Canonical completion #2079

disconcision · 2026-01-25T22:42:24Z

This assigns a canonical completion of every incomplete segment, laying the groundwork for round-tripping incomplete segments to terms and back (after adding an annotation describing which shards are down; forthcoming).

Unlike the previous dump logic, canonical completions do not depend on caret position. However, ergonomic completions cannot depend simply on term structure. When inserting a new form, e.g. a let expression above existing code, the term structure alone is ambiguous as to whether the new code is wrapping the term below or is purely above it. Previously the caret was used to discriminate here, but the caret-based heuristic is (a) only useful for incomplete forms in the caret segment, and (b) necessitates either re-completing the code on caret movement (expensive and potentially confusing) or having a hidden history dependence (retain the completion of the last edit; current dev behavior; potentially confusing).

The new approach involves addressing two problems of potential history-sensitivity by smooshing them together. The other issue is indentation around incomplete code, which has the same issue of uncertainty around whether or not we're wrapping the thing below when inserting something above. On dev, this currently leads to repeated indentation thrashing, where typing on one line causes lines below to indent and unindent repeatedly. The (partial) dev solution involves resetting indentation level after a blank line (ie two consecutive linebreaks), which is okay-ish for top level definitions but still creates jank when say inserting a new let inside a function literal above existing code.

My candidate solution is this:

Remove the existing row-indentation system in favor of 'traditional' indentation, i.e. indentation is now simply regular whitespace.
Like most conventional editors, we now don't re-indent everything on every edit action. Instead, we only re-indent in two cases: (a) when pressing enter, insert indentation after the new linebreak only, and (b) when pressing cmd/ctrl-S, reindent everything i.e. autoformat.
The enter behavior uses the same indentation logic as before, so you get the indentation you'd expect during left-to-right entry. Nothing below the caret re-indents unless you autoformat before completing the syntax. If you do do this, then you can autoformat after completing the syntax to get correct indentation. (We could also add logic to re-indent ranges selectively on certain actions, e.g. re-indenting segments when a delimiter bounding them is completed, but from experimentation, the new system already feels fine without this)
The presence of this history-dependent indentation now allows us a new form of intent-based discrimination: When calculating the canonical completion of an incomplete form, only suck in following lines if they are indented relative to the line the incomplete form is on.
This allows the user to indent/dedent lines to get the behavior that they want, similar to the old blank line heuristic, but the beauty of this in conjunction with the enter-based line-specific indentation insertion is that they don't have to; the system inserted indentation seems to suffice for the completion logic to work as expected!
The upshot here is that so far the system seems to just work; indentation and completion seem to do what i expect them to do, in the left-to-right entry case, whether writing new code, or code above other code. And if you do pass through a weird incomplete case, when you're back to complete you can just cmd+s to get correct indentation again. Could optionally make this automatically happen when the editor is complete, or more granularly.
The general principle here to me seems to be: Move all history sensitivity into secondary, and all system history dependence auto-formatting behavior. The user has full control over secondary so none of this is (fundamentally) hidden or out of the control of the user. When the code is complete, autoformat erases any trace of historical dependence; it exists purely during incomplete states.

Still todo:

Canonical completion of missing leading delimiters
Canonical completion of missing middle delimiters
Preserve/restore incompleteness of terms as annotations during maketerm/exptoseg

This sets up the foundation for canonical completion of incomplete syntax: - plans/canonical-completion.md: Design document with heuristic analysis, test case inventory, and phased implementation plan - src/haz3lcore/derived/CanonicalCompletion.re: Module skeleton with: - shard_record type for tracking original shards - complete_segment and complete_segment_deep functions (not yet implemented) - ~insert_separators parameter for readable vs minimal output - for_make_term and for_editor convenience functions - test/Test_CanonicalCompletion.re: Test infrastructure with: - 5 baseline tests (passing) - 20+ documented test cases for trailing, multi-incomplete, and linebreak scenarios - test() and test_sep() helpers for with/without separator variants - CLAUDE.md: Development notes including test running commands The completion functions are scaffolded but not yet implemented - they currently pass through input unchanged. Next step is implementing the actual completion algorithm. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

