feat(viewer): Markdown preview and highlighted code with line numbers

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Split, as asked in the review. This PR is now the file viewer alone, one commit on main.
The parts split off have landed: the task lists (#669), formatBytes (#670) and chat code
highlighting (#671), which this PR builds on.

Change

The file viewer showed a text file as one plain <pre>. A Markdown plan or README read as source,
and code had no colors and no line numbers.

• Markdown preview.
  • A .md/.markdown file opens rendered with the chat's Markdown renderer. Show source, one
    toggle in the header, switches to its text.
  • Relative links (./b.md, ../src/x.ts) resolve from the file's own folder and open in the
    viewer.
  • It takes the chat's font size and font.
  • It is as wide as the chat lane of the pane that opened it, and centered; Settings can make it the
    viewer's full width. The lane is written by src/lib/chatLane.ts: on each pane's
    .terminal-stack, as PaneTerminal did, and on the viewer from the pane it was opened from
    (data-pane-owner). Nothing is written on the document root, so two panes side by side (feat(split): two panes side by side, by dragging a tab or a sidebar row #602)
    each keep their own lane, and the merge order against feat(split): two panes side by side, by dragging a tab or a sidebar row #602 does not matter.
• Highlighted code with line numbers for every text file, with feat(chat): highlight code blocks by their language #671's highlighter. The line
  numbers are a CSS counter, so a copy or selection is the code alone.
• Nothing a file holds can freeze the page.
  • The viewer loads the first 256 KB of a text file (TEXT_LOAD_LIMIT).
  • The Preview's parseMarkdown runs in a worker with a 2 s budget (src/lib/markdownPreview.ts,
    on feat(chat): highlight code blocks by their language #671's src/lib/offThread.ts). A parse that runs over or throws opens the source, with
    "Too long to preview".
  • A Preview that still cannot be drawn says so and offers its source; it never blanks the app.
  • Code the worker cannot highlight within 2 s stays plain, with "Too long to highlight".
  • Drawing is bounded too, since bytes do not bound it: in Chromium 256 KB of line breaks held the page for 4 s and a 64 Ki-item list for 1.6 s.
    • Code past 20 000 lines is one text without line numbers (feat(chat): highlight code blocks by their language #671's LINE_ELEMENT_LIMIT), with "Too many lines to number".
    • A Preview that would draw over 20 000 elements (previewElements, counted in the worker) opens as its source, with "Too long to preview".
• Header actions:
  • Raw opens the file in a new tab (text/plain, sandboxed, as before).
  • Download is there for every file. In an installed app on a phone, a new tab is an in-app
    view that does not always offer to save, and a text file cut short has no other way to be saved
    whole.
  • Copy copies the whole file. When nothing can copy (no clipboard API on plain-HTTP LAN, and the
    browser's copy command refused), it selects the source instead, switching a Preview to it first.
  • Close.
  • A file no tab can show has no Open in new tab, only Download.
• A partial view says so in the size: ⚠ 256 KB of 1.3 MB, in a warning color beside an icon.
  The reason ("Showing the first 256 KB", "Too long to highlight", "Too long to preview") is the
  tooltip, and is read out to screen readers.
• Settings → Chat → File viewer: Wrap long lines, and Markdown width (Default / Full width).
  Highlight code is feat(chat): highlight code blocks by their language #671's setting under Chat and applies here too.
• New tokens: --line-number and --notice are in src/styles.css and DESIGN.md for every
  palette, each at least 4.5:1.

There is no server, protocol or demo change: everything is client-side, and the range request
already existed.

Bundle, gzip -6, measured against #671: the main script grows by 3.1 KB (372.8 → 375.9 KB). The
Preview's worker (3.1 KB) is its own chunk, loaded on first use.

Validation

On main at 182ec4e:

