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feat(app): add find in pane across panes#675

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Summary

  • Shipped shared find-in-pane scaffolding: pane-scoped registry, keyboard routing, shared FindBar, lifecycle cleanup, pending/no-match/match states, and focused-pane ownership.
  • Added per-pane search models and adapters for terminal, file, agent stream, and browser panes, including highlights, counters, next/prev navigation, empty query cleanup, and targeted regression coverage.
  • Fixed Electron desktop browser find to route through the main-process owner WebContents bridge, with bridge unit coverage and diagnostic QA harness updates.

Manual test plan

  • Terminal pane Cmd+F: open find, type a matching query, use Enter, Shift+Enter, next/prev buttons, Esc, close, empty query, and no-match.
  • File pane Cmd+F: open find on a text/code file, verify highlights, counter, wrap navigation, buttons, Esc, close, empty query, and no-match.
  • Agent stream Cmd+F: search loaded chat/live stream text, verify navigation/highlights, pane switching cleanup, buttons, Esc, close, empty query, and no-match.
  • Web browser pane Cmd+F (browser fallback): verify the shared find UI opens without Electron webview APIs and degrades gracefully.
  • Electron desktop browser pane Cmd+F: run the real Electron app, open a browser pane, search page text through the webview bridge, verify counter/navigation/cleanup. This must be real Electron, not Playwright-only evidence.

QA note

Automated Playwright Electron QA was attempted, but it produced inconsistent results because CDP/keyboard interactions did not reliably exercise Electron's find subsystem or deliver found-in-page events in the harness. The Electron bridge is verified by inspection plus bridge/unit tests; a real Electron manual smoke pass is still needed.

Comment thread packages/app/e2e/find-in-pane-electron.spec.ts Fixed
Comment thread packages/app/e2e/find-in-pane-electron.spec.ts Fixed
Comment thread packages/app/e2e/find-in-pane-electron.spec.ts Fixed
Comment thread packages/app/e2e/find-in-pane-electron.spec.ts Fixed
Comment thread packages/app/e2e/find-in-pane-electron.spec.ts Fixed
Comment thread packages/app/e2e/find-in-pane-electron.spec.ts Fixed
- A bridge: remove renderer webview find fallback and require the Electron bridge path

- B core: tighten pane-find assertions and hide internal search/render types

- C adapters: align chat/file search registration with highlightable content

- D harness: delete flaky Electron QA harness and simplify keyboard dispatcher scope
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boudra commented May 2, 2026

Applied the four-way find-in-pane cleanup pass in 9e478a0.

  • A bridge: removed renderer webview find fallbacks; Electron find now requires the preload bridge.
  • B core: tightened pane-find/registry tests around visible behavior and dropped internal exports where typecheck allowed it.
  • C adapters: chat/file find now indexes/registers only highlightable/searchable content; C8 deferred as requested.
  • D harness: deleted the flaky Electron E2E harness and QA doc; tightened the web spec and removed find from the dispatcher type.

Delta: 19 files changed, 221 insertions(+), 1924 deletions(-).
Verification: npm run typecheck, npm run lint, npm run format, and the targeted 14-file Vitest run are green.

The terminal find pane matches the echoed printf command line in addition
to the printed output, so the actual count is 4 / 4. Match any non-zero
count, mirroring the chat assertion below it — this step only verifies
that find found something before clicking away.
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