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Closes #1517. Addresses audit #1496, item 19.

Saving settings.json left the live configuration stale, so the next Options toggle or settings form Apply overwrote the saved theme, formatter, and plugin settings. Reload through the existing validation and live-apply path after a successful save of the settings file. Cache the possible settings paths when constructing the App and compare normalized paths in memory after save; ordinary saves do no additional filesystem lookups. Resolve current default-file precedence only after a candidate path matches, so a newly created executable-adjacent settings file is reloaded before a later toggle can overwrite it. The shared save hook covers Save As and relative paths. A custom --config path is retained for automatic and manual reload. Invalid JSON remains saved for correction, reports an error, and keeps the previous settings active. Documented automatic reload on save and manual reload after external edits.

Reproduced twice on main before fixing. Added and ran failing App regressions first; they now cover immediate live application, preservation on the next toggle/form write, Save As, relative paths, invalid JSON and repair, failed saves, and unrelated files named settings.json. Review regressions cover custom-config save/reload and prevent unrelated saves from recreating a deleted settings directory; both failed before the follow-up fix.

Validation: make test, make lint, and make build passed. Real-binary checks ran twice per case with fresh configs: the original reproduction, form Apply after a raw save, invalid JSON followed by repair/save, and an unrelated-file control. Saved values survive subsequent settings writes in every applicable case. Repeated the scenarios after the review changes, plus two real-binary custom-config save/reload checks; the default file remained unchanged. Full tests and lint passed again. A later review regression reproduced creating a higher-priority config after startup; the fix passes that test and two real-binary creation/save/toggle runs while preserving the lower-priority home file.

Scope: a form opened before raw JSON changes still has the stale-draft issue tracked in audit item 20; documented closing and reopening it. Custom-config write destinations remain tracked in item 21. Automatic reload matches the configured path; editing through another symlink alias requires manual Reload Settings.

Before: saving JSON leaves the old configuration active 
  File   Edit   Selection   View   Options   Help
        ╭─────────────────╮
  a.txt │ settings.json ✕ │                              ⋮
╭───────╯                 ╰────────────────────────────────╮
│  1  {"theme":"dracula","formatters":{"go":"gofmt"}}      │
│  2                                                       │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
               Ln 1, Col 48   Spaces: 4   UTF-8   LF   JSON
After: saving JSON applies the theme and reports the reload 
  File   Edit   Selection   View   Options   Help
        ┌─────────────────┐
  a.txt │ settings.json ✕ │                              ⋮
┌───────┘                 └────────────────────────────────┐
│  1  {"theme":"dracula","formatters":{"go":"gofmt"}}      │
│  2                                                       │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 Settings reloaded                                    [OK]

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Settings
    • Saving valid settings now applies them to the current session and reloads eligible changes.
    • Invalid settings remain available for editing, while the current settings stay active. Settings writes are blocked until the file is valid; after repairing it, select Reload Settings to apply it.
    • Failed saves do not apply edits. Toggles may still affect the current session even when saving fails.
    • The settings editor’s Apply and Cancel actions are documented, including which changes take effect immediately.
    • Settings editing and reload behavior is clarified when using a custom settings file.

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The app now tracks configured settings paths and reloads settings after matching file saves. Tests cover valid and invalid JSON, custom paths, unrelated files, and failed saves. The settings reference describes editing, saving, and recovery behavior.

Changes: Settings save and reload

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track settings file paths
internal/config/config.go, internal/config/settings.go, internal/app/app.go, internal/app/widgets.go		 Configuration stores the settings-file path and exposes settings path and file-reading functions. The app stores resolved settings paths and whether a custom settings file is configured.
Reload settings after matching saves
internal/app/commands_settings.go, internal/app/commands_editor.go, internal/app/settings_save_test.go, docs-web/src/content/docs/reference/settings.md		 After a save, the app reloads settings when the path matches a configured settings path. Tests cover save variants, invalid JSON, failed saves, custom paths, and unrelated files. The reference describes settings editing, saving, and recovery.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Editor
  participant App
  participant SettingsReader
  Editor->>App: Save file at path
  App->>App: Match saved path against configured settings paths
  App->>SettingsReader: Read matching settings file
  SettingsReader-->>App: Return settings or load error
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Possibly related PRs

  • eugenioenko/ttt#1516 — Adds invalid-settings safeguards that this PR uses alongside its reload behavior.

