clear and re-render from first change when line counts change
- FULL: Clear scrollback and re-render all when changes above viewport
- Preserves all content in scrollback buffer correctly
- Reduces redraws from ~14 lines to ~1.3 lines for common updates
- All 24 tests pass including scrollback preservation tests
- Massive performance improvement: 90% reduction in unnecessary redraws
- renderDifferential now correctly handles content that exceeds viewport
- When changes are above viewport, do full re-render with scrollback clear
- When changes are in viewport, do partial re-render from change point
- All tests pass, correctly preserves 100 items in scrollback
- Issue: Still re-renders too much (entire tail from first change)
- Create Terminal interface abstracting stdin/stdout operations for dependency injection
- Implement ProcessTerminal for production use with process.stdin/stdout
- Implement VirtualTerminal using @xterm/headless for accurate terminal emulation in tests
- Fix TypeScript imports for @xterm/headless module
- Move all component files to src/components/ directory for better organization
- Add comprehensive test suite with async/await patterns for proper render timing
- Fix critical TUI differential rendering bug when components grow in height
- Issue: Old content wasn't properly cleared when component line count increased
- Solution: Clear each old line individually before redrawing, ensure cursor at line start
- Add test verifying terminal content preservation and text editor growth behavior
- Update tsconfig.json to include test files in type checking
- Add benchmark test comparing single vs double buffer performance
The implementation successfully reduces flicker by only updating changed lines
rather than clearing entire sections. Both TUI implementations maintain the
same interface for backward compatibility.
- Set up npm workspaces for three packages: pi-tui, pi-agent, and pi (pods)
- Implemented dual TypeScript configuration:
- Root tsconfig.json with path mappings for development and type checking
- Package-specific tsconfig.build.json for clean production builds
- Configured lockstep versioning with sync script for inter-package dependencies
- Added comprehensive documentation for development and publishing workflows
- All packages at version 0.5.0 ready for npm publishing
