feat(shortcuts): unify pane paging with configurable overlap

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Change

An iPad with an external keyboard can switch panes, but paging a chat currently requires touch. Add configurable Mod+Shift+PageUp/PageDown actions for the active chat transcript and native terminal history, with a device setting for 0–100 overlapping lines (one by default).

Settings → Chat can also opt into plain PageUp/PageDown while the composer has focus. The option is off by default, keeps the draft, selection and focus, and respects explicit app bindings, other text fields, dialogs and IME composition. Plain page keys in terminal mode remain available to the running program.

When herdr explicitly reports that a terminal has no native scrollback, invoking the paging action sends plain PageUp/PageDown through the existing live input lease. This makes the same configured action usable with application-managed history such as Codex's. The application controls its own page length; the overlap setting applies to chat and native history. Disconnected, observing, held, ended or secret-input panes do not send application page keys.

This PR is independent from the shortcut recorder (#812) and composer focus (#822). It keeps the existing Mod+Shift shortcut convention, adds all four translations and documentation, and includes an Unreleased changelog entry.

Fixes #808.

Validation

• On the feature checkpoint 799683a: 110 targeted unit tests, typecheck, all four translation checks (20 tests), script transpilation and git diff --check pass. The branch fast-forwards maintainer head e44ae546 and retains its older-page scrolling and browser-reservation fixes.
• Three fresh bun run check run --build runs on clean 799683a pass: chat paging in fractional-scale, desktop and Chromium touch/iPad-style fixtures; native shared history; and an owned alternate-screen raw-byte logger. They cover overlap, repeat/ACK behavior, draft/caret/selection/focus preservation, reload, remapping, dialog/editable/IME guards, and exactly one translated CSI page key without changing plain terminal page keys.
• Final head 79fd820 also merges current upstream ac08868 without dropping the maintainer commits. The only manual merge conflict was the additive browser-runner count (43); 100 affected unit tests, typecheck, translation checks, generated-type freshness and diff checks pass after the merge. The browser scenarios above ran before this final main merge.
• Full Fast was attempted on the earlier extension checkpoint b790afd: generated types, typecheck and build pass; units finish with 2829 pass, 50 skip and four failures in unchanged src/lib/sheetHistory.test.ts. That file passes alone (6/6), but I have not proven a full clean-upstream baseline or a root cause. Full Fast is not reported green. The final restack keeps the maintainer fixes and rechecks the affected tests and browser scenarios above.
• Independent read-only review of the extension found no blockers. Tests and media use fictional demo fixtures or panes created and closed by the tests. Physical iPad/Safari behavior and maintainer CI, including native Windows, remain to be verified. Linux-pinned actionlint is skipped on this macOS host.

Owned fictional demo screenshots:

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📝 Summary

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• New Features

  • Use Mod+Shift+PageUp/PageDown to scroll the current chat or terminal pane while preserving chat drafts, selection, and focus.
  • Configure page overlap from 0 to 100 lines in Settings, remap paging shortcuts, and use the selected overlap when paging with the scrollbar.
  • Optionally enable plain PageUp/PageDown to scroll chat while composing. If terminal history is unavailable, those keys are sent to the running application.

• Documentation

  • Updated the keyboard shortcuts guide with paging controls, settings, and terminal behavior.

Walkthrough

Adds configurable paging shortcuts for chat and terminal panes. Page movement uses a configurable overlap. Optional plain PageUp/PageDown keys scroll chat while composing. When terminal history is explicitly empty, paging sends a page key to the running application.

Changes

Pane paging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Paging settings and shortcut contract src/lib/settings.ts, src/lib/pageScroll.ts, src/lib/shortcutBindings.ts, src/lib/shortcuts.ts, src/components/SettingsDialog.tsx, src/lib/i18n.*.ts, src/lib/*test.ts, CHANGELOG.md, DESIGN.md, docs/guide.md	Adds device-scoped settings for overlap and optional chat page keys. Adds overlap distance calculation, pane-scrolling shortcuts, and settings controls. Updates translations, documentation, and unit tests.
Route paging to the active pane src/lib/actions.ts, src/App.tsx, src/components/PaneTerminal.tsx, src/components/ChatView.tsx	Routes shortcut actions through controls for the active pane. Pane key handling distinguishes chat scrolling, terminal history paging, and page-key input to the running application.
Apply overlap-aware scrolling src/components/TerminalViewportTools.tsx	Applies overlap-aware movement to terminal history and tracks preview offsets while requests are pending.
Validate paging behavior scripts/*paging*, scripts/terminal-viewport-regression.ts, scripts/ci-browser*, tsconfig.tools.json	Adds browser regressions for chat paging, terminal history, application input, settings, and shortcut handling. Adds the new browser scripts to the CI lane.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: devswha

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c5bac

Paging can occasionally misroute or drop a page keypress right after a terminal program changes screens or during heavy output. These are narrow timing cases, and the core paging feature works. They are worth fixing, but they should not block the merge.

Pre-merge checks | 4 | 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 31.25% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 16 functions across 22 files. (2 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description includes the required Change and Validation sections. It clearly explains the behavior, scope, issue reference, test results, known limitations, and unverified environments.
Title check		The title is concise and accurately identifies the main change: unified pane paging with configurable overlap through shortcut behavior.
Linked Issues check		The PR satisfies the coding requirements in [#808]. It adds customizable Mod+Shift+PageUp/PageDown actions for the selected pane. It implements chat and native terminal history paging with device-scop…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes remain within [#808]. Settings, translations, documentation, changelog updates, and regression scripts support the paging feature. The no-native-history application fallback is directly co…

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Docstring coverage is 31.25% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 16 functions across 22 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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Maintainer pass (Codex review, 2026-10-12) on top of @devswha's earlier fixes; one follow-up pushed as c5bac10, with current main merged in as 9385193 (the App.tsx conflict with #861's split layout resolved: paging controls bind to the selected pane of the active half).

• Stale zero-history metrics. A program leaving its alternate screen hands the history back to the shell, but the browser's scroll metrics still said zero until the next read; a paging shortcut in that window went to the shell as a raw PageUp/PageDown. The viewport tools now remember the output version each metrics read followed; with metrics older than the latest output, a page is held for the next read (up to 1 s) and then scrolls history or reaches the program, as the fresh metrics say. The application-paging regression covers it (fixture quits on q, slowed metrics read; the case fails on the previous component).
• Both new scripts are now in tsconfig.tools.json (one stray focus option removed).

Everything else in the review came back fine: paging distance and overlap clamping, the explicit-away state across older pages, the plain-key guards (composer, other fields, dialogs, IME, terminal lens, explicit bindings), the application-input guards, device-scoped settings, four dictionaries, lane count 43.

Verified locally: typecheck, build, unit tests, the three paging browser scripts. Merging once the fork CI finishes. Thanks for the careful work and the honest validation notes.

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Review comments at @src/components/TerminalViewportTools.tsx:
- Line 179: Update the `heldPage` handling when `metricsOutput !==
outputVersion` so repeated page requests are queued in order instead of
replacing one another. Replay each retained request when the fresh read
resolves, and discard requests when their hold expires.
- Around line 126-130: Update the held-page handling in `read()` so stale metric
reads do not cause a pending page request to expire without being applied;
retain it across stale completions or refresh its deadline, and apply it once a
fresh read is available, including when reported history is zero.
- Around line 176-179: Update scrollPage to validate metric freshness against
the latest output and terminal dimensions before choosing either paging route.
If metrics are stale, hold the request until fresh metrics arrive; only then
select between native-history scrolling through writeRef.current and application
paging through onApplicationPage.

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