feat(web): improve terminal scrollback navigation and snapshots

[StiensWout]

Terminal history is hard to navigate from the focused input, and Select All is not exposed. Reading each dirty snapshot cell also makes several calls across the WASM boundary.

Add Select all and Jump to latest to the existing context menu, plus focused history shortcuts. Keep ordinary shell keys and alternate-screen navigation intact. Batch Ghostty cell reads through its official API and reuse the growth-safe memory view.

Validation: 100 focused web tests on the initial revision; 68 surface tests, including unavailable-scrollback fallback, on the follow-up, web typecheck, targeted lint and formatting. A real remote terminal in Chrome on the Mac mini verified offscreen selection/copy, Cmd+A, paging, oldest/latest navigation, and split-pane targeting. Two independent reviews found no blockers. Electron native menus, Firefox and GPU usage were not measured.

In the same Node/WASM workload, median parse + snapshot time fell from 6.617 to 3.690 ms for plain output, 6.327 to 3.993 ms for ANSI, and 7.183 to 5.318 ms for Unicode. Seven samples, 120×40 grid and 10,000 seeded history lines. These figures exclude canvas, GPU, React, network and PTY costs. Recommendations and measurement details.

Scope and approval

Wout requested integrated-terminal improvements, performance checks, and a PR left unmerged in T3 Code. He selected context-menu option A from the reviewed plan before implementation. The scope covers local navigation and selection, plus measured snapshot cost in the same renderer. Human review and merge approval remain pending.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds user-facing full-history selection and scrollback navigation while also changing the terminal’s focused keyboard handling and Ghostty WASM snapshot path. The cross-cutting behavior and ABI/rendering changes exceed a small bounded UI adjustment and warrant human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The terminal surface adds local scrollback navigation and select-all shortcuts. The context menu adds select-all and jump-to-latest actions. Ghostty cell reads use a multi-field query for style and color data. Tests and the user guide cover these changes.

Changes

Terminal scrollback and selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Terminal-local navigation and selection apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts, apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/core.ts, apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts	The terminal surface adds active-screen select-all and local scrollback shortcuts. It updates selection bounds and handles conditions including IME composition and host interception. Tests cover platform shortcuts, alternate screens, Kitty mode, and selection behavior.
Context-menu actions and guidance apps/web/src/components/ThreadTerminalDrawer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ThreadTerminalDrawer.test.ts, docs/user/terminal.md	The context menu adds “Select all” and “Jump to latest.” Read-only observers can use these actions. The guide documents scrollback navigation, selection, and platform-specific shortcuts.

Ghostty cell color reads

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Multi-field cell query and color reads apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/core.ts, apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/runtime.ts, apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/core.test.ts	The core reads cell style, grapheme length, selection state, and available colors through Ghostty’s multi-query API. Runtime memory access uses memoryDataView(). A regression test checks foreground and background colors, including resets.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 9db2b

The reviewed changes are mergeable after normal checks; no outstanding terminal behavior issue was established.

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