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Fix first commit-buffer key lookup and small-font newline geometry - #703
Fix two problems encountered while editing commit messages:
After Magit c c asynchronously opens the commit buffer, the first character can still use the status buffer's local keymap (a opens Apply instead of inserting text).
In VC's C-x v v commit editor, the small inverse-video separator below the summary occupies a normal-height row, producing a thick white band.
The reporter has tested the packaged macOS app with their normal configuration and confirmed that both fixes work as expected.
Reproduction
The input problem was reproduced both with real Magit/with-editor in a throwaway Git repository and without external packages: a timer selects a new buffer inside save-current-buffer, then queues two a events. Before the fix, the first event invokes the old buffer's binding and only the second is inserted. GNU inserts both.
The display problem was reproduced in a native GUI with log-edit-mode and its small-font separator. Before the fix, the separator retains the default row height; GNU renders a thin separator.
The committed GUI fixture provides both isolated reproductions:
Source and reference executables were built from GNU Emacs 31.1, commit a360712c9d272d950d8d8255ef74570f7e90b7d9.
Inspected:
src/keyboard.c: the command loop synchronizes the current buffer with the selected window before first-event keymap lookup, including after timers/process callbacks. Lisp-facing key readers retain their caller's current buffer.
src/xdisp.c: newline font extents and independent ascent/descent maxima; get_phys_cursor_geometry clips against full row height, including line spacing.
lisp/vc/log-edit.el: the separator intentionally uses a small, inverse-video, extended face.
The same two native GUI probes pass against the pinned GNU executable.
Root cause and solution
Command input
Current-buffer synchronization occurred before waiting for input and after binding lookup, leaving a gap when an asynchronous callback displayed another buffer but restored the old current buffer. Introduce an explicit key-reader buffer-selection policy. Only the command-loop reader synchronizes before resolving its first event; ordinary Lisp readers preserve existing behavior.
Newline geometry
Row geometry was seeded with default font extents, while authoritative content/newline resolution was limited to explicit non-default line-height policies. A small newline face therefore could not shrink its row.
Resolve actual content/newline extents for concrete-font rows when the newline does not cover both default ascent and descent. Preserve the ordinary default-font fast path and logical-cell row behavior. Share the predicate with prepared worker finalization and reuse its resolved newline geometry rather than calculating it twice.
Broader tests exposed two consistency issues as smaller rows became possible:
Forward worker admission must honor both matrix row capacity and the pixel frontier, as backward admission already does.
Replay cursor clipping must use full row height, matching fresh capture and GNU, rather than excluding line spacing from its clipping bound.
These are general rendering-path corrections, not Magit/VC-specific workarounds. No existing regression assertions were weakened.
Regression tests
command_loop_uses_selected_buffers_map_after_async_switch: failed before the input fix, passes afterward.
small_newline_face_shrinks_only_its_own_row: failed before the geometry fix ([13.0, 13.0, 13.0] row heights), passes afterward; also checks extension on/off and point movement.
Additional coverage for normal-size content sharing a small newline and terminal row geometry.
Two registered native GUI tests in crates/neomacs-gui-tests/tests/commit_editing.rs, covering asynchronous input and actual log-edit-mode separator geometry.
Existing worker/fresh-render parity and line-spacing tests exercise the corresponding prepared-row and cursor corrections.
Verification (initial two commits)
Executed on an Apple Silicon Mac:
RUSTFLAGS='-C link-arg=-Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names' cargo xtask fresh-build --release: passed, including generated bytecode and dumps.
cargo nextest run -p neomacs-layout-engine --no-fail-fast --test-threads 16: 3,338 run; 3,306 passed; 32 failed. Every remaining failure also failed when rerun with baseline production code. The suite is not fully green; there are no new failures in this comparison.
Native GUI harness, cargo nextest run -p neomacs-gui-tests --test gui -E 'test(commit_editing::)' --test-threads 1: 2 passed using the pinned GNU executable, and 2 passed using the final packaged Neomacs executable via NEOMACS_GUI_TEST_BINARY.
Real Magit probe against the final packaged app: passed; commit text starts with both queued a characters. The old executable did not insert both.
MACOS_APP_ONLY=1 MACOS_DISTRIBUTION_MODE=adhoc bash scripts/package-macos-app.sh --skip-build: passed, including bundle smoke test and bundled dump/archlib resolution.
Modified Rust files' formatting checks, git diff --check, and GNU Lisp check-parens for the fixture: passed.
