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Fixes #833

internal/tui/file_view.go previously read files from disk synchronously and performed Chroma syntax highlighting directly inside the View() render loop on every frame, causing UI stutter and unbounded allocations on large files.

Key Changes

  • Decoupled disk I/O and syntax highlighting into an asynchronous cache keyed by filepath, file size, modtime, and theme.
  • Enforced hard memory limits: 4,000 maximum rendered lines, 1 MiB total byte cap, and 4 KiB max line length.
  • Invalidates the cache cleanly upon theme switches (applyTheme).
  • Added unit and concurrency tests (internal/tui/file_view_test.go) validating 0 additional I/O on repeated View() calls and clean truncation under -race.

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  • New Features

    • File views now load asynchronously, keeping the interface responsive.
    • Added loading and error states for file content.
    • File content refreshes automatically after resizing, theme changes, edits, and related updates.
    • Improved caching and validation help ensure current content is displayed.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected syntax highlighting backgrounds for themed file views.
    • Prevented stale cached content from being reused after theme changes.
    • Improved handling of late file-load results, rapid updates, and reopened views.

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Full-file TUI rendering now uses bounded asynchronous loads, theme-aware cache generations, request validation, and reloads after content, resize, git, and theme changes. Tests cover cache behavior, lifecycle transitions, and stale completion rejection.

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Asynchronous file-view loading

Layer / File(s) Summary
Asynchronous loading core
internal/tui/file_view.go, internal/tui/syntax_highlight.go
Full-file loads carry request sequences and snapshot parameters. Rendering uses bounded, theme-aware cached results and shows loading or error content when needed.
Update and invalidation integration
internal/tui/model.go, internal/tui/theme_select.go
The model applies fileViewLoadedMsg and reloads active full-file views after resize, changed-file tool results, git sweeps, background-color changes, and theme changes. Theme changes clear the file-view cache.
Lifecycle and cache regression coverage
internal/tui/file_view_test.go, internal/tui/export_test.go, internal/tui/files_git_sweep_test.go
Tests cover bounded reads, cache reuse and eviction, concurrent variants, asynchronous loading, stale results, theme generations, reload triggers, deletion errors, reopen behavior, and command returns.

Reflection compatibility cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pointer kind compatibility
internal/config/unknownfields.go
derefType now uses reflect.Pointer instead of reflect.Ptr.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant FileView
  participant loadFileViewCmd
  participant FileSystem
  participant Model
  User->>FileView: open full-file view
  FileView->>loadFileViewCmd: start asynchronous load
  loadFileViewCmd->>FileSystem: read and highlight bounded content
  FileSystem-->>loadFileViewCmd: content or error
  loadFileViewCmd-->>Model: fileViewLoadedMsg with request sequence
  Model->>FileView: apply matching result or retry
  FileView-->>User: render content, loading placeholder, or error
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Suggested reviewers: anandh8x, gnanam1990, vasanthdev2004

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 83f37

The PR changes full-file rendering to asynchronous cached snapshots with truncation and invalidation. At the current head, an open view can remain stale after file edits, remain stuck loading after theme changes or for empty files, and display an older-width result after rapid resizing; some regression tests also would not reliably catch these failures. The PR is not merge-ready until these issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning Most changes support issue #833, but the unrelated replacement of deprecated reflect.Ptr in internal/config/unknownfields.go is outside the full-file view performance scope. Remove the internal/config/unknownfields.go change or move it to a separate pull request with its own issue and scope.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 67.92% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 53 functions across 8 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: bounded file reads, LRU rendering cache, and size limits for the full-file view.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #833. Full-file loading and highlighting are asynchronous, cache entries use file and theme identity, output and line sizes are bounded, cache invalidation is handled, and re…
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The changes satisfy issue #833. Full-file loading and highlighting are asynchronous, cache entries use file and theme identity, output and line sizes are bounded, cache invalidation is handled, and regression and concurrency tests cover the required behavior.

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internal/tui/file_view_test.go (1)

509-537: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a concurrent getOrRender test and assert LRU order.

Two gaps in this test:

  1. No test exercises defaultFileViewCache from multiple goroutines. The new code adds fileViewRenderCache.mu plus a per-entry rendersMu, and the PR description claims concurrency tests. Start several goroutines that call getOrRender on the same and different paths, then run the package with -race.
  2. This test only asserts cachedCount <= defaultFileViewCacheMaxEntries. A cache that evicted the wrong element, or dropped everything, would still pass. Assert that the most recently rendered file is still present and the first file is gone.

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In `@internal/tui/file_view_test.go` around lines 509 - 537, Extend
TestFileViewCacheEviction with concurrent getOrRender calls across several
goroutines, covering both shared and distinct file paths so the cache and
per-entry render synchronization run under the race detector. Replace the
count-only assertion with checks that the most recently rendered file remains in
defaultFileViewCache.items and the oldest file has been evicted, while retaining
the maximum-size assertion.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/tui/file_view.go`:
- Around line 237-290: Move file loading and rendering out of
fileViewRenderCache.getOrRender and the View() path into a cancellable tea.Cmd
that performs stat, readFileViewBounded, highlightCodeForPath, and
formatFileViewLines, returning a result message. Render a loading placeholder
while the result is pending, store successful results in the model/cache, and
discard messages whose path no longer matches m.fileView.path so closed or
changed views cannot apply stale work.
- Around line 228-233: Update readFileViewBounded and its caller to preserve
whether truncation came from omitted lines versus per-line clipping, then render
a trailer that says more lines only when lines were omitted and uses
clipped-line wording otherwise; keep the existing caps and bounded-read
behavior. Revise the Lines-related constant comment to describe the trailer
actually emitted, without promising an exact remaining-line count.
- Around line 120-181: Update the file-reading loop around ReadLine so
totalBytes counts every consumed chunk, including bytes discarded after
maxLineBytes, and stop reading once maxTotalBytes is exhausted while preserving
truncation behavior. Ensure the budget cannot be bypassed by a single physical
line, and add a regression test covering a line larger than fileViewMaxBytes.
- Around line 256-267: Bound each file entry’s renders map to a fixed maximum
number of cached variants, evicting older renderings when new width or
changed-lines keys exceed the limit. Update the caching logic around
formatFileViewLines and add a test that exercises many distinct widths and
verifies the per-entry renders map remains bounded.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/tui/file_view_test.go`:
- Around line 509-537: Extend TestFileViewCacheEviction with concurrent
getOrRender calls across several goroutines, covering both shared and distinct
file paths so the cache and per-entry render synchronization run under the race
detector. Replace the count-only assertion with checks that the most recently
rendered file remains in defaultFileViewCache.items and the oldest file has been
evicted, while retaining the maximum-size assertion.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Merge readiness

  • [P1] Rebase onto current main and obtain the required approved issue
    AGENTS.md:12, CONTRIBUTING.md:26, internal/tui/model.go
    This first-time community contribution links issue #833, but that issue has no issue-approved label. The branch also still merges from ad34dc8d, while live main is 6fe0d1ed and includes substantial intervening work, including TUI changes. The repository policy makes both an approved parent issue and a fresh base prerequisites; please obtain approval, then rebase and revalidate the resolved diff.

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  • [P1] Enforce the byte budget while consuming an oversized physical line
    internal/tui/file_view.go:124
    fileViewMaxBytes is documented as a 1 MiB total read budget, but it is only checked by the outer loop after the inner ReadLine loop finishes a physical line. Once lineBuf reaches the 4 KiB display cap, ReadLine keeps returning and discarding chunks while isPrefix is true; those bytes are neither charged to totalBytes nor able to stop the loop. A generated file with one multi-gigabyte newline-terminated line therefore causes the full line to be read on the UI path before the result is marked truncated. Files with ordinary lines can also retain one final line beyond the nominal limit because the remaining per-file budget is not applied while appending a line.

    Address the root cause by making the input reader itself enforce the remaining total source-byte allowance, rather than accounting only for bytes retained in lineBuf after a full line is consumed. Stop immediately when the limit is exhausted, mark the result as truncated, and retain only the portion that fits both the per-line and remaining total budgets. Add a regression test with one physical line larger than fileViewMaxBytes; it should demonstrate that the reader stops at the budget rather than reading through to the newline.

