justerm_core/term/selection.rs
1//! The selection surface: the gesture entry points, the three fixups that keep an
2//! anchor pointing at its content while the buffer moves under it, and two text
3//! extractors — `selection_text` for the selected run, and `accessible_text`, which
4//! reads the *active* buffer as one document (floored on the alt screen, like every
5//! other absolute walk) and lives here only because it reuses the same extraction path,
6//! not because it is a selection.
7//!
8//! The coordinate model — absolute `[scrollback ++ screen]` line indices, why they
9//! survive an ordinary scroll, and the three places they do not — is stated in
10//! [`crate::selection`]. Read it there; this module is the `Term` half of it.
11//!
12//! What is local to this site is the shape of that `Term` half. Three fixups
13//! (`selection_shift_below_margin`, `selection_evict_oldest`, `selection_rotate_region`)
14//! are `pub(super)` because the write path calls them from `term.rs` — each one beside
15//! its decoration-marker counterpart, since both are absolute anchors and a buffer
16//! motion moves them together. That pairing was weighed as a reason to merge the two
17//! surfaces into one module and rejected in #584; the grounds and the counter-evidence
18//! are recorded there, not re-argued here.
19//!
20//! `resolve` and `Resolved` stay private: every caller travelled into this module with
21//! them. The remaining entry points are public API and keep `pub fn` — an inherent
22//! impl's methods are reached through the type, not the module path, so a private child
23//! module does not hide them.
24
25use crate::selection::{Anchor, Selection, SelectionSpan, SelectionType, Side};
26
27use super::Term;
28
29/// A selection resolved to absolute-coordinate bounds, ready for text extraction
30/// or viewport-span projection. Columns are half-open (`from..to`).
31enum Resolved {
32 /// Char/Word/Line: a run that joins soft-wrapped rows. Columns apply to the
33 /// first/last line; middle lines are whole.
34 Linear {
35 start_line: usize,
36 from: usize,
37 end_line: usize,
38 to: usize,
39 },
40 /// Block: a rectangle — the same `from..to` columns on every row.
41 Block {
42 line0: usize,
43 line1: usize,
44 from: usize,
45 to: usize,
46 },
47}
48
49impl Term {
50 /// Begin a selection of `ty` at viewport `(row, col)`, `side`.
51 pub fn selection_begin(&mut self, row: usize, col: usize, side: Side, ty: SelectionType) {
52 let anchor = Anchor {
53 point: self.viewport_to_abs(row, col),
54 side,
55 };
56 self.selection = Some(Selection {
57 ty,
58 anchor,
59 focus: anchor,
60 });
61 }
62
63 /// Extend the live selection's focus to viewport `(row, col)`, `side`.
64 pub fn selection_extend(&mut self, row: usize, col: usize, side: Side) {
65 let focus = Anchor {
66 point: self.viewport_to_abs(row, col),
67 side,
68 };
69 if let Some(sel) = &mut self.selection {
70 sel.focus = focus;
71 }
72 }
73
74 /// Clear the selection.
75 pub fn selection_clear(&mut self) {
76 self.selection = None;
77 }
78
79 /// Shift selection endpoints anchored at absolute line `>= from` down by
80 /// one (#449): a top-anchored sub-region scroll grew scrollback while the
81 /// rows below the margin stayed fixed on screen, so their content's
82 /// absolute index rose +1 and the anchors must follow it. Endpoints above
83 /// `from` (in-region / scrollback content, whose indices are stable) are
84 /// untouched — per endpoint, so a selection straddling the margin keeps
85 /// both ends on their content.
86 pub(super) fn selection_shift_below_margin(&mut self, from: usize) {
87 if let Some(sel) = &mut self.selection {
88 if sel.anchor.point.line >= from {
89 sel.anchor.point.line += 1;
90 }
91 if sel.focus.point.line >= from {
92 sel.focus.point.line += 1;
93 }
94 }
95 }
96
97 /// Shift the selection up by one absolute line after the oldest history line
98 /// is evicted by the scrollback cap. An endpoint clamps to the new top; if
99 /// the whole selection was on the evicted line, it is cleared.
