A room's chat log was wrapped to the pane width from the first line on
every frame, so a busy room lagged more the longer it stayed open: in
the harness 30,000 lines cost 16.6ms a frame. The wrapped rows now
live with the log and a draw only wraps the lines that arrived since
the last one, starting over when the width changes. The same cache
serves the private-message box, and the room list draws only its
visible page like the other tables. The 30,000-line room now draws in
0.4ms.
A browsed share only moved a row at a time, so a folder of a few
hundred files stood between the user and the next folder. J and K now
jump between folder rows, H and L close or open every folder, and /
filters the whole tree by path the way the results and the room list
filter: type to narrow, Enter keeps it, Esc clears it, then hides. A
folder under a filter shows the paths that match and d downloads just
those. The keys popup gains a browse section and the bar lists them.
Moving through a browsed share felt laggy for the same reason the
results did: the popup re-flattened the whole expanded tree on every
frame, cloning every row's name and path, then built a table row for
each, and every keypress flattened it twice more. A heavy sharer's
tree runs to tens of thousands of rows once a few folders are open.
The flattened rows now live on the browse state and are rebuilt only
when a folder opens or closes, and the popup draws the visible page
alone. In the harness a 30,000-row tree went from 11ms to 0.35ms a
frame and a keypress from 2.7ms to under a microsecond.
The downloads pane had the same shape (every transfer became a row
each frame, and a select-all can queue ten thousand), so it takes the
same page window, which now lives beside page_of for every pane to
share.
Scrolling a long results list was laggy: every frame built a table row
for every result, and ratatui then drew the forty-odd that fit. At the
10,000-file cap that cost 25-32ms a frame in release (69ms in debug), in
attached and standalone mode alike, so a held key stuttered.
The pane now slices to the page ratatui would show, by its own rule:
stay where the last frame left off, pulled along only as far as keeps
the selection in view. The table gets a page-local state and the page
start is written back into the real one. The page is counted with the
same page_of that PgUp/PgDn use, so paging and drawing agree, and a
selection past the end lands on the last row as ratatui put it. Idle
frames drop to 1.5ms and a keypress to 0.6ms at the same size, measured
live in both modes.
ratatui has no lazy rows of its own: the lazy_rows proposal was not
merged and moved to the experimental ratatui-table crate, so windowing
in the caller is the recommended approach today.
The path splitter is a one-line stdlib call with a single caller, so it
lives beside that caller as a private fn, without its own tests. The pane
tests assert the two columns in one screen fragment each, the end-offset
test keeps only the two cases the existing name tests do not cover, and
the key-handling test that repeated one of them goes. The website mock
splits on the backslash the same way its Info pane already does.
The results list held the whole shared path in one column, so a search
was read through its folder: every row began with the same peer prefix
and the file name, the part being searched for, sat off the right edge.
Split the column at the last separator, the file name first with the
larger share of the width and the folder dimmed beside it, so names line
up and read at a glance.
The one scroll offset moves both columns together, and $ runs to the end
of whichever overflows further. The website's mock of the pane follows.
Suggested in #55.
The keys overlay scrolled with its own counter, a fixed page of ten and a
usize::MAX sentinel that the renderer clamped back; it now reads through
the same LogView as the chat and room logs, so the page is the window it
last drew and the half-page keys work there too.
One pane_area lookup and one page_of helper replace the pane-to-area match
that page_size, highlighted_name_end and the mouse hit test each repeated,
and list_jump takes its page as a usize so the callers stop converting.
The pane number keys are one range arm over FocusedPane::ALL, whose index
is the declaration order. The row layout carries each pane's weight beside
it instead of re-matching with an unreachable arm, and the help columns are
measured from the lines already built rather than built again for their
width. The shortcut legend borrows its static keys instead of allocating
three strings per entry per frame.
The sideways keys the results had (h/l, arrows, 0 and $) now scroll a
transfer's file name and a query too, each list on its own. The browse tree
and the room list take Home/End, PgUp/PgDn and the vim jumps like the main
lists, and a chat log, room or private, pages back through its history and
holds its place while new messages arrive; what arrives meanwhile counts as
unread until the reader returns to the end.
The results pane now has the whole width, where a long file name needs it,
and Searches, Downloads and Info share the row underneath. Tab and Shift-Tab
walk the panes, z zooms the focused one to the window, w hides it so the
others widen, and its number brings it back. Every list takes the same
navigation keys, the shortcuts bar wraps instead of cutting keys off, and ?
lists every key by pane, scrolling on a short terminal.
Follows up on #55.
Scrolled rows cost 31.7ms per frame at 30k results against 13.3ms on
develop, because every row segmented its whole filename into grapheme
clusters. Walk back from the end for at most one column of cells and
forward for at most the offset, so a row costs the column width rather
than the filename, and drop unicode-truncate for unicode-width. A tail
never starts on a combining mark.