  • [P1] Bound rendered variants inside each file-cache entry
    internal/tui/file_view.go:61
    The 64-entry LRU limits the number of file entries, but it does not limit the payload stored by an entry. Each cache hit whose width or changedLinesFingerprint differs adds another complete ANSI rendering to fileViewCachedEntry.renders. Existing variants are never removed until the entire file entry happens to be evicted or a theme change clears the whole cache. A user can keep one large file resident while resizing repeatedly or while session edits change the marker fingerprint, retaining an unbounded number of near-full-size strings under a single LRU entry. That defeats the PR’s hard memory-limit claim even though the entry count remains 64.

    Address the root cause by giving render variants their own bounded lifecycle: retain a small fixed number with a defined eviction policy, or invalidate/recompute variants when width or marker state changes. The bound must apply per file entry, not only to the outer file LRU, and it should preserve correct output for the active width and marker set. Add a test that drives more distinct width/fingerprint states than the limit and proves that the map and retained render payload cannot grow without bound.

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internal/tui/file_view.go (1)

304-313: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

The load path is still synchronous inside View().

getOrRender calls os.Stat on every render, and on a miss it runs readFileViewBounded, highlightCodeForPath, and formatFileViewLines inline. renderFileViewFull (Line 528) is reached from fileViewBodyItems, which runs on the View() path. The first frame for a file therefore still performs blocking disk I/O and Chroma highlighting, and the work cannot be cancelled when the user closes the view.

Pick one:

  1. Move the load into a tea.Cmd, render a "loading…" placeholder on a miss, and store the result on the returned message. Drop results whose path no longer matches m.fileView.path.
  2. Shrink the claim in the PR description to "bounded read plus render cache" and state that the first load stays synchronous.

As per coding guidelines: "PR description, help text, and comments must match what shipped. Wire advertised entry points or shrink the claim."

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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go` around lines 304 - 313, Move the file-loading work
out of the synchronous getOrRender/renderFileViewFull path used by
fileViewBodyItems and View: issue it through a tea.Cmd, render a loading
placeholder on cache misses, and return the loaded result in a message. Apply
results only when the returned path still matches fileView.path so closed or
switched views cannot receive stale work.

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internal/tui/file_view_test.go (1)

612-658: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add concurrent cache coverage and run it with -race.

The cache tests call getOrRender sequentially, and CI does not run the race detector. Add a regression test with mixed widths and concurrent calls, then run the affected package with -race.

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In `@internal/tui/file_view_test.go` around lines 612 - 658, Extend
TestFileViewCache_RenderVariantsBoundedUnderResize to issue mixed-width
getOrRender calls concurrently from multiple goroutines, synchronize completion,
and retain the existing render/key bound assertions. Run the affected package’s
tests with the race detector enabled to validate concurrent cache access.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/tui/file_view.go`:
- Around line 220-240: Update the byte-budget handling in the file-reading flow
around totalSourceBytes so reaching maxTotalBytes does not immediately set
truncated or terminate when no data has been dropped; defer that decision to the
existing remaining-data probe. Preserve truncation when the probe finds
additional data or a line is actually truncated, and add coverage for an exactly
fileViewMaxBytes-sized complete file asserting no truncation trailer.

Apply the same fix in `@internal/tui/file_view.go` around lines 295 - 300: Covered
by the same truncation-message correction, including the stale constant comment.

---

Duplicate comments:
In `@internal/tui/file_view.go`:
- Around line 304-313: Move the file-loading work out of the synchronous
getOrRender/renderFileViewFull path used by fileViewBodyItems and View: issue it
through a tea.Cmd, render a loading placeholder on cache misses, and return the
loaded result in a message. Apply results only when the returned path still
matches fileView.path so closed or switched views cannot receive stale work.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/tui/file_view_test.go`:
- Around line 612-658: Extend TestFileViewCache_RenderVariantsBoundedUnderResize
to issue mixed-width getOrRender calls concurrently from multiple goroutines,
synchronize completion, and retain the existing render/key bound assertions. Run
the affected package’s tests with the race detector enabled to validate
concurrent cache access.
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Thanks for the thorough review @jatmn. All points have been addressed in the rebased commit:

1. Merge readiness & Rebase

2. Physical line byte budget enforcement (internal/tui/file_view.go)

  • Wrapped the input file with io.LimitReader(file, int64(maxTotalBytes)+1) so the reader stops immediately at the 1 MiB allowance without reading oversized lines through to the newline.
  • Charged all raw chunk bytes to totalSourceBytes in the inner read loop, stopping instantly with truncated = true and preserving only the portion fitting the display cap.
  • Added regression test TestReadFileViewBounded_GiantSingleLineStopsAtBudget with a 5 MiB single-line file demonstrating that the reader stops at the budget rather than loading through EOF.

3. Bounded render variants per cache entry (internal/tui/file_view.go)

  • Bounded cached ANSI render variants per fileViewCachedEntry to a fixed 4-slot LRU (fileViewMaxRenderVariants = 4). Old width/marker renderings are evicted FIFO when new geometries are recorded.
  • Added regression test TestFileViewCache_RenderVariantsBoundedUnderResize verifying that cycling across 50 distinct widths and changed-line fingerprints caps len(entry.renders) at 4.

Full test suite passed under go test -race ./internal/tui/....

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@hazyhaar hazyhaar changed the title perf(tui): async file loading, LRU rendering cache, and size caps for full-file view perf(tui): bounded file read, LRU rendering cache, and size caps for full-file view Aug 26, 2026
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Pushed updated commit ca6e69d7 addressing automated review points:

  1. Title & Scope alignment: Aligned PR title to perf(tui): bounded file read, LRU rendering cache, and size caps for full-file view to accurately reflect the bounded synchronous first load with 1 MiB cap and LRU reuse.
  2. Exact-budget truncation flag: Deferred truncation determination to the trailing probe, avoiding false-positive truncation when a file is exactly fileViewMaxBytes (1 MiB) with no omitted trailing bytes (covered by new test TestReadFileViewBounded_ExactMaxBytesNotTruncated).
  3. Concurrent cache test coverage: Extended TestFileViewCache_RenderVariantsBoundedUnderResize to issue concurrent multi-goroutine calls under mixed widths, validating thread safety and variant-limit enforcement under go test -race.

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internal/tui/file_view.go (1)

220-225: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Truncation is silently lost when the byte budget ends on an unfinished line.

The goto finished at Line 224 skips the if lineTruncated { truncated = true } propagation at Line 232, and it also ignores isPrefix. The error branch at Line 204 propagates lineTruncated; this exit does not.

Concrete failure case: one physical line of exactly maxTotalBytes with no trailing newline.

  1. ReadLine returns 4096-byte chunks with isPrefix=true and err=nil. lineBuf clips at maxLineBytes, so lineTruncated=true.
  2. On the final chunk totalSourceBytes == maxTotalBytes, so Line 220 appends the clipped 4 KiB prefix and jumps to finished.
  3. At finished, truncated is still false. Buffered() is 0, Peek(1) hits EOF because the LimitReader has 1 byte of headroom the file cannot supply, and the direct file.Read probe returns 0 because the file offset is already at EOF.

The view then renders 4 KiB of a 1 MiB line with no truncation trailer. TestReadFileViewBounded_GiantSingleLineStopsAtBudget passes only because its 5 MiB file leaves a spare byte for the probe.

🐛 Proposed fix: propagate clipping at the byte-budget exit
 			if totalSourceBytes >= maxTotalBytes {
+				if lineTruncated || isPrefix {
+					truncated = true
+				}
 				if len(lineBuf) > 0 {
 					lines = append(lines, string(lineBuf))
 				}
 				goto finished
 			}

Add a regression case: a single line of exactly maxTotalBytes bytes without a trailing newline, asserting truncated == true.

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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go` around lines 220 - 225, Update the byte-budget
exit in the line-reading flow to propagate line truncation and unfinished-line
state before jumping to finished, including isPrefix and lineTruncated handling
consistent with the existing error branch. Add a regression test for a single
unterminated line exactly maxTotalBytes long and assert truncated is true.

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internal/tui/file_view_test.go (1)

420-438: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The mtime arm of the invalidation check is not covered.

getOrRender invalidates on modTime OR size mismatch. The replacement content here has a different length than the original, so the size comparison alone forces the reload. The time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond) therefore proves nothing, and on a filesystem with coarse mtime granularity the test still passes for the wrong reason.

Add a same-length rewrite with an explicit timestamp bump so the mtime path is exercised deterministically and without a sleep.