100 pub(super) fn selection_evict_oldest(&mut self) {
101 let Some((a, f)) = self
102 .selection
103 .as_ref()
104 .map(|s| (s.anchor.point.line, s.focus.point.line))
105 else {
106 return;
107 };
108 if a == 0 && f == 0 {
109 self.selection = None;
110 return;
111 }
112 if let Some(sel) = &mut self.selection {
113 sel.anchor.point.line = a.saturating_sub(1);
114 sel.focus.point.line = f.saturating_sub(1);
115 }
116 }
117
118 /// Rotate the selection within an in-screen scroll of absolute lines
119 /// `[top, bottom]`. `up` = content scrolled up (a line dropped at `top`);
120 /// otherwise down (dropped at `bottom`). Called once per scrolled line (delta
121 /// 1) by linefeed/RI/SU/SD/IL/DL.
122 ///
123 /// Mirrors alacritty `Selection::rotate`: an endpoint pushed past the region
124 /// edge is *clamped* to that edge (upper → `top`/col 0/Left, lower →
125 /// `bottom`/last col/Right; columns/side kept for Block), preserving the part
126 /// of the selection still in the buffer. The whole selection clears only on a
127 /// true *overtake* — the upper endpoint crossing the bottom while the lower
128 /// stays inside, or the lower falling above the upper (a selection wholly on
129 /// the dropped line). (#174: this replaced a policy that cleared on any
130 /// endpoint touching the dropped edge, dropping still-valid content.)
131 pub(super) fn selection_rotate_region(&mut self, top: usize, bottom: usize, up: bool) {
132 let (ty, anchor, focus) = match self.selection.as_ref() {
133 Some(s) => (s.ty, s.anchor, s.focus),
134 None => return,
135 };
136 let last_col = self.grid.cols().saturating_sub(1);
137 // Order the endpoints by buffer position; the upper (`start`) clamps to
138 // the region top, the lower (`end`) to the bottom. Remember which is the
139 // anchor so the result writes back to the right field.
140 let anchor_is_start = anchor.point <= focus.point;
141 let (mut start, mut end) = if anchor_is_start {
142 (anchor, focus)
143 } else {
144 (focus, anchor)
145 };
146
147 let (top_i, bottom_i) = (top as isize, bottom as isize);
148 // The endpoint's line after the one-line scroll, or `None` if it's outside
149 // the region (untouched). The dropped-edge line shifts *past* the edge (to
150 // be clamped/overtaken below), matching alacritty's `line - delta`.
151 let shift = |line: usize| -> Option<isize> {
152 if line < top || line > bottom {
153 None
154 } else if up {
155 Some(line as isize - 1)
156 } else {
157 Some(line as isize + 1)
158 }
159 };
160
161 // Upper endpoint: clamp to the region top when pushed above it; clear if it
162 // overtook the region bottom (down-scroll) while the lower stays inside.
163 if let Some(nl) = shift(start.point.line) {
164 if nl > bottom_i && (end.point.line as isize) <= bottom_i {
165 self.selection = None;
166 return;
167 }
168 if nl < top_i {
169 start.point.line = top;
170 if ty != SelectionType::Block {
171 start.point.col = 0;
172 start.side = Side::Left;
173 }
174 } else {
175 start.point.line = nl as usize;
176 }
177 }
178 // Lower endpoint: clear if it fell above the (rotated) upper endpoint;
179 // else clamp to the region bottom when pushed below it.
180 if let Some(nl) = shift(end.point.line) {
181 if nl < start.point.line as isize {
182 self.selection = None;
183 return;
184 }
185 if nl > bottom_i {
186 end.point.line = bottom;
187 if ty != SelectionType::Block {
188 end.point.col = last_col;
189 end.side = Side::Right;
190 }
191 } else {
192 end.point.line = nl as usize;
193 }
194 }
195
196 if let Some(sel) = &mut self.selection {
197 if anchor_is_start {
198 (sel.anchor, sel.focus) = (start, end);
199 } else {
200 (sel.anchor, sel.focus) = (end, start);
201 }
202 }
203 }
204
205 /// The selection projected onto the current viewport: one inclusive-column
206 /// span per visible row. Rows scrolled off-screen (above or below) are
207 /// dropped. Empty when nothing is selected. See `SelectionSpan`.
208 pub fn selection_range(&self) -> Vec<SelectionSpan> {
209 let Some(resolved) = self.resolve() else {
210 return Vec::new();
211 };
212 let rows = self.grid.rows();
213 // Absolute index of viewport row 0.
