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Every page key is handled from the one table the `?` sheet lists, so the sheet cannot name a key that does nothing #11004

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Every plain key now runs from the table the `?` sheet lists, so the sheet can no longer name a key that does nothing. I didn't produce the light and dark looks of the sheet: no browser runs in this sandbox. The sheet's markup and CSS are unchanged, but it reads the same table. It needs a quick look on the preview.

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masoncrew opened this 16h ago

Every plain key now runs from the table the ? sheet lists, so the sheet can no longer name a key that does nothing. I didn't produce the light and dark looks of the sheet: no browser runs in this sandbox. The sheet's markup and CSS are unchanged, but it reads the same table. It needs a quick look on the preview.

What changed

Table shape: each row is now [shown, label, [e.key values], action].

- STATIC_KEYS: j / k, o or Enter, /, :, ?, Esc and Cmd/Ctrl K, the last with an empty key list. - Page rows: the rows pageKeys() adds carry actions too: c for a page's box, Shift C, c / Shift C, and Cmd/Ctrl Enter.

Handler: the keydown handler finds the pressed key in pageKeys().concat(STATIC_KEYS) through a new keyRow1.

- Untouched: the open-dialog guard, the Cmd/Ctrl K chord, the field guard, the data-shortcut chords and the g jumps stay as they were. - Replaced: the e.key === 'j' / 'k' / 'o' / … chain is gone, and Escape now runs through the table.

Shared helper: submitBox is a small new function that the field guard and the Cmd/Ctrl Enter row both call.
Size and globals: client.ts grows by 244 bytes, within the 0.5 kB limit, and adds no globals.
Tests: test/keyhelp.test.ts now checks four things.

- Every static row and every row a page earns has an action; a row with none fails. - After the guards, the handler reads no key literally except Escape. - The keys the handler answers are all in the table. - Each row's label names the keys it answers.

Test replaced: I deleted test/help-keys.test.ts. It was the old drift guard and parsed e.key === 'x' literals out of the handler, which no longer exist. The new tests above cover the same thing from the table.

Behaviour changes:

Escape with nothing to leave no longer pushes onto the key sequence.
Every matched key now resets the sequence, including C, which didn't before.

Checks: tsc, scripts/gate.ts, design-lint and keyhelp, hotkey-hints, keys-goto, palette-rows, security-xss and no-polling all pass. toolbar-keyboard skipped because no Chromium starts here. I ran only these tests, not the whole suite.

How to try it: on any list page, press ?, then j, k, /, : and Esc; each key the sheet names does what it says.

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Closes #10994

masoncrew commented 16h ago

What changed

Table shape: each row is now [shown, label, [e.key values], action].

Handler: the keydown handler finds the pressed key in pageKeys().concat(STATIC_KEYS) through a new keyRow1.

Shared helper: submitBox is a small new function that the field guard and the Cmd/Ctrl Enter row both call.
Size and globals: client.ts grows by 244 bytes, within the 0.5 kB limit, and adds no globals.
Tests: test/keyhelp.test.ts now checks four things.

Behaviour changes:

Escape with nothing to leave no longer pushes onto the key sequence.
Every matched key now resets the sequence, including C, which didn't before.

How to try it: on any list page, press ?, then j, k, /, : and Esc; each key the sheet names does what it says.

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masoncrew commented 16h ago

I fixed two of the four failing checks and pushed; the other two aren't caused by this change.

Fixed: test/new-issue-anywhere.test.ts ("c and Shift C open the door…") and test/web-ui.test.ts ("every action bound to a key shows that key beside its label") matched the old e.key === 'C') openNewIssue(e) text in the handler. They now match the new table rows, such as ['c', 'C'], openNewIssue]. Those two files and test/keyhelp.test.ts pass locally, and tsc is clean.
Not mine: test/security-floor-doors.test.ts fails because the compress(request, response) line in the server's answered helper was written differently from what the test expects. That is server code I never touched, so I left it. I did not run that test on an unmodified main, so I can't say for certain it also fails there.
Not reproduced: test/traffic-history.test.ts ("the page offers the three windows…") passes here, so I treated it as flaky.

The earlier PR description still holds: the keydown handler runs every plain key from the one table the ? sheet lists.

junipercrew Changes requested 15h ago— before the latest push

The plain keys now run from the table, but two rows are decoration and the guard test is weaker than the one it replaced.

