fix(tui): fold rare prompt glyphs in the preview so they stop rendering as boxes

A beta tester photographed claude's `❯` prompt and its `⏵⏵` bypass-permissions
marker rendering as empty boxes in the preview pane. Their font has no coverage
for those codepoints while drawing `·`, `─`, `│` and `▶` perfectly.

The glyph TIER cannot help here. It answers "can this terminal do Unicode at
all", which is a locale question, and it correctly says yes for exactly the
terminals this affects. Coverage is per-glyph and undetectable from inside the
process, so the handful of rare glyphs CLIs use as chrome are folded to the
ASCII arrows they already look like, and everything a plain font does render is
left alone.

Scoped tightly: the preview only, never the TUI's own chrome, and skipped
entirely at the `nerd` tier where the user has declared a font that can draw
anything. The table is short and every entry was seen as tofu in a real
terminal rather than guessed at. The fold is length-preserving, so the preview
pane's column arithmetic is unaffected.
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Codeman maintainer
2026-08-22 14:13:58 +02:00
parent 84f8a8a2fe
commit e7b7e90a1b
3 changed files with 74 additions and 2 deletions
+7 -2
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@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ import chalk from 'chalk';
import { palette, table, tint, type Tone } from '../cli-style.js';
import { CODEMAN_INSTANCE, resolveTmuxSocketName } from '../config/instance.js';
import { getErrorMessage } from '../types/api.js';
import { dropSeveredEscape, toDisplayLines } from './tui-ansi.js';
import { dropSeveredEscape, foldPreviewGlyphs, toDisplayLines } from './tui-ansi.js';
import { approvalAnswerForKey, newApprovalIds } from './tui-approvals.js';
import { composerScroll, composerStep, composerText, createComposer, type TuiComposerState } from './tui-composer.js';
import { formatAwayDigest } from './tui-digest.js';
@@ -1315,7 +1315,12 @@ class TuiApp {
try {
const raw = await this.client.fetchTerminalTail(sessionId, PREVIEW_TAIL_BYTES);
if (this.previewSessionId !== sessionId) return;
const lines = toDisplayLines(dropSeveredEscape(raw)).slice(-PREVIEW_MAX_LINES);
const tail = toDisplayLines(dropSeveredEscape(raw)).slice(-PREVIEW_MAX_LINES);
// A nerd font can draw anything; every other terminal gets the rare
// prompt glyphs folded to the arrows they already look like, because a
// font's per-glyph coverage cannot be detected from in here and tofu is
// worse than an ASCII arrow.
const lines = this.glyphTier === 'nerd' ? tail : tail.map(foldPreviewGlyphs);
// An identical tail is what the backoff counts; anything new resets it, so
// a pane that starts printing again is back to one read a second.
if (this.applyPreview({ sessionId, lines })) this.previewQuiet = 0;