• bun install --frozen-lockfile, bun run typecheck and bun run build pass.
• bun run test:unit: 2269 pass, 7 skip, 0 fail. New or extended for the viewer:
  • src/lib/markdownPreview.test.ts
  • src/lib/textPreview.test.ts: previewElements and its limit.
  • src/lib/textPreview.test.ts: readTextStart against real Responses, and the empty file's 416.
  • src/lib/filePaths.test.ts: resolveFromFile, pathParts.
  • src/lib/highlight.test.ts: languageForPath.
  • src/lib/settings.test.ts: the new settings, and that PaneTerminal and the viewer both take
    the lane from src/lib/chatLane.ts.
• Browser, bun run check run bun scripts/<script>.ts in Chromium:
  • file-viewer-regression: 31 PASS, with long tasks recorded from the first paint. It covers:
    • the Preview and the source, and relative links;
    • Raw, Download, and Copy, also when nothing can copy;
    • the Preview taking the chat's font, font size and the opening pane's lane;
    • the partial-view notice, and wrapping;
    • 20 000 nested quotes, and an empty file;
    • a chat block, and a Markdown file, the highlighter is slow on, with a long-task check that
      no task holds the page for a second;
    • a Markdown file past the load limit, and Highlight code off;
    • a file of 256 KB of line breaks, and a 64 Ki-item Markdown list, neither of which holds the page;
    • a file whose body is refused.
  • file-viewer-mobile-regression: 17 PASS (the header at 390 px). Its fixture now loads its
    bundle as a module script, which the workers' import.meta.url needs.
  • settings-pages-demo-regression 7 PASS, chat-history-browser-qa 6 PASS.
  • ui-regression: 78 PASS, then it stops at the startup prompt card ("1. Yes, continue") in my
    container, the same as on main.

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• New Features

  • Chat code blocks now support language-aware syntax highlighting, with settings to disable highlighting or wrap long lines.
  • Text files can be viewed as highlighted source with line numbers or, for Markdown files, as a formatted preview. Available actions include Preview, Code, Raw, Copy, and Download.
  • File previews show notices when content is truncated or exceeds highlighting, preview, or line-number limits. Markdown previews offer readable or full-width layouts and match chat typography and pane width.
  • Slow or oversized highlighting and previews fall back to plain text or source.

• Changed

  • Files the viewer cannot display now offer Download only, rather than Open in new tab.

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Walkthrough

The changes add syntax highlighting to chat and file-viewer code, bounded text loading, and Markdown previews. The file viewer adds preview and source modes, file actions, truncation notices, and responsive controls. Settings, worker processing, theme styles, tests, translations, and documentation also change.

Changes

File Viewer and Markdown Rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Syntax highlighting and worker execution src/lib/highlight.ts, src/lib/offThread.ts, src/lib/highlightOffThread.ts, src/lib/highlight.worker.ts, src/lib/highlight.test.ts, src/lib/offThread.test.ts, package.json	Adds language detection, tokenized code lines, and a cancellable worker queue with time budgets and caching. Tests cover highlighting, queue behavior, and cache behavior.
Chat highlighting and settings src/components/HighlightedCode.*, src/components/Markdown.tsx, src/components/ChatView.css, src/components/SettingsDialog.tsx, src/lib/settings.ts, src/lib/settings.test.ts, src/styles.css, DESIGN.md	Chat code blocks use highlighted rendering. Settings add code highlighting, line wrapping, and Markdown width preferences. Theme tokens and documentation describe highlighting and settings.
Bounded text and Markdown preview processing src/lib/textPreview.*, src/lib/markdownPreview.*, src/lib/markdownPreview.worker.ts, src/lib/filePaths.*	Adds a 256 KB text-loading limit, truncation handling, and worker-based Markdown parsing. Path utilities resolve relative links and split file paths.
File viewer integration and responsive behavior src/components/FileViewer.*, src/components/TextFileView.tsx, src/lib/chatLane.ts, src/lib/clipboard.ts, src/lib/i18n.*, scripts/file-viewer-*-regression.ts, CHANGELOG.md, DESIGN.md	The viewer displays Markdown previews or highlighted source and conditionally offers file actions. It adds pane-width handling, responsive layout, localized labels, and regression coverage for viewer behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 16209

The viewer changes are mergeable with a bounded test-reliability risk: a busy runner could fail the unit suite despite correct highlighting. Make the timing check less environment-sensitive.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 16209