214 let top = self.scrollback.len() - self.display_offset;
215 let mut spans = Vec::new();
216
217 // Add a span for absolute `line` with inclusive cols `left..=right`, if
218 // the line is currently visible.
219 let mut push = |line: usize, left: usize, right: usize| {
220 if line >= top {
221 let row = line - top;
222 if row < rows {
223 spans.push(SelectionSpan { row, left, right });
224 }
225 }
226 };
227
228 match resolved {
229 Resolved::Linear {
230 start_line,
231 from,
232 end_line,
233 to,
234 } => {
235 for line in start_line..=end_line {
236 // Bound before reading, not after (#660). `abs_line` indexes the grid
237 // unguarded, so a line past the last visible row panics here — and the
238 // `push` closure below, which does apply the bound, never gets to run.
239 // The sibling projection already has this ordering right:
240 // `Term::match_spans` (`term/search.rs`) does `if row >= rows { break }`
241 // *before* its own `abs_line`, so this loop was the local outlier.
242 //
243 // This is not a clamp and truncates nothing observable: the function
244 // already drops off-screen rows silently and says so ("Empty when … the
245 // selection is fully scrolled off-screen"), so making the existing
246 // filter total converts a panic into the drop the contract promises.
247 // All three references bound at read time too — alacritty's
248 // `Selection::to_range` goes through `grid_clamp`, xterm.js's
249 // `translateBufferLineToString` returns `''` for a missing line, and
250 // ghostty clamps a pin's column against its own page.
251 //
252 // **Unreachable as this crate stands, and that is recorded rather than
253 // enjoyed.** With the anchor clamped at `viewport_to_abs` and the alt
254 // drop in `resize`, no path is known that reaches this loop with a line
255 // past the last row — measured: removing this bound reds no test in the
256 // suite. It is kept for the reason the `right - left + 1` widening in
257 // `serialize.rs` is kept (#582): it costs nothing, it makes the function
258 // total on its own rather than by trusting a guard two files away, and
259 // the walk it protects is one careless edit from an out-of-bounds index.
260 if line < top {
261 continue;
262 }
263 if line - top >= rows {
264 break;
265 }
266 let len = self.abs_line(line).len();
267 // Both ends, not one (ADR-0026 D3). `right_excl` was bounded and `left`
268 // was not, which is not half a guard: the raw end survives into the
269 // `right_excl > left` test below and drops the row instead of shortening
270 // it — silently, and only ever the *start* row, so a multi-row selection
271 // looks intact. Unreachable as this crate stands (#671 clamps the
272 // producer, `resize` re-clamps reflowed points, alt drops the selection),
273 // and kept for the reason the bound above it is kept: it makes the
274 // function total on its own rather than by trusting a guard two files
275 // away. `match_spans` is the same expression in `term/search.rs`, where
276 // the coordinate IS the consumer's and this is the only guard there is.
277 let left = if line == start_line { from.min(len) } else { 0 };
278 let right_excl = if line == end_line { to.min(len) } else { len };
279 if right_excl > left {
280 push(line, left, right_excl - 1);
281 }
282 }
283 }
284 Resolved::Block {
285 line0,
286 line1,
287 from,
288 to,
289 } => {
290 // The Block arm bounds against the grid rather than each line, because a
291 // rectangle is the same columns on every row by definition — `resolve`
292 // already clipped `to` with `.min(cols)`, so only `from` was open
293 // (ADR-0026 D3/D4). Same reachability as the Linear arm above.
294 let cols = self.grid.cols();
295 let from = from.min(cols);
296 if to > from {
297 for line in line0..=line1 {
298 // Per row, not once for the rectangle (#454): the same column range meets a
299 // pair at a different place on every row, so the widening cannot be hoisted
300 // out of this loop the way the rectangle's own bound can. A row where it
301 // fires is one column wider than the rectangle — the price of never
302 // painting half a glyph, and what all three references pay too (each
303 // applies its pair rule with no rectangular-selection exemption).
304 push(
305 line,
306 self.pair_start(line, from),
307 self.pair_end(line, to - 1),
308 );
309 }
310 }
311 }
312 }
313 spans
314 }
315
316 /// Resolve the live selection into absolute-coordinate bounds per type:
317 /// a `Linear` run (char/word/line, which join soft wraps) or a `Block`
318 /// rectangle. `None` when nothing is selected. Columns are half-open
319 /// (`from..to`). Shared by `selection_text` and `selection_range`.