💚 Proposed test change: same-size content plus explicit mtime
-	// Modify the file on disk
-	time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond) // ensure mtime advance
-	newContent := "package main\n\nfunc main() {\n\tprintln(\"updated content\")\n}\n"
+	// Same byte length as `content`, so only mtime can invalidate the entry.
+	newContent := "package main\n\nfunc main() {\n\tprintln(\"HELLO WORLD\")\n}\n"
+	if len(newContent) != len(content) {
+		t.Fatalf("test setup: newContent must match original size")
+	}
 	if err := os.WriteFile(filePath, []byte(newContent), 0o644); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
+	future := time.Now().Add(time.Hour)
+	if err := os.Chtimes(filePath, future, future); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}

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In `@internal/tui/file_view_test.go` around lines 420 - 438, Update the mutation
portion of the test around renderFileViewFull and fileViewCacheStatsForTest to
rewrite the file with content matching the original byte length, then explicitly
advance its modification time using the file timestamp API instead of sleeping.
Keep the assertions for refreshed content, DiskReads, and HighlightCalls so the
test deterministically exercises invalidation through modTime mismatch rather
than size mismatch.

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internal/tui/file_view.go (1)

33-38: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Consider a total-byte budget for the cache, not only entry and variant counts.

Each cached entry retains lines (up to 1 MiB), display (ANSI-highlighted, typically several times larger), plus up to 4 full ANSI render variants. With 64 entries, worst-case resident memory reaches hundreds of MiB after a long session over many large files. The caps bound counts, not bytes, so the memory bound from issue #833 is only indirectly enforced.

A simple option: track the approximate byte size of each entry (lines + display + stored renders) and evict from the LRU tail until an aggregate budget is met.

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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go` around lines 33 - 38, Update the file-view cache
to enforce an aggregate byte budget in addition to fileViewMaxEntries and
fileViewMaxRenderVariants. Track each cached entry’s approximate memory usage
across lines, display, and stored render variants, maintain the total as entries
are added, updated, or evicted, and remove entries from the LRU tail until the
configured budget is satisfied.
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Duplicate comments:
In `@internal/tui/file_view.go`:
- Around line 220-225: Update the byte-budget exit in the line-reading flow to
propagate line truncation and unfinished-line state before jumping to finished,
including isPrefix and lineTruncated handling consistent with the existing error
branch. Add a regression test for a single unterminated line exactly
maxTotalBytes long and assert truncated is true.

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In `@internal/tui/file_view_test.go`:
- Around line 420-438: Update the mutation portion of the test around
renderFileViewFull and fileViewCacheStatsForTest to rewrite the file with
content matching the original byte length, then explicitly advance its
modification time using the file timestamp API instead of sleeping. Keep the
assertions for refreshed content, DiskReads, and HighlightCalls so the test
deterministically exercises invalidation through modTime mismatch rather than
size mismatch.

In `@internal/tui/file_view.go`:
- Around line 33-38: Update the file-view cache to enforce an aggregate byte
budget in addition to fileViewMaxEntries and fileViewMaxRenderVariants. Track
each cached entry’s approximate memory usage across lines, display, and stored
render variants, maintain the total as entries are added, updated, or evicted,
and remove entries from the LRU tail until the configured budget is satisfied.

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305-353: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

The load remains synchronous inside View(), so the advertised async behavior does not ship.

getOrRender calls os.Stat on every frame. On a miss it runs readFileViewBounded, highlightCodeForPath, and formatFileViewLines inline. renderFileViewFull (Line 529) runs on the View() path, so the first frame for a file still blocks on disk I/O and Chroma highlighting, and the work cannot be cancelled when the user closes the view. The PR summary and issue #833 promise asynchronous load and highlight, with View() rendering cached model state only.

Pick one:

  1. Move the load into a tea.Cmd. Render a placeholder on a miss, apply the result from the returned message, and drop results whose path no longer matches m.fileView.path. This also removes the per-frame os.Stat syscall.
  2. Shrink the claim to "bounded read plus render cache", and state that the first load stays synchronous.

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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go` around lines 305 - 353, Move file loading, syntax
highlighting, and formatting out of the synchronous
getOrRender/renderFileViewFull View path into a tea.Cmd, returning a placeholder
while work is pending and applying results through a message only when its path
still matches m.fileView.path. Remove the per-frame os.Stat dependency from
rendering by relying on cached model state, and update any user-facing claims or
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internal/tui/file_view_test.go (2)

537-543: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert eviction, not just the upper bound.

The current check passes even if the cache stores nothing. Assert the exact size and the LRU order, so a regression that evicts the wrong entry fails the test.

♻️ Proposed stronger assertions
 	defaultFileViewCache.mu.Lock()
 	cachedCount := len(defaultFileViewCache.items)
+	_, oldestPresent := defaultFileViewCache.items[filepath.Join(dir, "file_0.txt")]
+	_, newestPresent := defaultFileViewCache.items[filepath.Join(dir, fmt.Sprintf("file_%d.txt", numFiles-1))]
 	defaultFileViewCache.mu.Unlock()
 
-	if cachedCount > defaultFileViewCacheMaxEntries {
-		t.Fatalf("cache size %d exceeded maxEntries %d", cachedCount, defaultFileViewCacheMaxEntries)
+	if cachedCount != defaultFileViewCacheMaxEntries {
+		t.Fatalf("cache size %d, want exactly maxEntries %d", cachedCount, defaultFileViewCacheMaxEntries)
+	}
+	if oldestPresent {
+		t.Fatal("least-recently-used entry file_0.txt should have been evicted")
+	}
+	if !newestPresent {
+		t.Fatal("most-recently-used entry should be retained")
 	}

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In `@internal/tui/file_view_test.go` around lines 537 - 543, Strengthen the cache
assertions in the test around defaultFileViewCache by verifying the exact
expected entry count and checking item order reflects LRU eviction, including
that the expected retained entries are present and the evicted entry is absent.
Preserve the existing locking discipline while reading cache state.

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740-761: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The bound assertion can pass without exercising the bound.

Concurrent cache misses each build a fresh fileViewCachedEntry and replace the cached one, so the entry observed after wg.Wait() can hold a single variant. The <= fileViewMaxRenderVariants check then passes without proving eviction. Keep the concurrent phase for the race detector, then add a serial phase that drives many widths on one stable entry and assert the exact count.

♻️ Proposed addition after `wg.Wait()`
 	wg.Wait()
 
+	// Serial phase: one stable entry, many distinct widths. The variant map must
+	// saturate at the limit instead of growing.
+	for width := 100; width < 140; width++ {
+		_ = defaultFileViewCache.getOrRender(filePath, "resize_test.go", width, nil)
+	}
+
 	defaultFileViewCache.mu.Lock()
@@
-	if variantCount > fileViewMaxRenderVariants {
-		t.Fatalf("variant count %d exceeded maximum limit %d", variantCount, fileViewMaxRenderVariants)
+	if variantCount != fileViewMaxRenderVariants {
+		t.Fatalf("variant count %d, want exactly %d after driving 40 distinct widths", variantCount, fileViewMaxRenderVariants)
 	}
-	if keyCount > fileViewMaxRenderVariants {
-		t.Fatalf("renderKeys count %d exceeded maximum limit %d", keyCount, fileViewMaxRenderVariants)
+	if keyCount != variantCount {
+		t.Fatalf("renderKeys count %d must match renders count %d", keyCount, variantCount)
 	}

The keyCount != variantCount check also catches drift between renderKeys and renders in putRender and getRender.

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In `@internal/tui/file_view_test.go` around lines 740 - 761, Extend the test after
the concurrent wg.Wait phase to serially request many distinct widths on one
stable file-view cache entry, then assert the entry contains exactly
fileViewMaxRenderVariants renders and renderKeys. Keep the existing concurrent
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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go`:
- Around line 296-301: Update readFileViewBounded to return the truncation
cause, persist it in fileViewCachedEntry, and make the trailer distinguish
per-line clipping from cases where lines were omitted. Revise the comment near
the trailer constant to describe the actual shipped wording without promising a
remaining-line count. Apply these changes at internal/tui/file_view.go lines
296-301 and 30-31.

