opencode's TUI enables mouse tracking. tmux runs with `mouse off`, so it passes
the PANE's DECSETs straight through to the tmux client, and the browser's xterm
obeyed them: `mouseTrackingMode` flipped to 'any' (measured 62 none / 18 any over
16s) and xterm then reported DRAGS to the TUI instead of selecting locally.
In that state marking text produced no selection at all, so copy-on-select
silently did nothing (5/5 dead drags while `any`), and the obvious fallback —
Ctrl+C — is opencode's `app_exit`, which ended the session. Both were hit here.
opencode needs the middle strip: alt-screen toggles AND mouse DECSETs, but NOT
`3J` (a TUI is not a `clear` consumer). That is `altScreen: 'strip-mux-and-mouse'`
+ `isMuxMouseStripMode`, applied to the live stream (session.ts) and the replay
of a stored buffer, now the exported `stripReplayBuffer()` (session-routes.ts).
The browser's mouse-report gate keeps no mode list any more:
`_shouldReportMouseToCli()` reads only `cliMouseTracking`. The server sets that
flag solely in the mouse-strip branch (`_recordStrippedMouseMode`, one caller),
so it can only be true for a mode whose DECSETs are stripped, and whichever modes
the registry strips, the browser follows. Clicks still reach opencode through the
hand-encoded SGR tap it gates.
The `altScreen` JSDoc gets the decision table its three independent choices need
(alt-screen / `3J` / mouse DECSETs), written from the predicates, including that
`preserve` and `strip-mux-only` take the same runtime row. The table is pinned for
every stock CLI, with and without tmux, on both the live strip and the replay
strip, plus the published flag (test/claude-scrollback-strip.test.ts), so the two
halves cannot drift and a mis-ordered replay branch fails.
Docs and comments that still said opencode keeps its mouse reporting or gets the
narrow strip are updated (CLAUDE.md, architecture-invariants, scrollback and
copy-shortcut plans, session.ts, terminal-ui.js).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
opencode's TUI runs on the ALTERNATE SCREEN (measured on 1.18.31: tmux
`alternate_on=1`, `history_size=0`), so tmux keeps no history for the pane and
the browser's normal buffer never grows past one screen (`baseY === 0`). The
plain wheel therefore scrolled a buffer with nothing in it — dead in every
opencode tab, on desktop and touch alike.
opencode is not a forwarding candidate: it IGNORES SGR wheel reports (six
`\x1b[<64;…M` reports against an idle pane left the capture byte-identical),
but it does page its own transcript on PageUp/PageDown (`messages_page_up/down`,
verified on the same pane). The hollow-buffer rescue already sends exactly those
keys — it was just gated to `claude`. Widen the gate to opencode so the wheel
and touch gestures reach the CLI's own transcript instead of a no-op.
Every other mode stays out: shell/pi own real terminal scrollback, and
codex/gemini/antigravity/grok/deepseek/omp page-key behaviour is unverified
(docs/scrollback-fix-plan.md).
Test: test/terminal-scroll-routing.test.ts — new opencode case (Red before the
fix, Green after); the "real local scrollback is untouched" case now also pins
antigravity as not-paged.
DodgyBadger reported a completely dead wheel in codex tabs (#227 comment)
while the scrollbar drag worked, and the [scroll] line confirmed the
branch: forward-sgr with 967 rows of healthy local scrollback unused.
Measured against codex-cli 0.147.0 in a bare tmux: codex never enables
mouse tracking (mouse_any_flag=0), runs an inline viewport
(alternate_on=0) and pushes its transcript into the terminal's own
scrollback (history_size grows), and SGR wheel reports written to its
pane change nothing at all. Hand-encoded SGR taps are no-ops too, so
they stay (harmless), which means click-to-position is merely
unavailable there rather than damaging.
_shouldForwardWheelToApp now returns true for claude >= 2.1.187 and
nothing else; codex falls to the local-scrollback path like
shell/gemini/opencode, which is the same history the scrollbar drag was
already reaching. The claude-only PageUp fallback is untouched.
Verified in Chromium against a live codex session on an isolated
instance: routing logs local-scrollback, the viewport moves 39 -> 4 and
zero bytes go to the PTY.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 1.12.0 retest on #205 reported it still broken in two shapes: a wheel that
did nothing at all on Firefox/macOS (while Fn+Up paged back through intact
text), and iPhone history that went back a little, repeated blocks and got
worse the further up it went. Both come from a Claude pane's LOCAL buffer being
hollow: tmux keeps no history for a repaint-mode pane (history_size 0), so
xterm holds only replayed repaint frames.
1. The scroll-to-top full=1 re-pull now refuses a DOWNGRADE. It resets the
terminal and rewrites it from the capture, which is a win when tmux holds
more than the browser, but for a repaint-mode pane that capture is roughly
ONE frame and the rewrite deleted history mid-scroll. Measured A/B on a live
pane, same gesture: guard off collapses 341 rows to 42, guard on preserves
all 341. _replayWouldShrinkBuffer() estimates the capture's rendered rows
(escapes stripped, capture-pane -J re-wrapping accounted for) and skips the
rewrite when it is more than one screen short; a refused session's cooldown
goes from 4s to 60s so a hollow pane stops re-fetching megabytes.
2. A false forwarding gate on a Claude session no longer means a dead gesture.
Under a triple guard (claude mode, gate false, baseY 0), wheel and touch
travel becomes coalesced PageUp/PageDown through the same 40ms queue as the
SGR reports, at half a screen of travel per page key. Shift is excluded: it
keeps meaning "local scrollback".
3. getClaudeCliVersion() no longer caches FAILURE. It stored null on any
exception and guarded on !== undefined, so one timed-out or PATH-starved
probe at the first Claude session start disabled wheel-forwarding for every
Claude session until the server restarted, which fits a report of breakage on
phone, tablet and laptop at once. Success is still cached for the process
lifetime; failures retry with a 1/2/4 up to 15min backoff, and the policy is
a pure function so the semantics are testable without spawning claude.
4. The terminalWheelLocalScrollback footgun is handled by pairing rather than
scoping: the setting keeps meaning exactly what it says, and fix 2 catches
the case where "local" is empty. The App Settings tooltip now says to leave
it off for Claude/Codex sessions.
5. _logScrollRouting() prints one line per session per distinct decision:
forward-sgr / page-keys / local-scrollback / repull-refused-downgrade, with
mode, cliVersion, the opt-out state, mouse tracking and local scrollback
depth. #205 ran two rounds of remote guesswork over questions that line
answers directly.
Verified end to end against a real isolated instance (own data dir and tmux
socket) with real wheel events: forwarding still sends SGR reports, the opt-out
now sends real PageUp/PageDown where the wheel was dead, a tab-switch collapse
(401 rows to 44) is still fully recovered by the re-pull (back to 401), and a
seeded 341-row Claude buffer survives the same gesture that destroys it with the
guard disabled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update the full-scrollback replay invariant (per-session full=1 Set plus
the scroll-to-top re-pull), add a new invariants section covering the two
strip flavors and the wheel/touch forwarding rules, sync the CLAUDE.md
Key Patterns bullets, and commit the fix plan with a status header
describing what shipped and where it deliberately diverged (narrow strip
plus re-pull instead of tmux mouse on; viewport-at-bottom gate dropped).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