320 fn resolve(&self) -> Option<Resolved> {
321 let sel = self.selection.as_ref()?;
322 let (start, end) = sel.ordered();
323 let resolved = match sel.ty {
324 SelectionType::Char => {
325 // Half-open columns: each side decides if its own cell is in.
326 let from = match start.side {
327 Side::Left => start.point.col,
328 Side::Right => start.point.col + 1,
329 };
330 let to = match end.side {
331 Side::Left => end.point.col,
332 Side::Right => end.point.col + 1,
333 };
334 Resolved::Linear {
335 start_line: start.point.line,
336 from,
337 end_line: end.point.line,
338 to,
339 }
340 }
341 SelectionType::Word => {
342 // Snap both ends to word boundaries (side is ignored).
343 let ws = self.word_start(start.point);
344 let we = self.word_end(end.point);
345 Resolved::Linear {
346 start_line: ws.line,
347 from: ws.col,
348 end_line: we.line,
349 to: we.col + 1,
350 }
351 }
352 SelectionType::Line => Resolved::Linear {
353 start_line: start.point.line,
354 from: 0,
355 end_line: end.point.line,
356 to: self.grid.cols(),
357 },
358 SelectionType::Block => {
359 // Rectangular: the same column range on every row. Columns come
360 // from the two anchors (min/max, with each edge's side).
361 let cols = self.grid.cols();
362 let (a, b) = (sel.anchor, sel.focus);
363 let (lcol, lside, rcol, rside) = if a.point.col <= b.point.col {
364 (a.point.col, a.side, b.point.col, b.side)
365 } else {
366 (b.point.col, b.side, a.point.col, a.side)
367 };
368 let from = match lside {
369 Side::Left => lcol,
370 Side::Right => lcol + 1,
371 };
372 let to = match rside {
373 Side::Left => rcol,
374 Side::Right => rcol + 1,
375 };
376 Resolved::Block {
377 line0: a.point.line.min(b.point.line),
378 line1: a.point.line.max(b.point.line),
379 from,
380 to: to.min(cols).max(from),
381 }
382 }
383 };
384 Some(match resolved {
385 Resolved::Linear {
386 start_line,
387 from,
388 end_line,
389 to,
390 } => {
391 // Both ends move OUTWARD, each on its own line: a Linear run's two ends can sit
392 // on different rows, and a pair never spans rows.
393 let from = self.pair_start(start_line, from);
394 let to = if to > 0 {
395 self.pair_end(end_line, to - 1) + 1
396 } else {
397 to
398 };
399 Resolved::Linear {
400 start_line,
401 from,
402 end_line,
403 to,
404 }
405 }
406 block => block,
407 })
408 }
409
410 /// Pull a range's **first** column left when it lands on a wide glyph's trailing spacer, so a
411 /// range can never start inside a pair (#454). Returns `col` unchanged otherwise.
412 ///
413 /// A width-2 glyph is one thing, and this crate's other answers already said so before this one
414 /// existed: a spacer extracts as nothing, so `selection_text` can only ever return the whole
415 /// glyph or none of it. A range that stopped between the halves therefore made the *highlight*
416 /// and the *copy* describe different text — measured on `"漢ab"`, anchoring on the spacer and
417 /// dragging right highlighted two cells of the glyph plus `a` while copying `a` alone.
418 ///
419 /// The pair must **agree**: a spacer is only pulled onto a cell that is actually its lead. That
420 /// is what keeps the degenerate shapes safe rather than merely unlikely — `Row::resize` narrows
421 /// straight through a pair and leaves a lead with no spacer, which ADR-0025 D4's scope records as
422 /// a *legal* buffer state and not a repair site.
423 ///
424 /// `is_wide_spacer` and not `is_spacer`: the latter also matches the wide-wrap artefact
425 /// (`C_LEADING_SPACER`), which marks a row's last column when a lead did not fit — a different
426 /// fact, and one whose partner is on another row.