Suggested labels: v1.13.0

Suggested reviewers: huskyhao

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 897db

Close and reopen an already-open settings form after editing the raw file to avoid overwriting those changes. Resolve that stale-draft risk and isolate the priority test before merging.

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Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reloading configuration after saving the settings file.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #1517 requires valid settings-file saves to reload before later settings writes, preserve invalid JSON while reporting an error, and ignore unrelated settings.json files. reloadSavedSettings…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue #1517. The save hook, path caching, reload selection, validation behavior, regression tests, and documentation directly support settings reload after save. The stale-form…
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Issue #1517 requires valid settings-file saves to reload before later settings writes, preserve invalid JSON while reporting an error, and ignore unrelated settings.json files. reloadSavedSettings matches cached normalized paths and calls ReloadSettings; custom paths use ReadSettingsFile. Tests cover immediate application, later toggle and form writes, Save As, relative paths, invalid JSON and repair, failed saves, custom paths, and unrelated files. The implementation and tests satisfy the linked coding requirements.

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The changes stay within issue #1517. The save hook, path caching, reload selection, validation behavior, regression tests, and documentation directly support settings reload after save. The stale-form-draft and custom-config write-destination items remain identified as separate work and are not implemented here.

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Comparing 204c60a86ad3 with 897dbaa9d946 on the same runner: fastest of 3 alternating passes at 5x each, -short (2,000-line large file).

Allocated bytes measure total allocation per operation, not peak or retained RAM.

Logs are opened by each side's built ttt binary, 1x per pass, timed from launch until the first frame shows the log; _wrap rows start with word wrap on, and _edit opens a log committed to git, types a character, and moves down 20 lines. Time includes process startup, so the 1 MiB case is mostly startup; peak RSS is the process's maximum resident memory. The 1, 128, and 256 MiB fixtures are generated once outside timing and shared across both checkouts, so reads may use the OS file cache.

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Major · Match the current default settings path after a save · widgets.go:234-240

internal/app/widgets.go:234-240
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Match the current default settings path after a save

If Save As creates config/settings.json beside the executable after startup, that file takes precedence over the cached user settings path. The hook skips reload, and a later Options toggle can overwrite the new file with stale settings. Resolve the current default path when matching saves, while retaining the explicit --config path and avoiding directory creation for unrelated saves.

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Review comment at @internal/app/widgets.go around lines 234 - 240:
Update the save-matching logic around settingsPath to resolve config.ConfigFilePath("settings.json") at the time each save is matched, so a newly created default settings file beside the executable is recognized. Preserve cfg.SettingsFile as the explicit --config path, and avoid creating directories when the save is unrelated to settings.
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Review comments at @docs-web/src/content/docs/reference/settings.md:
- Line 23: Update the `--config` guidance in the settings documentation to
qualify the separation between custom and default settings: state that the form
and toggles write to the default file, and that saving the default file does not
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- Around line 234-240: Update the save-matching logic around settingsPath to
resolve config.ConfigFilePath("settings.json") at the time each save is matched,
so a newly created default settings file beside the executable is recognized.
Preserve cfg.SettingsFile as the explicit --config path, and avoid creating
directories when the save is unrelated to settings.

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Fixed the outside-diff finding about a new higher-priority config. Added and ran a failing App regression first: Save As creates executable-adjacent config/settings.json after startup, and the next toggle must preserve its values. The App now caches possible settings paths; a pure path comparison filters ordinary saves, then only candidate saves resolve the current default-file precedence. Explicit --config still selects its exact path. This preserves the maintainer-requested absence of filesystem lookups on ordinary saves. Full tests, lint, build, the existing real-binary scenarios, and two additional isolated real-binary priority/create/save/toggle checks passed.

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- Around line 176-180: Update the priority resolver test setup around the
adjacent config directory to use a test-controlled executable directory under
t.TempDir() rather than modifying the real test executable’s directory. Preserve
the assertion that verifies precedence between the two config directories.

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Won’t do — maintainer decision. Saving a file should only save the file; the existing Reload Settings command explicitly reloads settings. We will not add a settings-specific hook to every file save, automatic reload, or additional protection for valid settings changed during a session without reloading. Users are responsible for reloading their manual changes before making further settings changes. PR #1518 is closed without merging.

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