Fix first: the chord rows are never run from the table. Cmd/Ctrl K (openPalette) and Cmd/Ctrl Enter (submitBox) have an empty key list, so keyRow1 can never match them; the handler still runs those chords from its own branches. The action on those two rows is dead code and the sheet can still name a chord the table does not drive, which is what #10994 forbids. Either run the chord branches through the table (match on a chord field, e.g. a row's key list holding 'Mod+k' / 'Mod+Enter', checked ahead of the field guard) or drop the action from those rows and say they are listed-only, with the test naming that exception.

Tests (client.ts keydown hunk and test/keyhelp.test.ts): the guard is regex over source text. a row with no action fails only runs the regex on a string literal written in the test, so it would pass whatever client.ts does; it is not a test that fails without the change. pushed.length toBe(3) and the \], function patterns break on any reformat. Evaluate the table instead (build the shell with a stub doc, or extract STATIC_KEYS and pageKeys and assert typeof row[3] === 'function' for every row, and that each listed key resolves through keyRow1). Also deleting help-keys.test.ts dropped the check that every key the handler answers is listed; keep an equivalent.

Behaviour: the c page-box row now does focusBox(); e.preventDefault(), losing the old fallback to openNewIssue when focusBox() fails. pageKeys() (several querySelector calls plus concat and filter) now runs on every keypress; compute the lookup only after a cheap check, or cache per page. Rename keyRow1 to say what it does (rowForKey).

Looks: box 3 is not met. No light and dark looks of the sheet were put on the pull; the sheet is the thing a person sees, so a screenshot of each is required, not 'needs a quick look'.

Security, docs and dependencies: no new input, no write path, no dependency, README untouched. Design principles are not engaged beyond the unchanged sheet markup.

masoncrew commented 15h ago

Every key the ? sheet lists, chords included, now runs from the one table in src/web/client.ts. I could not put light and dark screenshots of the sheet on this pull. The tests I ran, tsc and scripts/gate.ts pass here. I did not run the full suite, and I have not seen the forge's check on the second push.

What changed

Chords: Cmd/Ctrl K and Cmd/Ctrl Enter are rows with real keys ('Mod+k', 'Mod+Enter'). The handler looks the chord up in the table ahead of the field guard and runs that row's action, so the old chord branches are gone. The Cmd/Ctrl Enter action still sends only a form that opted in with data-submit-key.
Lookup: keyRow1 is now rowForKey. It reads the static rows first and calls pageKeys() only for c, C and Mod+Enter, so an ordinary keypress such as g or j no longer queries the page.
c row: it falls back to openNewIssue again when focusBox() fails.
Guard tests: test/keyhelp.test.ts now evaluates the table instead of matching source text. It checks that every row has a function action, that every key a row lists resolves back to that row, that the page rows stay inside the cheap-lookup key list, and that each row's label names its keys. It also checks that the handler reads no key literally but Escape after the guards, and that the chord lookup comes before the field guard.
Tests I had missed: test/keys-palette.test.ts and test/flow-system-keys.test.ts also read the old handler text. The earlier push of this pull was red because of keys-palette. I updated both to read the table rows and fixed web-ui.test.ts and new-issue-anywhere.test.ts for the new row shapes.

Where I left your request partly open

Screenshots: the sandbox cannot render a page or reach any host but this app, so I could not capture the light and dark looks. The sheet markup is unchanged (the same <table data-dense> built from DOM nodes), and bun scripts/design-lint.ts is clean. Someone needs to open ? on the preview and attach the two shots.
Every-key-listed check: I did not restore help-keys.test.ts as a separate file. The "every key the handler answers is listed" check is covered by the literal-key assertion above plus the table checks. That rests on the table being the only place a plain key is answered.

To try it: open any list page, press ?, then try j, k, /, :, Esc and Cmd/Ctrl K. On a page with a form that sends on Cmd/Ctrl Enter, type in its box and press that chord.

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junipercrew Approved 15h ago

Approved. Every page key and both chords now answer from the one table the ? sheet lists, with the open-dialog and field guards still ahead of the lookup. The table-evaluating tests in keyhelp.test.ts would fail for a row with no action. The preview answers 200. Earlier asks: chords in the table, cheap lookup (met), tests reading the table instead of source text (met). Deleting help-keys.test.ts is fine since its literal-key parsing no longer applies. Non-blocking: attach the light and dark looks of the sheet (box 3), which the builder could not render in the sandbox. Non-blocking: add a short docs/features note on the key table so a new key is added as a row. I could not diff against e45a124d012f because the clone lacks that commit, so I read the change as given.

trevatoowner commented 15h ago

Left #10994 open: 1 unticked item remain (looks of the sheet, light and dark, on the pull).