427 pub(super) fn pair_start(&self, line: usize, col: usize) -> usize {
428 let cell = |c: usize| self.abs_line(line).get(c).copied();
429 if col > 0
430 && cell(col).is_some_and(|c| c.is_wide_spacer())
431 && cell(col - 1).is_some_and(|c| c.is_wide())
432 {
433 col - 1
434 } else {
435 col
436 }
437 }
438
439 /// The mirror of [`pair_start`](Self::pair_start): push a range's **last** column right when it
440 /// lands on a wide glyph's lead, so a range can never end inside a pair (#454). `col` is
441 /// *inclusive*, and the same agreement rule applies — a lead whose spacer was truncated away
442 /// ends the range where it sits.
443 ///
444 /// **The agreement half of both predicates is unobservable on this side, and that is recorded
445 /// rather than tested.** Weakening either one — `pair_end` accepting any right neighbour, or
446 /// `pair_start` any left one — reds no test in the suite, measured across all four call sites
447 /// (Linear, both Block arms, `match_spans`). Not because the tests are weak: the states they
448 /// exclude are a lead beside a non-spacer mid-row and a spacer with no lead, which are exactly
449 /// what #529 stopped the engine from producing, and the row-end case is already covered by the
450 /// bound. They are kept because the same rule in `justerm-renderer` (`pair::partner_at`) *is*
451 /// observable — it reads consumer-authored decoration rects and preedit-patched flags — and one
452 /// rule with two spellings is how two layers drift apart. Valid while core keeps both halves of a
453 /// pair in step (ADR-0025 D4).
454 pub(super) fn pair_end(&self, line: usize, col: usize) -> usize {
455 let cell = |c: usize| self.abs_line(line).get(c).copied();
456 if cell(col).is_some_and(|c| c.is_wide())
457 && cell(col + 1).is_some_and(|c| c.is_wide_spacer())
458 {
459 col + 1
460 } else {
461 col
462 }
463 }
464
465 /// The selected text (for copy), or `None` when nothing is selected.
466 pub fn selection_text(&self) -> Option<String> {
467 match self.resolve()? {
468 Resolved::Linear {
469 start_line,
470 from,
471 end_line,
472 to,
473 } => Some(self.extract_lines(&self.grid, start_line, from, end_line, to)),
474 Resolved::Block {
475 line0,
476 line1,
477 from,
478 to,
479 } => {
480 // Each row independently — no soft-wrap joining.
481 let mut out = String::new();
482 for line in line0..=line1 {
483 let hi = to.min(self.abs_line(line).len());
484 // The same per-row widening `selection_range` applies, and for the same reason:
485 // these two are the pair of observables #454 exists to keep in agreement, so a
486 // rule applied to one of them alone would rebuild the defect on the other.
487 let (lo, hi) = if hi > 0 {
488 (self.pair_start(line, from), self.pair_end(line, hi - 1) + 1)
489 } else {
490 (from, hi)
491 };
492 let mut seg = String::new();
493 for col in lo..hi {
494 self.append_cell(&self.grid, &mut seg, line, col);
495 }
496 out.push_str(seg.trim_end_matches(' '));
497 if line != line1 {
498 out.push('\n');
499 }
500 }
501 Some(out)
502 }
503 }
504 }
505
506 /// The whole buffer as one text document (#150): scrollback + screen assembled
507 /// into logical lines (soft-wrap joined, wide-spacers skipped, trailing blanks
508 /// trimmed at the logical end) — the accessible-view a screen reader reads as
509 /// a document, distinct from the viewport row tree (#119). Reuses the
510 /// selection extraction (`extract_lines`) over the full
511 /// range. On the alt screen only the alt buffer is shown — its "scrollback" is
512 /// the *primary* buffer's, not this app's — mirroring `viewport_logical_lines`'
513 /// alt floor.
514 pub fn accessible_text(&self) -> String {
515 let total = self.scrollback.len() + self.grid.rows();
516 if total == 0 {
517 return String::new();
518 }
519 let start = self.abs_floor();
520 let mut doc = self.extract_lines(&self.grid, start, 0, total - 1, usize::MAX);
521 // Trim *trailing* empty lines (blank screen rows below the content) — pure
522 // noise to a listener, and what a fresh screen would otherwise emit. Keep
523 // *internal* blank lines (paragraph breaks between command outputs) — a
524 // document wants those, unlike the viewport tree which drops all empties.
525 doc.truncate(doc.trim_end_matches('\n').len());
526 doc
527 }
528}