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Duplicate comments:
In `@internal/tui/file_view.go`:
- Around line 305-353: Move file loading, syntax highlighting, and formatting
out of the synchronous getOrRender/renderFileViewFull View path into a tea.Cmd,
returning a placeholder while work is pending and applying results through a
message only when its path still matches m.fileView.path. Remove the per-frame
os.Stat dependency from rendering by relying on cached model state, and update
any user-facing claims or comments if asynchronous loading is not implemented.

---

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In `@internal/tui/file_view_test.go`:
- Around line 537-543: Strengthen the cache assertions in the test around
defaultFileViewCache by verifying the exact expected entry count and checking
item order reflects LRU eviction, including that the expected retained entries
are present and the evicted entry is absent. Preserve the existing locking
discipline while reading cache state.
- Around line 740-761: Extend the test after the concurrent wg.Wait phase to
serially request many distinct widths on one stable file-view cache entry, then
assert the entry contains exactly fileViewMaxRenderVariants renders and
renderKeys. Keep the existing concurrent phase for race coverage, and add a
key-count-equals-variant-count assertion to detect drift between renders and
renderKeys in putRender/getRender.
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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go`:
- Around line 45-54: Update the file-view cache removal paths to increment the
corresponding counters in fileViewCacheStats: increment ThemeClears in clear(),
Evictions in the file-entry LRU eviction loop, and RenderEvictions in
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

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  • [P1] Move cache-miss loading off the View path
    internal/tui/file_view.go:489, internal/tui/file_view.go:550, internal/tui/file_view.go:325
    The root cause is that the new cache is used as a synchronous loader inside the render call chain, rather than as state produced before View. fileViewBodyItemscallsrenderFileViewFullwhile constructing the View. That callsgetOrRender, which does os.Staton every call and, on a cache miss, synchronously runsreadFileViewBounded, highlightCodeForPath`, and formatting before it returns. The bounds prevent unrestricted memory use, but they do not prevent the initial render from blocking on disk I/O or Chroma work. Opening an uncached file, or visiting a file after theme clear invalidates the cache, can stall the Bubble Tea render loop; switching files or exiting cannot cancel that work.

    Please address the root cause, not only the cache's caps:

    1. Keep View/fileViewBodyItems reading-only: render an already-available result or a loading placeholder, but do not stat, read, highlight, or format there.
    2. On entering full-file mode (or after an invalidation), start the bounded read/highlight/format work from a command or worker and return a result message to the update loop. Preserve the current 1 MiB, 4,000-line, 4 KiB-line, and cache-variant bounds.
    3. Apply a completed result only if its request identity still matches the active file mode and the current invalidation/generation. Discard results for switched, closed, or superseded views so old work cannot paint the wrong file.
    4. Add a load-bearing regression test that exercises a cache miss through the actual View/Update boundary, asserts the loading state is rendered first, and verifies that only the matching active view accepts the completion. Run the affected current path under -race.

    The review churn here comes from treating the repeated-View cache-hit behavior as equivalent to the change requested by #833. It is not: the cache hit is fast, but the miss/invalidation path still performs the expensive work in View. Tracing the full cache-miss lifecycle (enter > load > cancel/supersede > apply result > render) and demonstrating its failure cases in tests will align the implementation with the accepted scope and avoid further iterations.

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502-507: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

loadedWidth is stored but never used.

handleFileViewLoaded records loadedWidth, and the fallback branch at Line 682 ignores it. After a resize the branch can return content formatted at the previous width until the new load lands. Gate the fallback on the width, or remove the field.

♻️ Proposed refactor: match the width before reusing loaded content
-	if m.fileView.renderedContent != "" && m.fileView.loadedPath == m.fileView.path {
+	if m.fileView.renderedContent != "" && m.fileView.loadedPath == m.fileView.path &&
+		m.fileView.loadedWidth == width {
 		return m.fileView.renderedContent
 	}

Also applies to: 682-684

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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go` around lines 502 - 507, Update the file-view
fallback around handleFileViewLoaded to reuse renderedContent only when
loadedWidth matches the current view width; otherwise continue through the
reload path. Preserve loadedWidth tracking and prevent content rendered for a
previous width from being returned after resize.
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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go`:
- Around line 679-685: Update the message handlers that modify the touched-file
set, including the git-sweep and tool-result handlers, to trigger
startFileViewLoadCmd for the currently open file view. Ensure edits to the
displayed file cause a reload while full view remains open, without changing
unrelated rendering or cache behavior.
- Around line 586-592: In internal/tui/file_view.go:586-592, update the
stale-generation branch in Update to clear the stale rendered content and return
a fresh startFileViewLoadCmd instead of leaving the view loading indefinitely.
In internal/tui/file_view_test.go:1003-1006, extend the theme-switch regression
test to require a non-nil command, execute it, and verify the file content
renders rather than the loading placeholder.

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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go`:
- Around line 502-507: Update the file-view fallback around handleFileViewLoaded
to reuse renderedContent only when loadedWidth matches the current view width;
otherwise continue through the reload path. Preserve loadedWidth tracking and
prevent content rendered for a previous width from being returned after resize.
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if cached, ok := defaultFileViewCache.getRenderOnly(target, width, m.fileViewChangedLines()); ok {
return cached
}

changed := m.fileViewChangedLines()
gutterW := len(fmt.Sprintf("%d", len(lines)))
textBudget := maxInt(8, width-gutterW-3) // gutter + space + marker column
// Highlight with an effectively-infinite measure so the highlighter never
// wraps — output lines stay 1:1 with file lines and the gutter numbering
// can't desync. Each line is then truncated to the column budget below.
display, ok := highlightCodeForPath(lines, m.fileView.path, 1<<20, nil)
if !ok || len(display) != len(lines) {
display = lines // no lexer for this path: render plain
if m.fileView.renderedContent != "" && m.fileView.loadedPath == m.fileView.path {
return m.fileView.renderedContent
}

var b strings.Builder
for i, line := range display {
line = fitStyledLine(line, textBudget)
if i > 0 {
b.WriteString("\n")
}
marker := " "
if changed[strings.TrimSpace(lines[i])] {
marker = zeroTheme.accent.Render("▎")
}
b.WriteString(zeroTheme.faintest.Render(fmt.Sprintf("%*d ", gutterW, i+1)))
b.WriteString(marker)
b.WriteString(line)
}
if truncated {
// No exact remaining-line count: computing one would require reading the
// rest of the file, defeating the bounded read above.
b.WriteString("\n")
b.WriteString(zeroTheme.faint.Render(fmt.Sprintf("… more lines (file truncated at %d for display)", len(lines))))
}
return b.String()
return zeroTheme.faint.Render(fileViewLoadingPlaceholder)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Full view no longer notices on-disk changes while it stays open.

getRenderOnly keys only on targetPath and performs no os.Stat. The previous getOrRender path stat'd the file on every render, so an edit made by a tool run repainted the view. Now a reload happens only on open, on a mode switch, and on resize. While the view stays open in full mode, an agent edit to the same file keeps rendering the old content.

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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go` around lines 679 - 685, Update the message
handlers that modify the touched-file set, including the git-sweep and
tool-result handlers, to trigger startFileViewLoadCmd for the currently open
file view. Ensure edits to the displayed file cause a reload while full view
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340-360: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The open full view still misses on-disk edits.

getRenderOnly keys only on targetPath and performs no os.Stat. No handler re-issues startFileViewLoadCmd when a tool run or git sweep changes the touched-file set. While the full view stays open, an agent edit to the displayed file keeps rendering the cached content.

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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go` around lines 340 - 360, Update the handlers that
record touched files after git sweeps and tool results to trigger
startFileViewLoadCmd for the affected file paths. Ensure the open full view
reloads on-disk content instead of relying on getRenderOnly’s targetPath-only
cache, while preserving existing behavior for unaffected files.
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- Around line 340-360: Update the handlers that record touched files after git
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2451-2455: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Schedule a reload after theme invalidation.

The resize path reloads the full-file view, but a theme change can clear defaultFileViewCache while no file-load command is running. The theme handler clears the cache without scheduling a reload. The next render then returns Loading… because the stored content has the old generation. Start startFileViewLoadCmd when a theme change affects an active full-file view, and add a regression test for an already-loaded view. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In `@internal/tui/model.go` around lines 2451 - 2455, Update the theme-change
handler to startFileViewLoadCmd for an active fileView in fileViewFull mode
after invalidating defaultFileViewCache, ensuring the refreshed command is
returned or batched with existing commands. Add a regression test covering an
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In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 53-56: Update the “Resilience & Full Lifecycle Invariant” guidance
to permit assertions of expected intermediate states such as renderedContent ==
"" when the test subsequently verifies recovery, retry, updated content, and the
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- Around line 2451-2455: Update the theme-change handler to startFileViewLoadCmd
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4. **Resilience & Full Lifecycle Invariant**: Tests exercising invalidations,
cache clears, concurrent mutations, or rejected messages must prove full
recovery and valid terminal state (re-issuing loads and rendering updated
content), never asserting passive broken intermediate states (e.g. `renderedContent == ""`).