Closes#54.
A download can now be cancelled whether it is queued, in progress, or
paused. Cancelled is a terminal status: the store refuses to overwrite
it, the status channel relays nothing after it, the partial file is
deleted, and the transfer thread releases its socket at its next
one-second poll instead of the 30s read deadline. A queued download that
is cancelled declines the peer's later offer with TransferResponse
"Cancelled", and an inbound file connection for it is refused. A fresh
download of the same file evicts the dead row so it is not shadowed,
and a cancelled transfer is not re-queued after a restart.
Surfaces: Client::cancel_download, download.cancel over RPC, `transfer
cancel <user> <path>` on the CLI (which also stops an upload by that
name), and x in the transfers pane, where d dismisses the row.
Closes#55.
While [2] Results is focused the Info pane describes the highlighted
result, so a truncated path can be read in full. h/l (or the arrow keys)
scroll the filename column by display cells, 0 and $ jump to either end
of the highlighted name, and Home/End, g/G, PgUp/PgDn and Ctrl-f/b/d/u
move through the list; the same keys work while a filter is being typed.
Ctrl chords are no longer read as their bare letter: outside [2] they do
nothing, where before Ctrl-d deleted a search and Ctrl-c opened rooms.
Space after a filter that matches nothing no longer indexes an empty
list.
Seven region audits, every finding adversarially verified against the
whole workspace before being applied; 80 landed and the two that failed
in application were refuted honestly (ParseError has a from_str_radix
producer the audit missed; NatPmpError's Display is the only reader of
its diagnostic payloads).
The bigger cuts:
- The NewPeer/PierceFireWall cluster: an operation variant nothing ever
sent, its 77-line arm, a protocol-wrong Client::pierce_firewall that
wrote a peer-init frame down the server socket, and the struct only
they used. The live paths in peer/listen.rs are untouched.
- The ops loop reads `for operation in reader` instead of hand-rolling
recv/break, de-indenting the whole dispatch body.
- Dead lib surface: Message::print_hex and four unused accessors,
UploadFailed, registry and actor getters, build_watch_user,
strip_ansi_codes, delegating shims on ClientContext. Removing public
items makes this a semver major, which the release pipeline enforces.
- Never-used flexibility: the state-migration framework that never held
a migration, border-type helpers that all answered Rounded, the TUI's
max_concurrent_downloads field nothing read.
- Convergence: six poll loops into poll_until, three wrap-around
navigation blocks into cycle, hit tests into Rect::contains, char
walkers into floor/ceil_char_boundary, five Download literals into
one helper, the suites' shared scaffolding into tests/common.
Deliberately not taken: swapping the hand-rolled zlib inflate and MD5
for crates (they replace wire-facing machinery whose tolerance of
real-world peer quirks no local test exercises) and pulling chrono into
the lib for a log timestamp. Recorded for their own decision.
Net -1002 lines. Both e2e modes stay green: 94 CLI tests each way, 16
protocol, 33 lib, unit suites, clippy pedantic clean, aislop 100/100
with the four scanner false positives suppressed inline where they
fire.
Two TUIs on one daemon behaved as two separate windows that happened to share
a login: each showed only the transfers it had queued and the searches it had
run, and neither said it was attached to anything.
The status bar now names the daemon, and both lists are views of the session:
transfers and searches appear in every window, dismissing one dismisses it
everywhere, and a window opened later starts from what is already running
rather than blank. message read likewise starts from the conversation the
daemon collected instead of only what arrives while it runs.
Search state needed the daemon to say when a query went out. The window a
search collects for belongs to whichever client started it, so without that
every other window showed a running search as finished the moment it appeared
— which is what it did. The summary carries a file count too, so a window has
the right number before it has pulled the results across.
Adds Client::forget_search, which the library had no way to do: a resident
client otherwise holds every result set it has ever seen, and a window that
dismissed a search had no way to say so.
A review of the first cut found five defects, all fixed here and all covered:
syncing ran locally too, where it cost a full copy of every result set per
frame and deleted the completed-download history restored from disk; a
transfer could be listed twice by racing its own registration; clearing all
searches did not reach the session, so every row came back; a search dismissed
elsewhere never left; and a wishlist search reported as finished the instant
it went out.
Closes the last two gaps in Soulseek's list of features an alternative client
must implement to be tolerated, and adds the result filters Nicotine+ has had
all along.
Wishlist: server code 103 is sent and code 104's announced interval is kept
rather than logged and discarded, so the re-search timer runs off the schedule
the server set. `wish add|remove|list|run` plus `serve --wishlist`; wishes
persist in config.toml as a TOML array so a comma inside a query survives.