Existing file-access and link controls remain in the traced paths. The main remaining concern is localized availability: dense highlighted content can create substantial browser-rendering work despite the parsing time limits. No timing-based exploit was demonstrated.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: The new rendering path limits lines, but not colored-token spans. A supported-language file with few lines and many alternating token roles can remain within the 256 KiB prefix limit while producing substantial main-thread DOM work. The shared chat renderer has the same shape within its smaller character limit. Worker deadlines contain tokenization, not rendering; render-error containment does not interrupt expensive successful rendering. This introduces a potential tab-level responsiveness failure compared with the base's plain-text viewer. The byte and character caps constrain the effect, and its duration has not been demonstrated.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified availability path requires an attacker to influence supported-language file content that a user opens, or code content displayed in chat. Its supported impact is browser-tab responsiveness, affecting the shared interface rather than granting new machine or server authority. File-prefix and chat-character limits constrain each rendered input.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — Dense alternating token roles survive adjacent-role merging and can yield many colored spans without exceeding the line threshold. Rendering those spans occurs after worker completion and outside its deadline. This supports the rendering-containment concern, but does not establish a measured denial-of-service duration.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The traced file-link callback preserves machine and pane ownership. Requests continue through the machine-scoped file API, main-server authentication, watch-device restrictions, and allowlisted remote proxy using a server-held endpoint token. File access remains the existing authenticated OS-user authority; the preview does not introduce a repository-root sandbox or a broader service identity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Two-second worker budgets, short synchronous highlighting, oversized-line fallback, and Markdown element estimation provide useful resource controls. Failed previews fall back to source, and render errors are contained within the viewer. These controls do not constitute a total token-span rendering budget.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Apply a total rendering budget that includes colored-token spans, not only source lines. Above that budget, retain plain text. Include highlighted code output in Markdown preview accounting so worker isolation and browser rendering have complementary containment limits.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary changes: Markdown previews and highlighted code with line numbers in the file viewer.
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scripts/file-viewer-regression.ts (1)

249-249: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Route interception can leak into later steps if the request is never made.

page.route(..., { times: 1 }) stays registered until one request matches. If the click on notes (Line 250) does not trigger a matching **/api/fs/file?** request, for example because the viewer serves the file from a cache or uses a different URL form, the handler stays active. It then silently swallows the next file-body request in later steps. The failure shows up far from the cause.

The assertions at Lines 252-255 would still fail in that case, because the alert would never appear. The risk is therefore limited to a confusing failure message. Remove the route with page.unroute in a finally block after the assertions, so a failed run does not affect later steps.

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🟡 Minor · Use the body response to determine whether the preview is complete. · FileViewer.tsx:110-114

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Use the body response to determine whether the preview is complete.

If the file grows past textLoadLimit after next.size is read, the ranged response can contain only the requested prefix. loadedText still uses the earlier size, so it can mark that prefix complete and enable Copy. Use the response’s current-size metadata when setting loaded, and treat a missing or invalid total as incomplete.

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Merged main and addressed the open review points in 6069969:

• Merge: resolved the conflicts with feat(type): the app ships Pretendard and JetBrains Mono, and the chat reads a step larger #473 and fix(chat): the Default chat width's ceiling is 60rem, never wider than Wide at another root font size #474. The Markdown preview also takes the new --chat-fs-body, so its text is the chat's prose size, and highlighted chat code blocks take main's padding, size and line height.
• Size from the response (outside-diff finding on FileViewer.tsx): the text's size comes from the response (Content-Range on a 206, the body on a 200). An unknown size counts as cut short, so a file that grew after the stat is never copied as complete, and the header's "of" names the size the body was sent with. This also fixes a regression from 700c8bb: an empty file answers its range with 416 (bytes */0), which showed as an error; it opens empty again.
• Nested quotes (security review): quotes nest at most 32 deep (MAX_QUOTE_DEPTH) and deeper > stay text. 20 000 nested quotes (20 KB) overflowed the stack. In addition, the viewer's text view sits in a RenderBoundary: a preview that still fails shows a note with Show source, and Close, Raw and Copy stay usable.
• Default preview width: PaneTerminal writes the Default chat lane on the document instead of .terminal-stack, so the preview, which is outside the stack, is as wide as the chat (up to 60rem) instead of the 820px floor.
• unroute nitpick (scripts/file-viewer-regression.ts): the route is registered in the script's last step. After it only assert.deepEqual(errors, []) and the cleanup in finally run, and the cleanup closes the browser. No later step can be affected, so I left it without unroute.

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Thanks for this. It is a large, careful piece of work, and I read all of it at 78c5433 against v0.4.0 (aca94ee). Requesting changes for two things: it no longer merges, and the Preview can freeze the tab on a file's shape. The rest are notes.