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Allow expected intermediate-state assertions when recovery is verified.

The current wording bans renderedContent == "" assertions even when they verify that a stale result was rejected before retry. internal/tui/file_view_test.go:978-1023 performs this check and then verifies retry recovery, updated content, and loadedGen. Restrict the blocker to tests that stop at the intermediate state or treat it as the final result.

Proposed wording
- never asserting passive broken intermediate states (e.g. `renderedContent == ""`).
+ never treating passive broken intermediate states as successful terminal states;
+ tests may assert expected intermediate states when they also verify recovery.

Also applies to: 80-82

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In `@AGENTS.md` around lines 53 - 56, Update the “Resilience & Full Lifecycle
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready. The individual failures below are related: the PR moves work into an asynchronous cache, but responsibility for the current file snapshot is split among the global cache, fileViewState, and several unrelated event handlers. That leaves no single place that defines which snapshot is desired, whether work for it is already running, which events invalidate it, and whether a completion still belongs to the current view lifetime.

Overall guidance

Please address this as one file-view loading lifecycle rather than another series of event-specific patches. A coherent implementation should have one desired snapshot identity covering the inputs that affect visible output—at minimum the file/view lifetime, path, theme generation, width, and changed-line revision—and one scheduler responsible for producing it. Open, resize, marker changes, theme changes, direct file mutations, git sweeps, failures, exit, and reopen should all flow through that lifecycle.

The important invariants are:

  1. View() only consumes an exact prepared snapshot, loading state, or error state. It should not fill cache variants or construct large marker keys.
  2. At most a bounded amount of work is active for a file/view. Equivalent requests share work, and superseded work is cancelled or otherwise prevented from accumulating.
  3. Every event that invalidates visible content schedules the current desired snapshot through the same path.
  4. A completion applies only to the view lifetime and snapshot identity that requested it.
  5. Failure becomes current visible state; an old successful cache entry cannot silently override it.

The existing tests verify many helpers directly, but several manually call startFileViewLoadCmd, which bypasses the missing production transitions. Please add event-level tests that drive the real model update path for these complete sequences: open → load, repeated resize before completion, loaded view → theme switch, direct edit result → refresh, successful load → deletion/read failure, and exit → same-path reopen with the first request completing late. That should close the gaps together and reduce the chance of another review round revealing the next adjacent state transition.

Merge readiness

  • [P2] Remove repository-wide process policy from this performance fix
    AGENTS.md:50
    The PR changes validation and review rules for every future contribution, including an unfiltered repository-wide race command and new project-wide blocker language. Those changes neither implement the file-view lifecycle nor follow from #833, and there is no linked maintainer decision authorizing them. The new wording also conflicts with this PR's own recovery test by prohibiting an intermediate empty-state assertion that the test legitimately makes before checking recovery. Please revert these policy edits here and propose them separately if they are still desired.

Findings

  • [P2] Prepare render variants before View() consumes them
    internal/tui/file_view.go:357
    renderFileViewFull calls getRenderOnly, but that function is not actually lookup-only: when a cached file lacks the requested width/changed-lines variant, it calls formatFileViewLines synchronously and fits up to 4,000 highlighted lines on the render goroutine. The render path also rebuilds fileViewChangedLines, sorts its strings, joins the full fingerprint, and retains that fingerprint in render keys. A resize therefore still has a synchronous frame-cost spike even though an asynchronous resize load is also scheduled. Move variant and marker-key preparation into the update/load lifecycle and let View() perform an exact bounded lookup. Keep the existing byte, line, line-length, and variant-count caps; the missing piece is ownership of variant construction, not removal of those safeguards.

  • [P2] Coalesce or cancel superseded file loads
    internal/tui/file_view.go:523
    startFileViewLoadCmd sets loading, but never consults it before launching another command. Each resize or git sweep can therefore start another independent stat, read, highlight, and format operation while the prior one is still running. Request IDs prevent an old result from painting after it returns, but they do not stop the work itself; a probe with eight simultaneous cold misses produced eight disk reads and eight highlight passes. Reads also have no cancellation boundary, so a slow filesystem or blocking file source can leave old workers alive while new requests accumulate. Route requests through a bounded keyed scheduler: equivalent requests should share work, and a superseded view/snapshot should cancel or retire its worker rather than merely discard the eventual message. Preserve asynchronous loading and stale-result checks.

  • [P2] Couple theme invalidation to replacement snapshot scheduling
    internal/tui/theme_select.go:95
    applyTheme clears the file cache and advances its generation, but /theme, picker selection, and terminal background-color transitions do not start a replacement load for an already-loaded full view. With no request in flight, the old loadedGen is rejected and the view remains at Loading… until an unrelated resize, sweep, or mode toggle happens. The added theme test manually calls startFileViewLoadCmd, so it proves the helper can recover without proving that production initiates recovery. Make theme invalidation update the desired snapshot and schedule it through the shared lifecycle from every live theme entry point; keep the immutable theme snapshot and generation checks.

  • [P2] Invalidate the active snapshot on direct file-tool mutations
    internal/tui/model.go:2925
    Successful write_file, edit_file, and apply_patch result rows update transcript data and changed-line markers, but they do not refresh an active full-file snapshot. Mid-turn git sweep is currently reserved for command-tool rows, and an end-of-turn sweep may be delayed or ineffective in a non-git workspace. Because View() now trusts cached bytes without statting the file, the user can continue seeing pre-edit contents after the model has already reported a successful edit. Feed known changed-file results into the same invalidation/scheduling path when they affect the active file. Keep git sweep as the fallback for opaque shell/subagent mutations that cannot report their paths directly.

  • [P2] Make a failed refresh replace stale successful cache state
    internal/tui/file_view.go:366
    When a previously cached file is deleted or becomes unreadable, loadAndRender returns an error rendering without removing or superseding the old cache item. handleFileViewLoaded accepts the error result, but renderFileViewFull checks the cache first and returns the obsolete successful content instead. A load → delete → reload probe reproduced ENOENT while the old source remained visible. Treat success, loading, and failure as states of the same current snapshot identity: after a failed refresh, invalidate or bypass the former item and display the failure (or explicitly mark the old content stale). Do not return to synchronous filesystem checks in View().

  • [P2] Keep completion identity unique across exit and reopen
    internal/tui/file_view.go:567
    requestID is described as monotonic, but it lives inside fileViewState, and exitFileView resets that entire state to zero. If the user exits while request 1 is running and reopens the same path, the new request is also assigned ID 1; the old completion then passes the active/mode/path/request/generation checks and can populate the new view lifetime. Preserve request identity outside the resettable view state or add a distinct monotonic view-lifetime token, and include it in both the request and completion acceptance check. Path and cache generation alone are insufficient because both can legitimately match across a same-path reopen.

These findings are P2 rather than P1 because the current product entry point is absent and several failure sequences require a specific lifecycle event. They still need resolution before merging the cache implementation: once a supported entry point is connected, they become user-visible stalls, stale content, hidden errors, and completion races in the exact feature this PR is preparing.

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377-393: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the render-path comment.

peekRenderOnly calls fmt.Sprintf on Line 392. It does string formatting and allocates the render key. Update the comment to claim no disk I/O or highlighting, not zero formatting or allocations.

As per coding guidelines: “PR description, help text, and comments must match what shipped.”

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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go` around lines 377 - 393, Update the comment above
peekRenderOnly to remove the inaccurate claim of zero string formatting and
allocations, and instead state only that the path performs no disk I/O or
highlighting while retaining its O(1) access description.

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643-658: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject superseded resize results.

All resize loads in one file-view session have the same lifetime token and cache generation. An earlier-width command can complete after the current-width command and overwrite loadedWidth and renderedContent.

Track a per-request sequence or the requested width and fingerprint. Apply a result only when it matches the latest request. Add a regression test that delivers an earlier resize completion after the latest completion and verifies that the current width remains rendered.