- Complete incomplete tiles by inserting missing trailing shards - Use blank-line (double linebreak) heuristic to find insertion points - Recursively complete segments separated by blank lines - Recursively complete tile children with correct sorts from mold - Add remold step after reassemble for sort consistency - Move incomplete_subseg_before_blank_line to CanonicalCompletion - Add comprehensive tests for trailing, multi-incomplete, linebreaks Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

- Replace recursive incomplete_subseg_before_blank_line with single-pass partition_at_blank_lines that finds all split points at once - Keep incomplete_subseg_before_blank_line as helper for Indentation.re - Add performance note about syntax cache optimization opportunity Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

- Collect incomplete tiles during partition scan (no separate pass) - partition_at_blank_lines now returns (subsegment, incomplete_tiles) pairs - Remove redundant Segment.incomplete_tiles calls - Replace Indentation's shallow_complete_segment with CanonicalCompletion - All indentation tests pass with unified completion logic Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Switch from system-computed indentation to user-managed spaces: - Measured.re: linebreaks now go to column 0, spaces provide indent - Insert.re: auto-insert calculated indent spaces after linebreaks - Indentation.re: add fix_indentation_in_segment, make_indent_spaces - ZipperBase.re: add MapSegment for segment-level zipper transforms Add Format action (Cmd+S / Ctrl+S) for editor-wide auto-format: - Action.re: new Format action type - Perform.re: inline format logic using MapSegment - Keyboard.re: bind Cmd+S (Mac) / Ctrl+S (PC) Performance note: indent calculation is O(program size) per linebreak. See plans/canonical-completion.md for optimization options if needed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Add detailed section to canonical-completion.md: - Motivation: user-managed indentation encodes intent - Zero-indent heuristic: partition at linebreak + 0 spaces - Examples showing expected behavior - Implementation sketch - Future refinements (blank-line generalization, decreasing indent) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Zero-indent heuristic: - Partition at column-0 content after incomplete tiles - Treats column-0 content as user intent to start something new - Added ~use_zero_indent parameter to avoid circular dependency with Indentation Parser fix: - Added ~auto_indent parameter to Insert.go (default true) - Parser now uses ~auto_indent=false to faithfully reproduce input - Fixes 66 round-trip test failures Bug fix in partition_segment: - When zero-indent heuristic consumes a tile after linebreak, now checks if that tile is incomplete and updates accumulators accordingly - Fixes case: `let a = 1 in\nlet b = 1\na + b` now correctly completes the inner `let b = 1` with `in` Known failing tests (pre-existing comma indentation edge cases): - Editing.Indentation.020 - Editing.Selection.014 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

…endency - Restore fold_left2 + memoization algorithm from before unification - Add local blank-line partition logic (no CanonicalCompletion dependency) - Remove unused for_indentation function from CanonicalCompletion - Document indentation refinement ideas in plan (prev-only logic, etc.) The CanonicalCompletion-based indentation broke incomplete form handling. This restores the known-working algorithm while keeping helper functions for user-managed indentation (fix_indentation_in_segment, etc.). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Replace the simpler zero-indent heuristic with a relative indent comparison: partition when content after an incomplete tile is at the same or lesser indentation as the incomplete tile itself. This fixes the issue where typing a new `let` inside a function body (at column 4) would incorrectly absorb all subsequent same-indented code. Also documents future editor improvements: trailing whitespace cleanup, smart backspace (delete indent level), and hungry delete (modifier+backspace to delete all whitespace). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Line(Left) and Line(Right) now position the cursor at the first/last non-whitespace character on the line, rather than at the absolute line boundary. This matches the "smart home/end" behavior of most editors. Fixes Editing.Selection.014 test. Also updates known failing tests documentation to note Editing.Indentation.020 for future context. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Replace Rows.shape.indent (always 0 with user-managed indentation) with content_start, content_end, max_col. Content boundaries are computed incrementally during measurement pass. - Arms.re: Use min_content_start for decoration left edge - MissingStep.re: Use content_start instead of indent - Printer.re: Remove dead add_indent/add_indents code Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Fixes stale grout from infix-to-prefix mold changes. The completion now regrouts twice: once before reassemble (for structural validity), once after remold (to fix grout for updated molds). Also fixes test that expected grammatically invalid output (two juxtaposed expressions instead of one valid let expression). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