Blocking

1. Opening a Markdown file can freeze or crash the tab

The Preview is the default for every .md file, it runs the chat's parser while the page draws, and the viewer now hands that parser up to 1 MB (textLoadLimit) where a chat message is a few KB. I timed parseMarkdown with Bun in a worktree of this branch and in one of v0.4.0. One input per row, a single file of that many characters:

Input	This branch, 48 KB	This branch, 1 MB	v0.4.0 parser, 48 KB	v0.4.0 parser, 1 MB
https://a.b/ then ) repeated	6,143 ms	not run	2 ms	20 ms
\[ on every line	1,966 ms	not run	9 ms	98 ms
_ repeated, then x	347 ms	RangeError (stack)	3 ms	303 ms
[a]( repeated on one line	127 ms	not run	129 ms	60,655 ms

• On this branch as it is, the parser predates #547 (c1eb534), so the shapes #547 fixed are all reachable from a file. The RangeError is caught by the RenderBoundary you added, which is the right fallback, but the multi-second rows freeze the tab before anything is drawn, and Show source cannot be pressed while it is frozen.
• After a rebase most of that goes away with #547, but not all of it. main's inline scanner is still quadratic for a long line with many [ and no ] (and for \( without \), and _a / __a repeated): about 250-530 ms at 48 KB, 2-4 s at 192 KB, a minute at 1 MB. That is a defect in main's parser, not in this PR, and at a chat message's size it stays under the 1 s bound src/lib/markdown.test.ts holds the parser to. This PR is what raises the input to 1 MB and makes it reachable by opening a file.

How to trigger: write a file x.md holding "[a".repeat(500_000) on one line and open it from the Files dialog.

What I would ask for: the Preview should not parse more than the parser is known to handle. For example, open a file as source (with the header's notice saying why) when it is above a preview limit well under the load limit, or when it has a line longer than some bound, and add those shapes to scripts/file-viewer-regression.ts or a unit test of textView. Highlighting already has exactly this guard (tooLongToHighlight); the Preview has none.

2. It conflicts with v0.4.0

git merge-tree aca94ee 78c5433 reports conflicts in CHANGELOG.md, DESIGN.md, src/components/Markdown.tsx, src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx, src/components/SettingsDialog.tsx, src/lib/markdown.ts and src/lib/markdown.test.ts. The branch has main up to #481; fifty commits landed since. Three of them need more than a mechanical resolve:

• #547 gave main its own MAX_QUOTE_DEPTH and a depth argument on parseMarkdown (src/lib/markdown.ts:290-292). This PR's parseBlocks and exported MAX_QUOTE_DEPTH duplicate it: keep main's, and wrap that in memoizeLast if the memo is still wanted.
• #562 rebuilt Settings as one page at a time from shared rows and cards. The new "File viewer" section has to become a page in that structure.
• #409 (yours) rewrites the same Blocks/List in Markdown.tsx. Whichever lands second has to be rebased on the other, so it helps to say which goes first.

Rules

• One change per PR (CONTRIBUTING). This carries at least four that stand alone: the viewer (preview, highlighting, header, settings), highlighting in chat code blocks, task lists in the parser, and one decimal in formatBytes, which also changes the sizes in the folder browser and the remote-PC setup progress. You offered to split it in #510. I think that would help: task lists and formatBytes are small and could merge on their own soon, and the chat highlighting carries the bundle question below.
• CI has not run. Only CodeRabbit ran on this PR; "Fast checks" and "Integration and browser" wait for a maintainer to approve the run, which is separate from this review.
• Checked and fine: every new t("...") has its ko/ja/zh entry (i18n.test.ts passes), the new component CSS uses tokens only (no color literal, no !important), DESIGN.md is updated for the new tokens (I did not compare every value with src/styles.css), nothing changes in shared/ or server/, and the icons are lucide.

Open questions from #510, not settled by this review

• Bundle size. lowlight + highlight.js common go into the main bundle (your number: +57 KB gzipped). #493 moved KaTeX out of the page load for the same reason, so loading the highlighter on first use, as you suggested, looks like the consistent choice.
• Download is gone for text, images, video and PDF. Only a binary file keeps it (FileViewer.tsx, the info?.kind === "binary" branch); the rest rely on "open in a new tab, save from there". In an installed PWA on a phone a new tab is an in-app browser view, where saving is not always offered. I did not test that on a device, so this is a question rather than a finding: is dropping Download intended there?
• Default limits (1 MB loaded, 256 KB highlighted): see point 1, which argues for a separate, lower bound on what is previewed.