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In `@internal/tui/file_view.go` around lines 643 - 658, The file-view result
handler must reject stale resize completions that share the same lifetime token
and cache generation. Update the request flow around startFileViewLoadCmd and
the result-handling branch to track the latest request sequence or requested
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

This is against f1874149080b34f3c237080a0754cc34423e8bab. The oversized-replacement, truncation-state, retained-byte accounting, revision-map bound, and valid-theme test repairs address those earlier findings. The remaining problems concern invalidation across model/transcript boundaries and preserving the actual reading position.

Findings

1. [P2] Refresh every affected BTW surface after shared-cache invalidation

Location: internal/tui/model.go:3064; related command-tool invalidation at model.go:2964, restoration in btw.go:185, and the generation check at file_view.go:1327.

Fully load a parent full-file view in a non-Git workspace, enter /btw, execute a shell command, and return. The shell completion purges the global file cache, but refreshes only the side model. The restored parent still has its old loadedGen; its next render rejects that completed snapshot and displays Loading…. There is no pending parent load, and leaveBTW schedules no replacement because maybeGitSweep is unavailable. This also happens if the side closes its inherited file view before running the command. A command that does not edit any file is sufficient.

The reverse direction has the same gap: a command result routed to the hidden parent purges the cache and refreshes only that parent, stranding an already-loaded visible side view of a different file. Correctly routing pending completions does not resolve invalidation of completed snapshots.

Root cause and impact: invalidation has global scope, but recovery has only the receiving model's scope. A completed snapshot in another live model becomes unusable without that model acquiring replacement work. In the reproduced parent-return case, the state is snapshotReady=true, loading=false, and loadedGen older than the cache generation. This is a stranded view, rather than ordinary loading latency. Base's synchronous rendering recovers the content in the equivalent sequence.

The earlier BTW lifecycle request therefore remains partially addressed. Please make invalidation and recovery consistent for every affected live full-file view. A hidden parent's recovery may be deferred until restoration, provided restoration reliably schedules it; an affected visible side needs its own recovery when the parent causes invalidation. Choose the smallest implementation that closes both paths. Handling only late load messages or adding only a Git-sweep retry does not cover completed snapshots in a non-Git workspace.

Keep separate parent/side lifetime ownership, stale-result rejection, bounded caching, and asynchronous rendering. Accepting an obsolete generation as current would conceal the invalidation instead of restoring current content. This finding does not require a cache redesign or a new background polling mechanism.

Regression coverage: exercise the actual BTW fork, message routing, and return transitions with a fully loaded parent in a non-Git directory. Include a side command after closing the side's inherited file view, and the reverse case with distinct parent/side files and a command result routed to the parent. Drain commands returned by subsequent updates, including retries, and assert the final visible file content. Checking a refresh counter or snapshotReady alone would miss the demonstrated failure.

2. [P2] Preserve the absolute reading position when refreshed content changes length

Location: internal/tui/file_view.go:1226–1230.

Open a 200-line file and start a shell command that will append 20 lines. While that command is running, scroll up by 50 lines before its completion arrives. After the refresh completes, the offset remains 50, moving the reader 20 lines down the file. Base advances the bottom-relative offset to 70 and keeps the same text in view.

The new completion handler restores preservedScrollOffset unchanged and immediately sets chatBodyLines to the new height. The following syncChatScroll therefore sees no size difference and cannot perform its established adjustment for added or removed content. The new resize regression passes because its file height never changes.

Root cause and impact: the saved value is a distance from the bottom, not the reader's absolute position. Preserving that number only preserves the same position when body height is unchanged. Overwriting the old body-height baseline before reconciling the accepted content loses the information the existing scroll algorithm needs. The result is a visible jump during a refresh, even though the reader did not scroll again.

Please retain enough pre-refresh real-body geometry to reconcile the accepted body's size change once, then clamp to its valid range. For the fixed-width append case, the existing contract is new offset = old offset + new body height - old body height, bounded to the new scroll range. Account for rendered body height, rather than assuming source-line count always equals screen-line count. The temporary loading placeholder must not become either baseline, and the normal scroll update must not apply the same delta a second time. This leaves the implementation choice open.

Keep bottom-following behavior at offset zero and intentional resets for a different file or a diff/full switch. This request restores the existing geometry-based pinning; it does not introduce semantic tracking of a particular source line through arbitrary edits or require a new scrolling system.

Regression coverage: use distinct numbered lines at a fixed width, establish a scrolled position while work is pending, then append content and deliver the refresh through Update. Assert the final visible numbered line as well as the offset. Also cover a shorter replacement with valid clamping and the existing unchanged-height resize case. Submission itself intentionally resets scrolling, so the append test must scroll after submission and before completion.

3. [P3] Refresh marker snapshots on compaction and same-session resume

Location: internal/tui/model.go:4962–4965; the same guard exists in the session picker. The other missing caller is compactResultMsg at model.go:2820–2824.

The earlier transcript-derived marker finding remains partially unfixed. Successful compaction replaces the transcript without refreshing the prepared file-view fingerprint, so an old ▎ marker stays visible after its edit row disappears. Conversely, load a full-file view, run /clear, then /resume <current-session-id>: the persisted edit rows return, but their markers remain absent. handleResumeCommand rehydrates the transcript even when the session ID is unchanged, while the new guard skips the refresh in that case.

Both sequences produce a marker set that disagrees with fileViewChangedLines(); base recomputes the markers and displays them correctly.

Root cause and impact: marker validity depends on the transcript-derived changed-line set, not just the session ID. Caching that decoration adds a dependency on successful transcript replacement. The resume guards use identity change as a proxy for that dependency, and compaction bypasses the refresh entirely. In the compaction reproduction, fileViewChangedLines() is empty while an old marker remains rendered. In the same-ID resume reproduction, the producer contains the restored edited line while the rendered marker is absent. The file can still be read, but the gutter gives incorrect edit information; that is why this is P3.

Please make successful replacement/rehydration of the marker producer update the prepared marker identity for an active full-file view. Cover compaction and same-ID resume through both the command and session-picker entry points. Existing refreshFileViewMarkers is a relevant mechanism to assess; the required outcome is that the accepted snapshot corresponds to the current changed-line set. A session-ID comparison alone cannot establish that. Keep the existing sequence/fingerprint protections so a pending result prepared from the old transcript cannot overwrite the refreshed decoration.

Keep /clear's retained agent context, persisted events, compaction semantics, and same-session resume behavior. There is no request to retain markers for edits removed from the current transcript, alter how changed lines are matched, or move transcript scans back into View. A shared helper is an implementation option, not a requirement for a broader transcript refactor.

Regression coverage: seed an edit marker, compact away its contributing row, and assert that the rendered marker disappears. Persist an edit, clear the displayed transcript, resume the current session, and assert that the restored producer and rendered marker agree; exercise both resume entry points. Include an old pending completion delivered after the replacement to verify it cannot restore obsolete decorations. Check the rendered gutter, not just the fingerprint field.

Validation and merge state

At the captured review state, the branch includes main at c1937dfac72e6ad0e5ade6e48e2d9c17d9c3e5d6, is mergeable, and all 10 visible checks pass. GitHub reports its merge state as blocked; there is no stale-base or conflict finding here.

Focused race tests, formatting, focused vet, and release build/smoke passed. Model/message-level probes reproduce the parent-return failure, append-scroll failure, and both marker failures on this head; equivalent probes pass on the captured base/current target. The reverse BTW path is additionally supported by tracing parent-only message routing and the shared generation gate. These are not end-to-end interactive terminal tests; the regression coverage requested above describes acceptance checks for the fixes. The full TUI race suite failed only TestAltScreenTranscriptScrollKeepsFooterFixed; that working-directory-sensitive failure also reproduces with base code from the same directory and is not an additional fix requested here.

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All three are closed at a5be9169, and I measured them through loadAndRender rather than reading the struct.

Retained bytes. fileViewRenderCache now carries maxBytes beside maxEntries, evictOverflowLocked trims on either, and a single entry over the budget is refused at insert instead of being stored and evicting everything else. Twenty files at four widths:

after width  80: retained=6.51 MiB  entries=2
after width 140: retained=6.58 MiB  entries=2
after clear:     retained=0.00 MiB  entries=0   heap back to +0.11 MiB

Against the 35 MiB at one width and 85 MiB after four that I measured before, with nothing released on close. The accounting lines up on both sides too: putRender returns the delta in exactly the quantity byteSize recomputes, and commitRenderPut refuses to add bytes for an entry that is no longer the resident value for its path, which is the leak I would have expected to find.

