The rule "show ~/project rather than /home/<user>/project" had three
implementations in the frontend, two of them platform-specific in opposite
directions, so each looked correct to whoever wrote it.
- The Run menu's Recent Sessions rows matched /home/<user>/ only. On macOS
nothing was stripped, so every row spent its first ~19 characters on an
identical /Users/<user>/ prefix and the left-to-right ellipsis removed the
tail that identifies the row. That is #273, reported by @jordan8037310, who
also traced why the menu's 250px cap made it worse: the width was chosen on
the assumption the abbreviation had run.
- The case-manage list matched /Users/<user> only, the mirror image, so on a
Linux host no case path was ever abbreviated there. Unreported.
Both now call _shortenHomePath(), which was already correct for both layouts
and already used by the Resume list, Cmd+K, the desktop home rail and the phone
overview. Its regex collapses to one alternation with a lookahead, so a path
that is exactly $HOME renders "~" instead of being left raw, matching what the
case-manage list used to do on macOS.
test/home-path-abbreviation.test.ts pins the helper on both layouts and the
rendered case-manage label, and fails if a fourth copy of the pattern appears in
src/web/public. The Run-menu guard counts helper calls rather than pinning a
source line, so it survives the row restructure in #274.
test/run-mode-ui.test.ts gains a _shortenHomePath stub: its harness loads
session-ui.js without terminal-ui.js, which the real app never does.
Verified against an isolated instance with 27 real cases and 50 history rows:
27 of 27 case paths and 17 of 20 Run menu rows abbreviate, the other 3 are
/tmp paths that correctly stay raw, tooltips keep the full path, no page errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