Smaller notes

• PaneTerminal.tsx now writes --chat-w on document.documentElement and removes it on cleanup. That works while one PaneTerminal is mounted (src/App.tsx), which is the case today. It would break silently if two ever were, so a comment there, or scoping the property to the viewer when it opens, would be safer.
• languageForPath: name.startsWith("dockerfile") also takes dockerfile.txt and dockerfiles.json; name === "dockerfile" || name.startsWith("dockerfile.") is closer to what the comment says.
• Timings on this desktop, for scale: highlightLines takes 136 ms for 256 KB of TypeScript and 410 ms for 1 MB; parseMarkdown takes 20 ms for 1 MB of ordinary Markdown (this repository's CHANGELOG repeated). A phone is several times slower, which is fine for the default and noticeable at the 1 MB highlight setting.

What is good

• Tokens render as React spans, no dangerouslySetInnerHTML, and the line numbers are a CSS counter, so a copy is the code alone.
• The file's size is read from the response (answeredFileSize), an unknown size counts as cut short, and the empty-file 416 is handled. The fetch is aborted when the viewer closes or the limit changes.
• highlightLines never throws and falls back to plain lines; plaintext is kept from reporting "too long".
• The pure logic is in lib/ with tests, as the repository asks.

What I ran

• HERDR_TEST_MODE=unit bun test on highlight, textPreview, filePaths, markdown, memoizeLast, settings, bridgeProgress, i18n and motion: 148 pass, 0 fail.
• bun run typecheck: passes. bun run test:unit (the whole unit suite): 1436 pass, 4 skip, 0 fail across 122 files. bun run build was not run here: the shared build slot on this machine was taken throughout, so the build is only covered once CI runs.
• Not run: scripts/file-viewer-regression.ts and scripts/file-viewer-mobile-regression.ts. They need the branch on a current main to mean something; CI runs them once the run is approved after the rebase.

[aNNdii]

Thanks for the timings. They changed more than the Preview: I measured the highlighter the same way, and it had the same problem.

The highlighter froze the tab too

highlight.js's Markdown grammar is roughly cubic on [a]( repeated. A ```md block in a chat reply (highlighted up to 100 KB) took, through this branch's highlightLines:

Size	Time
2 KB	69 ms
4 KB	588 ms
8 KB	4.2 s
16 KB	about 30 s

So the fallback you suggested for the Preview (open the source) led straight into it.

What changed

Highlighting uses TanStack Highlight (@tanstack/highlight 1.0) instead of lowlight/highlight.js.

• Bundle: on main at c07a810, the main bundle is 373.9 KB gzipped against 357.5 KB (+16.4 KB). With lowlight it was +57 KB. The highlighter also has its own worker chunk (13.9 KB gzipped), and the Preview parser one of 3.2 KB, both loaded on first use.
• Speed: on ordinary code it is 8–10× faster and linear. 1 MB of TypeScript takes 32 ms, against 300 ms with lowlight.
• Languages: it has fewer. Rust, Java, Kotlin, C#, Ruby, Swift, Lua and Perl are on TanStack's main but not released yet. C, INI and SCSS map to cpp, toml and css. Makefile and GraphQL stay plain. It adds Vue, Svelte, real TSX/JSX, .env, TOML, CMake and Nginx.
• Tokens still render as React spans, with no dangerouslySetInnerHTML. The --syntax-* tokens are unchanged.

Nothing an agent writes can freeze the page.

• TanStack is also quadratic on some shapes. A line of dashes in YAML takes 3.8 s at 64 KB, and a long unterminated string of escapes is slow too. So only code up to 2 KB is highlighted while the page draws; the worst shape measured at that size takes under 5 ms.
• Longer code is highlighted in a worker (src/lib/offThread.ts). Each job gets 2 s; past that the worker is ended, and the code stays plain with "Too long to highlight". A text given up on is remembered, so it is not retried on every mount. That holds too when its view closed while the worker was still on it.
• While a reply grows, its block keeps the colors it had, and the new end shows plain until the worker answers.
• Limits: the 1 MB options are gone. The viewer loads the first 256 KB of a text file again, as main does (TEXT_LOAD_LIMIT), so the Preview never parses and the code view never highlights more than that. The 243 plan and spec files on my machine are 5 KB at the median and 79 KB at most.
• Preview: parseMarkdown runs in a worker with the same 2 s budget. A parse that runs over or throws opens the source, and the header says "Too long to preview".
• Your reproduction: since fix(chat): parse long lines of unclosed brackets in linear time #574 the parser reads "[a".repeat(128 * 1024) in linear time, so I found no input within 256 KB that still makes it slow. The worker stays as a guard for whatever the next one is. The highlighter still needs 5.6 s for that file. In a DOM harness (happy-dom with Bun workers), the Preview shows after 42 ms. Show source shows the code plain with "Too long to highlight" after about 2 s, and the main thread never stalls for more than 26 ms.
• The shapes are covered in src/lib/offThread.test.ts (the 2 s give-up, with real workers), src/lib/markdownPreview.test.ts, src/lib/highlight.test.ts (a timing bound for the 2 KB limit) and scripts/file-viewer-regression.ts. The regression script now has a slow chat block, the slow file, a Markdown file past the load limit, and a long-task check.