`wish run` prints search-shaped records, so it pipes into `download --stdin`.
Privilege recognition: the code-69 user list is parsed instead of counted and
dropped, and code 92 answers `whoami` as `privilege_seconds`. Uploads now go
through a queue with a slot cap (`--upload-slots`, default 2) that serves
privileged users first — the cap is what makes the ordering mean anything, so
they are one change. `PlaceInQueueRequest` (peer code 51) is answered, where it
previously had no handler at all, and a departed peer's slot is released so a
stalled peer cannot wedge uploads shut.
Search filters: `--exclude`, `--extension`, `--min-size`, `--max-size` beside
the existing `--min-bitrate` and `--free-slots`, in one flattened arg group
shared by `search`, `get` and `wish run`.
Also serialises the library e2e suite behind the same gate `cli_e2e` already
uses: the new queue tests hold peer sockets open on purpose, which starved
concurrently-spawned soulfinds and failed unrelated download tests with
`login: Timeout`.
BREAKING CHANGE: `UploadStatus` gains a `Queued(u32)` variant, so an exhaustive
match on it no longer compiles, and `cli::Commands` gains `Wish`.
The cursor row set a foreground, and ratatui only skips a cell's colour
when that field is None — so selecting a row repainted its gold sizes,
blue usernames and status glyphs into one flat cream. Table cursors now
tint the background only, over a warm oxide wash instead of neutral.
Browse files, their sizes and the settings popup rendered in the raw
terminal foreground; they take the palette now, and free slots read
green when a peer has one.
Peer layer:
- Stream peer messages with a partial-write queue instead of write_all, so a
large SharedFileListResponse over the non-blocking socket is no longer
truncated (third-party clients like SoulseekQt can now browse our shares).
- Bound the peer-init handshake with a read timeout and handle each accepted
connection on its own thread, so one stalled peer can't wedge the listener.
- e2e: third-party direct/brokered/large-share browse + stalled-peer coverage.
TUI:
- Uploads share the downloads table columns (real Speed) and the info pane now
renders details for a selected upload.
- Download progress bar counts only in-progress transfers and hides when idle.
- Always-visible unread badge (private messages + rooms) in the shortcuts bar,
self-drawn blink so it works under tmux.
- Persist the unread private-message count across restarts.
Replace the ANSI Light* palette with the design system's tokens
(tokens/colors.css): oxide accent, phosphor focus, tape/signal/alarm
semantics, paper text on dust chrome. Only foregrounds and the row
highlight are painted so the user's terminal background shows through.
Route every bordered pane through a single pane_block() helper carrying
one column of horizontal padding, and give legends a consistent
[n] Title form with the tag in signal. The command bar now derives its
cursor position from the block's inner rect instead of a hardcoded
border offset.
Also collapses the download-status glyph match that was duplicated
across three render sites into download_status_glyph().
Press 'o' for a settings popup: edit the download folder, add/remove
share paths (applied live via a rescan and persisted to config.toml),
and force a re-index with 'r' for files changed on disk. The state
machine is unit-tested; feedback shows the shared file/folder counts.
The downloads pane is now Downloads/Uploads: uploads being served are
listed after downloads with an up-arrow marker, live progress, and
status; 'x' cancels an in-progress upload. Client::shared_counts exposes
the index size for the status line.
- Retry actually retries: 'r' in the browse popup re-requests a
timed-out user (previously the 'Press b to retry' hint did nothing —
b wasn't handled inside the popup). BrowseTabs::retry_active is
unit-tested.
- Friendlier timeout copy that explains the likely cause: "Couldn't
reach <user>. They may be offline, or their connection can't be
reached (both of you may be behind a router/firewall). Press r to try
again."
- Replace protocol terminology in user-facing labels: 'Peer slots' ->
'Free slots', 'Peer upload speed' -> 'Upload speed'.
Replace the single browse view with BrowseTabs (one tab per user),
mirroring the chat-room tabs. Browsing a new user (from search results
or a chat room's member list) opens or focuses their tab; Tab/Shift-Tab
switch between open users, 'w' closes the active tab, Esc hides the
popup while keeping the tabs. A tab bar shows the open users when more
than one is open, and each tab polls/loads independently. Re-browsing a
timed-out user retries. BrowseTabs is unit-tested.
The member list in an open room is now selectable with the arrow keys.
Press 'b' to browse the highlighted user's shared files (opens the
browse tree) or 'm' to send them a private message (opens the compose
bar pre-filled with the recipient). Selection resets when switching
rooms; RoomsState navigation is unit-tested.
Adversarial review of the chat-rooms feature surfaced seven confirmed
issues; all fixed with regression tests:
lib (DoS hardening — a malicious/MITM server could send a tiny frame
with a ~4-billion element count):
- room_list: bound the name/count vector loops by remaining payload.
