On Windows, crossterm's console backend never emits Event::Paste: a terminal paste arrives as a per-character key burst that the event loop reassembles with timing heuristics. Three of its bounds split real pastes into fragments: - the 10 ms continue window is below one Windows scheduler quantum (~15.6 ms), so a routine mid-burst gap ended collection early; - the 5000-event safety cap truncated any paste past ~5 KB; - the 2 ms detection window missed bursts whose second chunk lagged, so collection never started. Each fragment became its own synthetic paste. The paste chip then held only the first fragment, and pasting again could never byte-equal the chip content, so repaste-to-expand inserted a duplicate instead of expanding — while macOS worked, because the unix parser buffers a bracketed paste to the end marker and always delivers one whole event. Widen the continue window past one quantum (25 ms), raise the cap above any real paste (200k events), and skip the detection window entirely when the batch already holds a >=8-key burst, which typing and auto-repeat never produce. Unix paths are untouched: batches containing a real Event::Paste never enter this reassembly. Covered by a paused-clock test that trickles a burst tail with one-quantum gaps and asserts it reassembles into a single paste.
kigi-tui
Terminal UI (TUI) for Kigi. Provides the interactive full-screen interface including the scrollback view, prompt input, session management, and all modal dialogs.
Architecture
src/
├── app/ # Application state and event handling
│ ├── app_view.rs # Top-level state (welcome screen, agents, config)
│ ├── agent_view/ # Per-session agent view (struct in mod.rs + per-domain impl modules)
│ ├── dispatch/ # Action → Effect dispatcher (router + per-domain modules)
│ ├── effects.rs # Async side effects (ACP calls, file I/O)
│ └── event_loop.rs # Main event loop (input, ticks, ACP messages)
├── views/ # UI components
│ ├── prompt_widget.rs # Text editor with file search, slash, history
│ ├── welcome/ # Welcome screen (logo, menu, prompt)
│ ├── extensions_modal.rs # Extensions modal (hooks, plugins, marketplace, skills, MCP servers)
│ ├── file_search/ # @-completion dropdown and line viewer
│ ├── slash_dropdown.rs# /command completion dropdown
│ └── ... # Scrollback, status bar, panes, etc.
├── scrollback/ # Message history rendering
├── slash/ # Slash command registry and built-in commands
├── appearance/ # Theme and pager.toml config
├── acp/ # Agent Communication Protocol client state
└── render/ # Low-level rendering helpers (color, wrapping, etc.)
Key Concepts
- AppView — owns the welcome screen, agent sessions, and global config
- AgentView — one per session; owns the prompt, scrollback, tool panes, and modals
- PromptWidget — text editor component with file search (
@), slash commands (/), history search, and paste elements - Action/Effect — Elm-style architecture: input → Action → dispatch → Effect → state update
Keyboard Shortcuts
| Key | Context | Action |
|---|---|---|
Ctrl+P or ? |
Agent screen | Open command palette |
Ctrl+L |
Any (non–VS Code family) | Open plugins/hooks modal; on VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf / Zed use /plugins or /hooks (Ctrl+L is mid-turn interject) |
Tab |
Prompt | Switch to scrollback |
Esc |
Turn running | No-op (does not cancel; use Ctrl+C) |
Esc Esc |
Idle, non-empty prompt | Clear prompt (within 800ms; first press shows hint) |
Esc Esc |
Idle, empty prompt + messages | Open rewind picker (silent first press) |
Ctrl+M |
Prompt | Toggle multiline mode |
Shift+Enter |
Prompt | Insert newline |
/ |
Prompt | Start slash command |
@ |
Prompt | Start file search |
! |
Prompt (empty) | Enter bash mode |
Ctrl+C |
Prompt (with text) | Clear prompt (even while turn running) |
Ctrl+C |
Prompt (empty) + turn running | Cancel running turn |
Docs
- Terminal Support & Troubleshooting — tmux/SSH truecolor, clipboard, mouse, diagnostics, /terminal-setup
- Hooks & Plugins Guide — managing hooks, plugins, and marketplace sources
- Custom Hooks Guide — creating, configuring, and writing your own hooks
- Hook Examples — sample hooks for common workflows
- Hooks Crate (
kigi-hooks) — hook runtime, event types, and execution engine - Plugin Marketplace Crate (
kigi-plugin-marketplace) — marketplace source loading, scanning, and install