Settings → Chat → File viewer → Highlight code (on by default). The File viewer settings are a group on the Chat page, next to Composer and Quick replies. Off, code in the chat and the viewer is plain, with no "too long" notice. "Load text files up to" and "Highlight files up to" are removed.

Smaller notes

• languageForPath takes dockerfile or dockerfile.* (and *.dockerfile), not any name starting with "dockerfile".
• src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx has a comment that --chat-w on the document assumes one PaneTerminal is mounted.

Rebased

On main at c07a810 (#601), as one commit. The conflicts were with #547, #562, #570 and #574:

• The branch's own deep-quote fix is dropped for main's MAX_QUOTE_DEPTH. Only the memoized parseMarkdown stays.
• The file viewer keeps fix(security,a11y,reliability): the rest of the audit: CSP, clipboard gating, focus traps, token backoff #570's focus trap.
• The regression script finds a heading by .markdown-h1, since fix(security,a11y,reliability): the rest of the audit: CSP, clipboard gating, focus traps, token backoff #570 renders it as an h3.

Not done here

• Split into several PRs: I'll split as you suggested.
• feat(chat): comment on parts of an agent's reply and send the comments with the next message #409: this PR now touches Markdown.tsx only for the task-list box, the highlighted code block and ParsedMarkdown (34 lines). Either can go first; I'll rebase whichever is second.
• Download for text and media: still open.

Run

• bun run typecheck: clean.
• bun run test:unit: 1952 pass, 6 skip, 0 fail. This includes the new worker tests, which use real Bun workers.
• The PR description is updated to this version.
• bun run build: workers are emitted as their own chunks.
• scripts/file-viewer-regression.ts: not run locally, because Chromium lacks system libraries in my container. CI is its first run.

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Thanks for the thorough rework and for the measurements in your reply. I reviewed the new head 15684a2 against what the 10-07 review covered, merged it locally onto main at v0.4.2 (b82584d), and ran the checks below there. This is a comment. The earlier review requested changes, but as far as I can see its two blocking points are now addressed.

The two blocking points of 10-07

1. A Markdown file could freeze the tab. Addressed. The viewer loads at most 256 KB again (TEXT_LOAD_LIMIT). The Preview parses in a worker (src/lib/markdownPreview.ts) and highlighting runs in a worker (src/lib/highlightOffThread.ts), each with a 2 s budget after which the worker is terminated (src/lib/offThread.ts). Only code up to 2 KB is highlighted on the main thread. I read the queue: a job that runs over ends its worker and resolves null, the next job starts a new worker, and a failed spawn resolves null instead of throwing. scripts/file-viewer-regression.ts holds the long-task check, but the script stops earlier (see the first Medium below), so in my run that check was not reached.
2. Conflicts with main. Down to two: CHANGELOG.md (your entry has to go under ## [Unreleased], since v0.4.2 was cut after this branch) and one import line in src/components/SettingsDialog.tsx (main added isMacPlatform, shortcutDisplayKeys and isReservedShortcutKey; keep those and add MARKDOWN_WIDTHS). I resolved both locally for the runs below.

Bundle

I measured the build of the merged tree against v0.4.2 (gzip level 6): the main script goes from 356.8 KB to 373.1 KB (+16.3 KB, matching your +16.4 KB). The highlighter worker (13.9 KB) and the Preview worker (3.1 KB) load on first use, and the CSS grows from 41.0 KB to 42.1 KB.

Findings

Medium. Two of the PR's own browser scripts fail in a real Chromium. CI's "Integration and browser" lane runs both (scripts/ci-browser.sh), so they would fail there.