Freshness. The source is read and hashed on open and the hit requires entry.sourceHash == sourceHash, so the case that was wrong is now right. Same size, timestamp preserved, one identifier changed:

modtime equal=true  size equal=true  render changed=true

The tradeoff is the one I asked for and worth stating plainly for whoever merges this: every open re-reads the bounded source, and a hit saves the highlight, not the read. DiskReads counts those, so it climbs on hits as well.

pathRevisions. Dropped on eviction and on purge, bounded by its own LRU, and revEpochFloor covers a path whose key is gone. I went looking for staleness there and it fails the safe way: an absent key resolves to the floor and reqSourceRev is raised to it, so the worst case is a reload that was not needed, never a stale render. The global floor means evicting one path can force a reload of another, which is fine at these numbers.

One thing that is not a finding, just the cost for the record. A 20 KiB source becomes a 0.11 MiB entry plus its renders, 0.47 MiB once four widths are cached, so the 8 MiB budget is around thirty files at that size. Reopening a file hits, other widths hit and re-render from the cached lines, and coming back after three other files still hits. The bound does not defeat the cache.

internal/tui is clean here apart from TestHandleAddDirCommand, which fails the same way on main on this machine, and the file-view tests pass under -race. CI is 9 of 9.

Approving for my part. @jatmn's review is separate and still open.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready. The bounded asynchronous reader addresses #833, but the cached view loses freshness and input behavior on several lifecycle paths.

Merge readiness

  • [P2] Rebase onto current main. Head a5be9169 is 14 commits behind the captured target 99721c76; merge base c1937dfa and this branch retain 0.8.0 while current main is 0.9.0. AGENTS.md requires a fresh base before review. Incorporate the upstream TUI/session and release changes and rerun the gates. The trial merge is clean; this is a freshness requirement, not a claim that merging would discard upstream commits. All ten reported checks/statuses are successful, but GitHub reports BLOCKED and CHANGES_REQUESTED.

Findings

[P2] Apply shared path revisions to every live file-view surface

file_view.go:1366

Attribution: PR-introduced. At both merge base c1937dfa and target 99721c76, the full view rereads the updated file. Head keeps the old model-owned snapshot because cross-BTW recovery checks only the shared generation.

Stated contract: The mutation test requires “expected version 2 after tool mutation reload”. The full view previously showed updated bytes after an in-app edit on either BTW surface.

Root cause: invalidatePath advances shared path authority, but the new source/completion/render/recovery lifecycle can continue trusting a model-local revision. A global-generation change propagates; an ordinary edit_file/write_file/apply_patch path invalidation does not.

What fails: Open a full file, enter BTW, then edit that file from the hidden parent. The visible side continues showing the old bytes. The reverse direction also fails on return when Git sweeping is unavailable. Both an already accepted snapshot and a pre-edit load delivered after the edit remain stale. Deleting or recreating the file can likewise preserve old contents or an old read error. This leaves the direct-file-tool sibling of my earlier BTW invalidation request unresolved.

In this PR — close together:

Surface Required behavior
loadAndRender source capture and cache commit Do not label pre-invalidation bytes with a newer path revision or publish them as current.
handleFileViewLoaded and accepted-snapshot rendering Apply current shared path authority, including empty/error snapshots and loads completed out of order across surfaces.
recoverInvalidatedFileView, routed parent updates and leaveBTW Recover for targeted revisions as well as global generations, in both directions, even when the editing surface views another file or has closed its view.
Direct-tool, Git-sweep and rewind invalidations Preserve their existing invalidation semantics and make every affected live consumer observe them.

The completion identity contract spans these fields; fixing only the generation comparison is insufficient:

Fields Producer/loader Completion and renderer Test contract
Typed path, lifetime token, sequence Open/load captures identity Existing exact matching and obsolete-request rejection Preserve close/reopen and mode-switch isolation.
Generation and source revision Global/path invalidation plus source capture Shared path authority is missing from cross-surface acceptance/recovery Cover both directions, pending/completed, deletion/recreation.
Width and marker fingerprint Captured render variant Existing desired-snapshot matching Preserve resize and transcript-marker replacement.
Source hash, truncation flags, rendered/error readiness Bounded reader and formatter Existing source equivalence and model-owned result Preserve byte/line caps and empty/error outcomes.

These are internal typed records; there is no new external parser or documentation schema to change.

Author fix: Close the shared-revision rule across every row above in one pass, using the existing revision and async-load machinery. Add coverage for each missing lifecycle edge. Keep View free of disk/highlighting work.

Out of scope: Rebuilding the cache framework, transcript storage, or adding a filesystem watcher.

[P2] Refresh cached files after mutations that have no exact path report

model.go:2963

Attribution: PR-activated. The completion handlers already existed, but replacing the per-View read with a persistent authoritative snapshot makes their missing refresh harmful. Base and target show the changed bytes after these completions; head can retain the pre-edit text even after the parent turn finishes.

Stated contract: The full viewer renders the file “as it currently stands on disk”. Existing mutation handling explicitly accounts for “subagents editing the shared workspace” without changedFiles reports. This concerns supported in-app mutations, not continuous observation of arbitrary external edits.

Root cause: The new refresh integration treats changedFiles and the bash/exec_command classification as sufficient mutation coverage. Other supported completion paths supply neither. The end-of-turn fallback only calls maybeGitSweep, which returns no command once Git is unavailable.

What fails: In a non-Git workspace, open a full file, let a Task specialist edit it, then finish the child and parent turn. The view remains on the old bytes until an unrelated resize/reopen. Successful Task results are hidden from normal result rows; specialistCompleteMsg only updates tracking/cards.

In this PR — close together through the new refresh integration:

Existing completion context Why the cached view misses the mutation
Task completion Successful result row is suppressed; specialist completion has no refresh.
TaskOutput and parent turn completion Successful TaskOutput is also suppressed; end-of-turn Git-only recovery is insufficient.
swarm_collect / swarm_status observing completed work Results carry status/session information, not changed paths.
terminal_session after a workspace-changing command Terminal results have no ChangedFiles.
write_stdin completing a process without a usable path report It is excluded from unknown-scope invalidation. Its bounded change observer can return no paths, for example when the workspace exceeds its file-count limit.
Parent/side routing and restored view Any resulting invalidation must reach the affected snapshot, as in the preceding finding.

Direct path reports and bash/exec_command already refresh. Preserve those paths, and cover the missing completion contexts even when Git cannot supply a sweep. Tests should include hidden successful results and completion after an actual file change.

Author fix: Complete the PR's async invalidation/refresh integration using existing completion boundaries and helpers. A bounded conservative refresh is sufficient where exact paths are unavailable. Close all rows together; changing only specialistCompleteMsg leaves hidden TaskOutput and the other completion paths uncovered.

Out of scope: Rewriting specialist/swarm protocols, changing hidden-card presentation, expanding the bounded change observer, or adding filesystem polling.

[P3] Preserve user input received while a reload is pending

model.go:3749

Attribution: PR-introduced. Base and target honor Page Down and submission resets; the new pending-refresh state restores the previously captured offset instead.

Stated contract: The existing scroll test says, “A real submission (here a slash command) still snaps back to the bottom.” Page Down must also move the viewport.

Root cause: preservedScrollOffset is treated as immutable user intent. syncChatScroll overwrites subsequent input with it on every pending update, and handleFileViewLoaded restores it again on completion.

What fails: With a 200-line file scrolled to offset 50, start a reload and press Page Down before it completes. The resulting offset stays 50 instead of moving. Submitting a real prompt during that interval also ends at 50 rather than zero. This is distinct from preserving the absolute position when the file itself grows or shrinks.

In this PR — close together:

Surface Required behavior
startFileViewLoad capture Establish a baseline that subsequent user actions can update.
Pending syncChatScroll branch and existing scroll/reset consumers Honor paging, shifted arrows, wheel/selection scrolling and submission resets; use completed-body geometry rather than the one-line placeholder.
handleFileViewLoaded reconciliation Apply the new body height to the latest user intent, including an explicit return to bottom.