- join_room: bound the member-list loop the same way.
TUI (soulseek-rs/src/models/rooms.rs, ui):
- a message for a room we already left no longer resurrects its tab
(route via open_index, not ensure_open).
- closing a tab now clears the unread badge on the room we land on.
- a room-list refresh keeps the highlight on the same room across a
re-sort (track selection by name, not index).
- Esc in the room list clears a lingering filter before closing, matching
the title's 'Esc: clear' hint.
- chat log renders one row per line so the newest message is never
clipped by wrapping.
Add a chat-rooms popup (open with 'c') satisfying the requested UX:
- Browsable, /-filterable room list showing per-room user counts,
busiest first; already-open rooms are marked.
- Multiple rooms open at once as tabs; Tab/Shift-Tab switch, 'x' leaves.
- Per-room chat log with a live member list and an inline compose line
(Enter to type, Enter to send; the server echo renders the message).
- Unread indicators: bold tab name + 'room (n)' badge per room, plus
'chat (n)' and 'inbox (n)' counters in the shortcut bar; viewing a
room clears its badge.
RoomsState is unit-tested (routing, unread accounting, tab lifecycle,
filtering).
Carry a human-readable reason on DownloadStatus::Failed so it flows
through the existing status channel to the TUI. The download Info pane
now shows an Error line for a failed download (connect failure, peer
disconnect, truncated transfer, peer-reported upload failure, or the
underlying transfer error). Failures without a known reason render as
before.
Wire browsing a user's shared files into the TUI as a modal tree popup:
- press 'b' on a highlighted search result to browse that result's owner, or
'b' elsewhere to type a username (new CommandBarMode::Browse);
- a new models/browse.rs synthesizes the flat SharedDirectory list into a
nested, collapsible tree (intermediate folders reconstructed from the
backslash paths; file download paths kept byte-exact from the original names),
with expand/collapse state and a flatten-to-rows renderer — fully unit-tested;
- the popup polls take_browse_result each tick (with a timeout), navigates with
arrows/hjkl, expands/collapses folders, and queues downloads: Enter on a file,
'd' on a file or an entire folder subtree (recursively) — all funneled into
the existing Downloads pane;
- shortcuts bar advertises browse keys and surfaces our own sharing status.
Enable the full clippy all + pedantic + nursery groups as workspace warnings,
with a small documented allow-list for the pedantic/nursery lints this project
intentionally does not follow (rustdoc-style requirements, deliberate numeric
casts in the protocol/UI layers, and a few noisy nursery lints). Also enable
the rust unused_lifetimes and unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn lints.
Fixed every resulting warning (527 -> 0) mechanically per clippy's suggestions:
inline format args, const fns, item ordering, let-else, redundant clones,
map_or, cast_lossless, Eq derives, associated-fn conversions for methods that
never used self, and removing unnecessary Result wrappers whose call sites could
never propagate an error. No runtime behavior changed; cargo fmt applied.
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets: 0 warnings. All tests pass.
Three related TUI correctness bugs:
- download_selector navigation (select_previous/next/last) computed
items.len() - 1, panicking with an arithmetic underflow when the list was
empty (e.g. a filter matched nothing). Index math is now in wrap-safe
helpers that return no selection for an empty list.
- update_search_results overwrote the filtered results view with the full
unfiltered list on every ~100ms poll, so an active filter silently stopped
working as new results streamed in. It now re-derives the filtered view
from the current query.
- The results pane rendered selection checkboxes by testing the display-row
index against a selection set that stores unfiltered indices, so under an
active filter the wrong rows showed as checked. It now maps the display
index back through the filtered-index table.
Filtering and index-mapping logic extracted into pure, unit-tested helpers.
- Add pub const BYTES_PER_MB to ui/utils.rs and replace 7 uses of the
bare 1_048_576.0 literal across the UI modules. Also pick up
uninlined-format-args cleanup in the same file while we're here.
- Replace Vec<i32> IP-byte accumulator in Peer::new_from_message with a
[u8; 4]; the .abs() calls on u8.into() were no-ops on always-positive
values. Network byte order ([3].[2].[1].[0]) preserved; tests cover
the wire format.
Splits the downloads area 60/40 with a new info pane that adapts to the
selected download's status: header (filename, user, size, status, save
path, bitrate, length) plus queued-specific fields (queue position, peer
slots, peer upload speed) or live progress/speed/ETA when transferring.
Plumbs queue position via a new ClientOperation::PlaceInQueueUpdate so
PlaceInQueueResponse messages from peers reach DownloadStore, and threads
search-time metadata (bitrate, length, peer slots/speed) onto Download
through a new download_with_metadata entry point.
Michel de Graaf