1. scripts/file-viewer-regression.ts:433, "A Markdown file of 20 000 nested quotes renders". The step runs at 390px wide. The > deepest paragraph is rendered but never visible: Playwright reports 22 × locator resolved to hidden <p>. The cause is most likely the width. Each of the 32 nested quotes takes padding-left: var(--space-3) plus its --rail-w border (src/components/ChatView.css:348), so at 390px the innermost paragraph is left with no width. The 21 steps before it pass. The same CSS and the same depth limit apply to such a quote in the chat on main, so it is the test's expectation that needs a decision: check that the paragraph is attached, run the step wider, or cap the indent of deep quotes.
2. scripts/file-viewer-mobile-regression.ts:98: the first case (portrait/tall) times out waiting for the image. I ran it twice on the merged tree and once on v0.4.2, where it passes. With the page's errors printed, the fixture page throws Cannot use 'import.meta' outside a module and renders nothing. FileViewer now reaches new Worker(new URL("./….worker.ts", import.meta.url)) (src/lib/highlightOffThread.ts, src/lib/markdownPreview.ts), and the fixture loads entry.js with a classic <script src="/entry.js">. The app itself is fine (Vite rewrites these), so the fix is in the script: load the bundle with <script type="module">, or have Bun.build emit ESM for a module script.

Medium, between this PR and #602. Both cannot land as they are. This PR moves --chat-w from the terminal stack to document.documentElement (src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx, the useLayoutEffect for Settings → Chat width). Your comment there says it assumes one PaneTerminal is mounted. #602 (split view) mounts two side by side. With both merged, each half writes its own width to the one root property, so the last resize wins and the other half's transcript and composer take the wrong width. The first half to unmount, by closing it or narrowing the window, removes the property from both. Whichever PR lands second needs a different carrier for the Preview's width, for example a variable set on the file viewer when it opens, from the width of the pane that opened it.

Low. Still one PR for several changes. It still carries the viewer (Preview, highlighting, header, settings), highlighting in chat code blocks, task lists in the parser (src/lib/markdown.ts, listItem), one decimal in formatBytes (which also changes the sizes in the bridge-update progress), and a selectContents helper. You said in your reply that you would split it. The task-list and formatBytes parts are small enough to stand alone.

Open question from 10-07, unchanged. Download is gone for text and media. Only a binary file keeps it; the rest open in a new tab. That is still unanswered for an installed PWA on a phone, where a new tab is an in-app browser view.

Note. parseMarkdown is now memoizeLast for every caller, the chat included (src/lib/markdown.ts, last line). In the chat, consecutive calls get different messages, so it only adds one string comparison per call. Harmless; mentioning it so it is a choice.

What I ran

On the merged tree (b82584d + 15684a2, the two conflicts resolved by hand):

• bun run check fast: workflow lint, generated types, typecheck and build pass; unit suite 2025 pass, 6 skip, 0 fail across 148 files (it includes your offThread.test.ts with real Bun workers).
• bun run check run bun scripts/file-viewer-regression.ts: 21 PASS, then fails at the deep-quote step (above).
• bun run check run bun scripts/file-viewer-mobile-regression.ts: fails at its first case, twice on the merged tree; passes on v0.4.2 (above).
• bun run check run bun scripts/ui-regression.ts (this PR changes PaneTerminal.tsx and Markdown.tsx): 85 PASS, exit 0.
• These are the first runs of the regression scripts in a real Chromium, which you could not run in your container. In the passing steps, the Preview and highlighted code rendered behind the app's real server and its Content-Security-Policy from 0.4.1 ("Markdown opens as a Preview with a highlighted code block", "Code past the load limit shows its first 256 KB, highlighted"), so the workers load there.

For the owner to decide

• With the freeze and the conflicts addressed, what remains is the two failing scripts above and these questions: the split into smaller PRs, Download on phones, and the order against #602 (the Medium above).
• #409 (block comments, same author) also rewrites Markdown.tsx. The author says either can go first.

[aNNdii]

Rebased on main at 182ec4e (c4b9432), now that #669, #670 and #671 have landed: one commit, the file viewer alone. The conflicts were imports and translations both sides extended, and CHANGELOG.md; the code is unchanged.

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Thanks, @aNNdii. I re-reviewed this against the latest release, v0.4.8 (cb65ecb9), plus #854, #850, #606 and #691 that landed after it. Since the branch no longer merged, and main had shipped its own file-viewer work in the meantime (#616, #785, #823, #847, #849), I merged main into the branch and pushed maintainer fixes. The PR is now up to date and ready to merge from my side.