Production-library Clippy: passed with existing warnings. All-targets Clippy remains blocked by six denied lints in unchanged existing tests (approx_constant, eq_op, three invisible_characters, and non_octal_unix_permissions). These were not suppressed or edited.
An earlier suite run hit 45 stale-bytecode guards after a --no-byte-compile rebuild regenerated loaddefs.el. A complete fresh build repaired the generated tree; the final full-suite run has no stale-bytecode failures. No stale-bytecode checks were bypassed.
Limitations
Native execution was verified on macOS ARM64 only; Linux and Windows builds/runtime tests were not run.
The 32 baseline layout failures and existing all-targets Clippy errors remain unresolved.
A separate preexisting display-property replacement-string face-realization issue remains outside this PR; ordinary overlay-string newlines are covered by the review follow-up below.
Review follow-up — 6796eb24c4
Addressed the two CodeRabbit comments and the backend-selection note:
Probe ordering: queue a finish-command sentinel after both input characters instead of asserting from another timer. Add a deliberately delayed startup regression and install an independent failure watchdog before setup. Isolate log-edit-mode from checkout directory-local settings, which otherwise blocked the source-tree GUI probe.
Overlay geometry: measure the primary newline font for concrete-font string rendering, then preserve the finalizer's authoritative extents through both measure/render conversions into row geometry. Keep the logical-cell/TTY guard: GNU terminal rows do not shrink with font height. The regression covers before/after strings, extension on/off, mixed content, GUI/TTY, following-row positions, and point movement.
Backend: honor NEOMACS_GUI_TEST_BACKEND, including Wayland and X11 aliases, with native macOS and Linux X11 defaults. Add pure selector tests including unknown-value rejection.
Documentation: add contract docstrings to modified rendering/input functions and focused test/helper documentation. The automated coverage check must be recalculated; no thresholds were changed.
Follow-up verification
Delayed timer and overlay regressions were reproduced before their fixes. The old native overlay probe reported normal=14 separator=14.
cargo xtask fresh-build --release --skip-build after that compile: passed, regenerating bytecode and matching dumps. Only the already-completed Cargo stage was skipped; byte compilation was not skipped.
cargo nextest run -p neomacs-layout-engine --no-fail-fast --test-threads 16: 3,339 run; 3,307 passed; 32 failed. The failure set is exactly the same as the verified initial version; no new failures.
GUI test target: 6/6 passed with Neomacs and 6/6 with the pinned GNU reference (four native GUI probes and two backend-selection tests).
Modified-file Rust formatting, patch whitespace, and pinned GNU check-parens: passed.
The initially blocked GUI run was retained in the logs and fixed by isolating directory-local mode setup; the final complete runs above passed. Linux/Wayland and Windows runtime execution remain unverified on this macOS host. The previously packaged app was not replaced during this follow-up.
Follow GNU Emacs 31.1 keyboard.c's fix_current_buffer behavior before resolving the first command-loop event. Keep Lisp key readers bound to their caller's current buffer.
Add timer-driven regressions for command-loop selection and Lisp-reader isolation.
Resolve small newline rows from actual content and font extents, preserving the ordinary default-font fast path. Apply the same rule to prepared worker rows, enforce both viewport capacity bounds, and use full row height for replay cursor clipping.
Cover log-edit separator height, mixed content, point motion, terminal geometry, and asynchronous commit-buffer input with unit and native GUI regressions.
No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.
Walkthrough
The changes add selected-window buffer handling for command-loop key reads and adjust newline row-height resolution and visible-row coverage. Unit and GUI tests cover asynchronous buffer switches, separator height, and related row-layout behavior.
Key-sequence options distinguish reads that follow the current buffer from command-loop reads that follow the selected window. Selected-window reads synchronize the current buffer before the first event. Regression tests check key resolution after asynchronous buffer switches.
Newline height resolution uses line-height policy and face metrics. The finalizer can use captured newline font metrics and returns resolved metrics when resolution runs. Rendering passes those metrics into row measurement. Tests cover small-font separators, rows with normal-sized content, and terminal frames.
Visible-row scanning is capped by text-body height and remaining non-chrome matrix capacity. The completeness check uses the computed visible-row count and preserves bridge exclusion.
The GUI fixture checks asynchronous buffer selection and separator height. Linux and macOS tests run the probes and check for successful completion and a pass marker.
The previously identified overlay-separator height issue is addressed. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied evidence.