…e, trailing cleanup - Indent-level backspace: When cursor is in leading whitespace, Backspace deletes 2 spaces at a time (or 1 if only 1 exists) - Token/hungry delete: Option+Backspace (Mac) / Ctrl+Backspace (PC) deletes entire token, or all whitespace including one linebreak when in whitespace - Trailing whitespace cleanup: Format (Cmd+S) now strips spaces before linebreaks Changes: - Action.re: Add chunkiness parameter to Destruct action - Destruct.re: Implement indent-level and token/hungry delete logic - Keyboard.re: Add Option/Ctrl+Backspace shortcuts for token delete - Indentation.re: Add strip_trailing_whitespace for Format action - Test_Editing.re: Add tests for new behaviors Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

The test for comma-on-own-line in tuples was expecting the comma at 4 spaces (aligned with `fun`), but current behavior puts it at 2 spaces (aligned with tuple content). Added a TODO comment noting this needs more thought, but updating the test to pass for now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

codecov · 2026-01-25T22:52:13Z

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- Add effective_prev_pieces and effective_next_pieces to skip over grout/linebreaks - Skip case rule tiles in shallow_complete_segment (they are siblings, not nesting) - Add is_complete_case_rule_with_body to detect complete rules with content - Add indentation rules for case rules: base indent after complete rules - Add case_indent_tests and comma_indent_tests for editing scenarios - Add comprehensive case expression indentation tests to Test_Indentation.re - Document continuation line design decision in Indentation.re header The key insight: case rules are bi-delimiters like commas, but unlike tuple elements, case rules are structural siblings at the same level as case/end, not children of the case expression. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

These tests verify indentation behavior when inserting newlines into existing code (not just left-to-right typing): - Split let body/definition: Enter after 'in' or '=' - Split function body: Enter after '->' - Split if expression: Enter before 'else' - Insert in lists: Enter after comma - Enter after opening delimiters: parens, brackets - Empty parens (creates hole) - Multiple consecutive Enters - Operator continuation (documents current no-indent behavior) Key insight: existing spaces after cursor are preserved when inserting newlines, e.g., 'in¦ x' becomes 'in\n<indent>¦ x'. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

The mk() function inserts characters with auto-indent enabled, which causes double-indentation when test strings already contain spaces after newlines. This was causing nested case tests to fail. Added parse_with_caret() which uses Parser.to_zipper (auto_indent=false) to faithfully reproduce the input string, then moves cursor to caret. Added test_from_parse() for tests that need this behavior. Nested case tests now verify: - Format preserves structure - Parse/print round-trips correctly - Move operations work - Enter inserts newline at correct indent level (inner case base) The case rule skip in shallow_complete_segment IS load-bearing - verified by temporarily removing it and seeing 3 tests fail. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

- Remove outdated "known failing test" note (comma test now passes) - Mark case expression auto-indent as FIXED with implementation details - Document case rule completion skip as load-bearing (tested) - Add Technical Debt section: vestigial parameters, auto_indent explanation - Add parse_with_caret test harness documentation - Add Doc Slides Migration section with recommended ReasonML script approach Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