Merging main (09d8d006, ec174a7b, 07af20eb, 00c757a8)

Main had drawn Markdown files in the viewer since #616, so this was a semantic merge, not just a textual one. Main's released behavior is kept, and this PR's features sit on top of it:

• One text reader. The viewer fetches through main's streaming readFilePreviewText (byte bound, abort, 5 s deadline). This PR's readTextStart is gone. Its Content-Range total, the empty 416 bytes */0, and incomplete-line trimming were ported into main's reader, with tests. The reader's real truncated flag drives the partial-view notice and Copy.
• The preview worker parses with HTML on (parseMarkdown(text, 0, true)), so a README's centered logo and HTML blocks render as they do in v0.4.8. MarkdownImageContext wraps the worker-parsed tree, so images and Mermaid keep working.
• Header. Main's Open in a new tab (the reader page) and Open raw file stay. This PR's Raw was dropped as a duplicate. Show source, Download and Copy are shared by the dialog and the reader page.
• Settings. Under #854's shared preferences, wrapCode and markdownWidth are device-scoped, like chatWidth. Highlight code stays shared.
• Turkish translations for the new strings (main's i18n test also checks tr). The two CHANGELOG entries moved out of the released 0.4.4 section into Unreleased, worded for the merged behavior.
• With #691, an HTML file opens as its sandboxed page by default, under the Page | Source control. Its Source is this PR's highlighted, line-numbered view. The Show source toggle stays Markdown-only, and Copy from the page switches to the source. CodeLines takes both open (path links in chat code and tool output) and this PR's line numbers, wrap and ref. The viewer's source passes open={null}, so it stays plain text.
• file-viewer-mobile-regression: added main's sheetsSettled before the header measurements. The text case was measuring mid-entrance and failed with button 0 below the name.

Findings and fixes (e60331a2)

A separate deep review of the PR's own logic found the issues below. I verified each one myself before fixing it.

1. Fixed: the preview element budget undercounted what is drawn. previewElements counted plain text as 0, a task item as 1, and math as 1. Measured with the real renderer: 9 999 checked tasks were estimated at 10 000 and drew 59 996 elements. 30 000 paths in text were estimated at 2 and drew 30 004. A 30 000-character formula was estimated at 1 and drew 120 014. The estimate now counts what Markdown.tsx draws: a span per text node, a button per path, the task box and tick, table rows, about 5 elements per character of KaTeX, and the preview root. A new unit test renders fixtures with renderToStaticMarkup and fails if the estimate is ever below the drawn count. It fails on the old estimator.
   • Counted honestly, the old 20 000 limit sent the regression's dense 256 KB long.md to source view. That file draws without a long task, so the limit is now 60 000 real elements. By the PR's own measurement (65 536 items, about 131 000 elements, 1.6 s), that is about 0.75 s. The 64 Ki list still opens as source. This repository's 240 KB CHANGELOG estimates at about 10 000.
2. Fixed: plain relative links resolved against the pane, not the document. resolveFromFile resolved only ./ and ../, so [other](other.md) in /repo/docs/guide.md opened /repo/other.md. Main's reader page already resolved from the document (resolveFromDocument). The dialog now uses that same function, and resolveFromFile is removed, so there is one link contract.
3. Fixed: a UNC document lost its root (\\server\share\docs\guide.md + ../notes.txt gave server\share\notes.txt). resolveFromDocument now keeps //server/share as a root that .. never climbs over, and treats a \\-prefixed target as absolute. Tests cover both, and each fails when its guard is removed.
4. Fixed in the merge: CHANGELOG placement, the worker's HTML mode, and Turkish (see above).
5. Fixed: two identical <> buttons in the header. After the merge, Show source and Open raw file both used Code. Show source now uses Braces.
6. Fixed (test): the "one numbered line each" check did not check numbering. It counted .hl-line spans, which exist without numbers too. It now asserts the gutter: data-line-numbers, the pre's counter-reset: line, and each line's ::before drawing counter(line) with a width.

Notes, not blocking:

• If a Copy is refused after focus has moved elsewhere (copyText returns false when focus changed), the fallback still switches a Preview to the source. Not reproduced in a browser.
• The budget counts a code block as its folded lines. A short, unfolded block's highlight spans arrive later and are not counted. They are bounded by the fold, so I left it.

Verification on the pushed head (00c757a8)

• bun run typecheck: exit 0. bun run test:unit: 2870 pass, 0 fail. bun run build: exit 0.
• file-viewer-regression: 43 PASS (including #691's cases). file-viewer-mobile-regression: 17 PASS.
• Screenshots in Chromium: the Markdown preview (HTML blocks, images, table, task, Mermaid) and highlighted source with line numbers.