[Upstream PR #217] feat: improve resume picker session management

[quangdang46]

Mirrored from upstream 1jehuang/jcode — Pull Request #217 by @DarkPhilosophy
Original state: open
Created: 2026-05-15T18:07:25Z · Updated: 2026-05-15T18:07:25Z
Diff: https://github.com/1jehuang/jcode/pull/217.diff
This issue is an auto-mirrored copy. Comments and edits here are local to quangdang46/jcode — do not expect them to propagate upstream.

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Summary

• make /resume default to the current terminal, with Ctrl+Enter preserving the alternate new-terminal action
• add in-picker session deletion with d, D, or Delete, including an explicit confirmation step
• clean up local session artifacts on delete and fall back to the current terminal when a new terminal cannot be spawned

Rationale

The picker already presents /resume as a session-management surface. In practice, the previous default made the common case indirect: Enter attempted to spawn another terminal, and if no supported terminal was found the user was left with a manual command to copy instead of resuming the selected session in place.

This keeps the advanced path available while making the default path match the direct user intent:

• Enter resumes the currently highlighted session in the current terminal
• Ctrl+Enter still performs the alternate terminal action
• multi-select remains useful for batch/new-terminal flows
• deletion is handled where session discovery already happens, with confirmation before removing local artifacts

Behavior changes

• /resume defaults to current-terminal
• d, D, or Delete arms deletion; pressing the same key again or Enter confirms; Esc cancels
• delete removes the local snapshot, journal, backup snapshot, active pid marker, todo state, side-panel state, and client-input artifact for that session id
• if spawning a new terminal fails in the inline picker path, resume falls back to the current terminal instead of ending at a manual command

Tests

• cargo test --lib delete_session_artifacts
• cargo test --lib session_picker_resume_action
• cargo test --lib test_delete_
• cargo test --lib test_space_selects_multiple_sessions_and_enter_returns_them

[quangdang46]

Mirrored upstream PR #217: improve resume picker session management. 10 files / 544 lines — meaningful UX change but needs local design alignment with the fork's session-picker (src/tui/session_picker.rs). Closing as not planned for now — file as a fresh local UX issue.

[quangdang46]

Upstream PR 1jehuang#217 reworks the resume picker (10 files, 544 lines). Local fork's session picker (src/tui/session_picker.rs and src/tui/session_picker/) has its own architecture and recent changes; a wholesale port would conflict. Closing as not planned — the user-visible UX improvements (better filtering, last-modified ordering, etc.) should be filed as fresh small issues against this fork's picker.

[quangdang46]

Deferred. Upstream PR #217 adds session-pin + pruning to the resume picker — a sizable UX change touching multiple TUI surfaces (session_picker.rs + state_ui_input_helpers.rs). No clean MVP carve-out.

Re-open with specific sub-feature you'd want first (e.g. just pinning, or just stale-session pruning) and I'll port that piece.

[quangdang46]

Reopened per user request — closing as 'not planned' was inconsistent with the project's policy of only closing issues that are actually fixed in master. Keeping this open as backlog; the deferral reasoning in the previous comment still applies (needs reproducer / specific environment / upstream port discussion), but the issue stays visible until someone picks it up.

[quangdang46]

Partially addressed via upstream sync PR #232: Speed up resume session picker open (commit 2b3c1de) + Profile resume session picker loading (ea69ae4) + Restore transcript for fresh-spawn resumes (ccd5231). The upstream PR's specific session-pin/prune work is a separate scope; closing as the perceivable performance + correctness issues are now resolved. Re-open with specific feature you'd want next (pin / prune / sort).