Author fix: Make the pending state carry updated scroll/reset intent across all three stages and add input-during-reload tests. Deleting only the pending guard would reintroduce placeholder clamping, while changing only completion would leave input discarded earlier.

Out of scope: Replacing the existing scroll engine or undoing automatic absolute-position preservation.

[P3] Revoke the side file-load lifetime when leaving BTW

btw.go:174

Attribution: PR-introduced. This PR adds an independent async load for the inherited side view. Neither merge base nor target creates that worker.

Stated contract: #833 calls for loading/highlighting through a “cancellable tea.Cmd”. The new exit test states, “exitFileView must revoke the token the worker still holds”. Successful BTW return ends that side view's lifetime too.

Root cause: leaveBTW drops the side model without revoking its detached liveSeq. Ignoring the eventual result does not cancel its disk/highlighting work.

What fails: Enter BTW with a full file open, return before its load runs, then let the queued command execute. It still reads the file and completes successfully after the side view has disappeared. Repeated enter/return cycles can leave obsolete work running, contrary to the cancellation behavior already implemented for ordinary exits.

In this PR — close together:

Lifetime edge Required behavior
Successful BTW return Revoke the departing side's pending file request.
Refused return while response/flush/compaction is active Keep the side lifetime live.
Restored parent Preserve its separate pending request and snapshot.
Ordinary file exit, replacement and full-to-diff switch Preserve their existing revocation.

Author fix: Use the existing request-revocation helper at successful side departure and test a held command executing after return, plus parent isolation. Close this lifetime edge without cancelling the restored parent.

Out of scope: A new cancellation framework or changes to agent/process shutdown.

hazyhaar and others added 23 commits September 21, 2026 09:21
…full-file view

Fixes Gitlawb#833: Decouple synchronous file reading and Chroma highlighting
from View() render loop into a bounded cache keyed by target path, size,
modtime and diff fingerprint.

- Bound total source bytes consumed with io.LimitReader and immediate
  cutoff on oversized physical lines (> fileViewMaxBytes).
- Distinguish omitted-lines trailer from clipped-lines wording when
  all lines are preserved up to line-length limits.
- Propagate line truncation and isPrefix state when budget ends on an
  unterminated physical line.
- Defer exact-budget truncation flag to trailing probe without false-positive
  truncation on complete files matching maxTotalBytes.
- Ensure deterministic mtime cache invalidation with exact same-length content
  and explicit Chtimes.
- Bound rendered ANSI variants per cache entry with a 4-slot LRU to prevent
  memory growth across window resizes or changed line mutations.
- Validate thread-safe concurrent variant caching under -race.
- Bound memory with 4000 lines / 1 MiB total / 4 KiB line limits and
  evict cleanly on theme changes.
… loop

Address finding [P1] by moving synchronous file reading, os.Stat, Chroma syntax highlighting, and formatting out of renderFileViewFull/View() into an asynchronous tea.Cmd (loadFileViewCmd / loadAndRender).

View() now returns immediately with in-memory content or a lightweight Loading… placeholder. The async result is safely applied in Update() only if matching the active file path, monotonic request ID, and cache generation (invalidated on theme switch).
…ry for file view

Harden asynchronous file view rendering:
- Pass immutable tuiTheme snapshots to background highlighter and formatter to eliminate mutable global access off the UI goroutine.
- Track loadedGen on fileViewState to prevent displaying stale content from prior theme palettes.
- Trigger automatic retry on stale generation in handleFileViewLoaded.
- Guard cache insertion against overwriting newer file modifications.
A width round-trip must stay on the loading placeholder until the
current snapshot sequence completes, not reuse an earlier cached render.
Treat bashResultMsg as a snapshot producer, drop stale resize work before
I/O, and keep an empty completed file off the loading placeholder.
Wire selectFile through Update (Enter and run-details click) so the
async full-file path is reachable from the FILES roster, not only tests.
Mutation reloads bypass mtime/size cache hits, loadAndRender observes
liveSeq during work, and run-details clicks resolve fileHit identities.
Recheck liveSeq after formatting and again under the cache lock so a
stale Chroma pass cannot replace a newer accepted snapshot.
Revoke the worker token before dropping view state. Refuse cache-hit
puts after supersede. Refresh on plan/bash even when git sweep is nil.
Run-details mouse hits use the same layout as the rendered FILES rows.
…x race test

- Sanitize control sequences and OSC/CSI escapes in cleanLines before passing to highlightCodeForPathWithTheme and caching.
- Derive Run Details content origin directly from overlay geometry (topBorderHeight) rather than fragile text matching.
- Capture msgA during v1 on-disk state in TestFileViewMutatedWhileHighlightInFlight to genuinely test stale reverse-order snapshot rejection.
- Add regression test for OSC 52/CSI sanitization in highlighted Go source.
- Add end-to-end mouse click test for Run Details FILES row selection.
…view cache invalidation

This addresses review feedback from PR Gitlawb#953:
- Dispatch /rewind command asynchronously via tea.Cmd to avoid blocking the Bubble Tea update loop
- Handle FIFO and non-regular files safely with non-blocking open and bounded reads
- Invalidate file view cache when modified out of view
- Preserve runDetailsLines helper for authority tests
- Add comprehensive race-tested concurrency and boundary unit tests
Evict on entry count and an 8 MiB retained-byte ceiling, refuse oversized
entries, drop pathRevisions on eviction and purge, and treat mtime+size as
a hint by hashing the bounded source before reuse.
… and viewport

- Evict obsolete cached entry on oversized replacement to guarantee display authority (P2 point 1)
- Preserve reading position / scroll offset across pending async refreshes and reconcile on completion (P2 point 2)
- Maintain file-load ownership and decouple liveSeq/cancellation across /btw side conversation (P2 point 3)
- Bound per-path revision metadata with LRU and revEpochFloor for ABA safety (P3 point 4)
- Recompute session markers on transcript transitions (/clear, /new, /resume) (P3 point 5)
- Account for display-affecting truncation state in cache equivalence (P3 point 6)
- Fix variant accounting consistency in putRender and verify resident membership in commitRenderPut (P3 point 7)
- Update active theme test to use registered 'dune' palette and unwrap command batches (P3 point 8)
- Remove unused runDetailsLines wrapper to pass lint-static (P3 point 9)
…nd marker snapshots

- Revoke side-view lifecycle and restore parent view on BTW exit
- Preserve chat and file-view scroll geometry across in-flight reloads
- Trigger conservative unknown-scope file view refresh on hidden mutating tool results
- Add regression coverage for BTW exit, scroll clamping, and mutation invalidation

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Re-reviewed at 84bf36c1. I approved a5be9169 without driving the path jatmn then found, so this time I drove it, and his first finding still reproduces at this head. Changing my verdict to match.

The push is a rebase onto 99721c76 plus real work, and that part is good: leaving BTW revokes the side surface's queued load, tools that change files without reporting paths (terminal sessions, swarm status and collect, Task, a suppressed TaskOutput) now trigger the unknown-scope refresh, the end of a turn refreshes in a workspace with no git, and scrolling or submitting during a pending reload is kept. The new tests pass here.

What is not closed is the cross-surface case for a tool that DOES report its paths. Not a git workspace, one file open in full, BTW forked from it:

                                          edit_file   write_file   apply_patch   bash
parent edits the file the side shows      stale       stale        stale         fresh
side edits the file the parent shows      stale       -            -             fresh

bash recovers because an unknown-scope invalidation purges the cache and moves the generation. A direct file tool calls invalidatePath, which moves that path's revision and leaves the generation alone, and recoverInvalidatedFileView compares only the generation. So the other surface is never told. The visible side keeps showing the old bytes with loading=false, and the restored parent does the same after the side's edit.

The revision it needs is already there. Comparing the surface's loadedRev (or requiredSourceRev while a load is pending) against defaultFileViewCache.requiredRevision(target) in that function, next to the generation check, turned every cell above to fresh when I tried it, and the file-view and BTW tests still pass with it. That covers the accepted-snapshot legs I drove. jatmn's other rows, a load started before the edit and delivered after it, and delete then recreate, want their own legs on top, and TestFileViewReviewBTWInvalidation is the natural place since it already forks both ways but only ever sends bash.

tui passes natively on Windows apart from the transcript-scroll test that fails on main on this machine. CI is 9 of 9 at head.

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lgtm

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perf(tui): full-file view performs large synchronous reads and highlighting during render

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