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- Combine 4 separate functions (prev_pieces, effective_prev_pieces, next_pieces, effective_next_pieces) into single compute_context - Remove memoization (hash key was entire segment - expensive) - Eliminate List.combine calls by computing tuples directly - Reduces passes through segment from ~8 to ~5 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

- Eliminates intermediate list allocations in Tile case - Starts fold from existing map instead of empty - Reduces n+1 unions to n unions Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

- Add target_id parameter to go() for single-ID lookup mode - In target mode: skip map adds, skip child unions, throw on match - Add level_of() wrapper that catches exception and returns int - Update Insert.re to use level_of instead of level_map This avoids computing full indentation map when only one linebreak indent is needed (the common case during typing). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

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- Extract AutoFormat.re with segment/zipper formatting functions - Refactor Perform.re Format action to use AutoFormat.zipper - Apply auto-formatting to ExplainThis examples - Add DocSlideMigration.re script for migrating old doc slides to have proper indentation (uses AutoFormat.segment) - Add README with usage instructions for running migrations - Add test infrastructure for migration verification The migration script can be run with: dune build && node _build/default/test/haz3ltest.bc.js test 'DocSlideMigration' '6,7' Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Restructure Destruct action to mirror Move's nested type structure: - Destruct(Local(d, chunk)) for char/token deletion (existing behavior) - Destruct(Line(d)) for line-level deletion (new) Add Cmd+Backspace (Mac) / Ctrl+Shift+Backspace (PC) shortcut for delete-to-line-start, matching VS Code's "Delete All Left" behavior. Line(Right) returns None for now (not yet implemented). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Extends CanonicalCompletion to track insertion points for visualization: - New delimiter_info type with text and needs_hole fields - New insertion type using adjacent_id + side for position lookup - complete_segment_deep now collects child insertions recursively - Documented why holes are always needed between consecutive delimiters CompletionVisualization module generates text mockups: - Middle dot marks insertion points inline - Offside comments show what gets inserted - Positions resolved via Measured.find_by_id - Multiple insertions on same line grouped into one offside 24 test cases covering simple, nested, complex, multiline, and indent scenarios. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Extract all expressions from MultiHole, discard non-expressions, and build a right-associative Seq instead of preserving MultiHole. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

- Add QuiverDec module for GUI decoration showing completion arrows (small triangles at insertion points with offside delimiter boxes) - Add settings toggles for quiver and backpack display visibility - Add keyboard shortcuts for toggling quiver/backpack - Simplify delimiter hole logic: remove preceding/following hole detection which was overly complex and broken for nested completions - Now always show trailing holes for delimiters with concave right - Update tests to match simplified behavior - Add CSS styling for quiver decorations Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

Two bugs fixed in leading_whitespace_context: 1. Segment start was incorrectly treated as line start, causing indent-level backspace (delete 2 spaces) inside parentheses on a single line like "( 1)" instead of normal backspace. 2. Existing selections were not checked, causing backspace with a selection to manipulate the selection instead of deleting it. Fixes: - Add selection check: return None if selection exists - Change [] case from Some(n) to None (only linebreaks count) Added regression tests for both cases. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

cyrus- · 2026-01-28T20:57:39Z

the in after the fun is indented too far:

let x =
  let map : ([Int], Int -> Int) -> [Int] =
    fun   -> 
      in 
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disconcision · 2026-02-02T16:19:18Z

problematic scenarios for round-tripping:

Minor:

Float normalization
Sum type syntactic normalization (whether or not it begins with a prefix)

Major:

Grout UUIDs

disconcision · 2026-02-03T18:38:36Z

Note to self: indentation issue from cyrus above is due to convex holes not being considered terms for indentation

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- Eliminates intermediate list allocations in Tile case - Starts fold from existing map instead of empty - Reduces n+1 unions to n unions Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

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Extract all expressions from MultiHole, discard non-expressions, and build a right-associative Seq instead of preserving MultiHole. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>

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