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Review comments at @crates/neomacs-gui-tests/fixtures/commit-editing.el:
- Around line 5-28: Update the probe timing around neo-commit-probe-finish so
its checks run only after queued key commands have been processed, rather than
racing timer service. Keep a separate failure watchdog so delaying the check
cannot leave the GUI test hanging.
Review comments at @crates/neomacs-layout-engine/src/display_row/finalizer.rs:
- Around line 108-118: Update the resolve_height gating in the row finalizer so
an overlay string’s small-font newline is resolved even when the row is
otherwise empty and measurement mode does not use concrete font geometry.
Propagate the resolved newline height into the row geometry while preserving the
existing height-resolution behavior for other row types.
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Incremental review of 50aca0928e2ba87294446daa7cc1c8bafb885d41..6796eb24c4478a8144c22d5bb30d205c13f71c63 (HEAD 6796eb24c4478a8144c22d5bb30d205c13f71c63). The follow-up commit adds a command-dispatched sentinel/watchdog to the commit-editing probe, propagates authoritative resolved newline metrics across row render state, applies overlay newline font metrics in the renderer, honors NEOMACS_GUI_TEST_BACKEND aliases, and extends regression coverage. Previously raised GUI-probe timing and overlay newline geometry concerns appear addressed in this delta.
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The change modifies core command-loop keymap resolution and layout/rendering geometry (row height/cursor/newline handling), creating broad cross-backend behavioral risk and GNU Emacs compatibility edge cases that require maintainer validation beyond the added regression tests.
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What changed in this PR
This pull request addresses two GNU-compatibility regressions in commit-message editing: (1) the first keypress after an asynchronous buffer display could be looked up using the previously-current buffer’s keymap, and (2) small-font newline/separator rows in GUI rendering could incorrectly retain default row height, producing an oversized separator band.
Changes:
Adjust command-loop key reading to synchronize buffer/keymap lookup appropriately after async buffer/display changes, while preserving Lisp-facing reader behavior.
Improve GUI row/newline geometry resolution so small newline faces can shrink only their own row, and align related rendering-path behavior (worker admission/cursor clipping) with the corrected geometry.
Add/extend regression coverage, including core eval tests, layout-engine tests, and native GUI tests with an Elisp fixture for commit-editing probes.
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Blocking review note (moderate):
crates/neomacs-gui-tests/tests/commit_editing.rs: the test hardcodes GuiBackend::LinuxX11 and ignores NEOMACS_GUI_TEST_BACKEND, which can fail on Wayland-only runners; align backend selection with the environment (defaulting to X11 when unset).
Dispatch probe assertions after queued commands, retain an early watchdog, and isolate directory-local setup. Honor the requested GUI backend and document the changed contracts.
Measure overlay newline fonts and preserve authoritative extents through both source-render paths without changing terminal cell geometry. Cover delayed startup, overlay rows, and backend selection.
Pushed 6796eb2 addressing both CodeRabbit findings. It also honors NEOMACS_GUI_TEST_BACKEND (including Wayland/X11 aliases) and adds contract documentation for the changed functions. Updated the PR body with reproductions and follow-up verification: 6/6 GUI-target tests on each of Neomacs and pinned GNU; 3,307/3,339 layout tests passed, with exactly the same 32 existing failures; release build, bytecode/dump generation, library Clippy, formatting, and Lisp checks passed. Linux compositor execution remains untested on this Mac. Automated re-review/docstring coverage is pending.
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The change combines subtle, compatibility-sensitive command-loop keymap lookup and row-geometry/cursor clipping behavior, so it needs human validation of invariants and cross-platform edge cases (especially non-macOS backends) beyond what the included tests cover.
@eval-exec I think all issues were covered! thanks for the quick response!
BTW, great work, in mac is really snappy, will test it next in linux (in windows got to many errors, related to unknown address, for magit, and basically package wasn't working, trying to fetch unexistant file locks in url/cache/https and TLS failing all the connections... I don't have a fast windows machine to compile and test :( mine is from 2012.
Yes—the PR documents an oracle-first investigation against GNU Emacs 31.1 at the pinned commit, including inspection of keyboard.c, xdisp.c, and log-edit.el, followed by comparison with the GNU executable’s behavior. To be precise, my earlier Greptile comment was a high-level review of the changes; it didn’t claim that I independently repeated that full source audit.
@eval-exec I cannot confirm that I studied GNU Emacs source before posting the findings. The published analysis chains show Neomacs code inspection, but they do not show a GNU source inspection. I should not treat the PR’s GNU references as verification.
I have now checked excerpts from the pinned source:
keyboard.c selects the window buffer before reading a command.
log-edit.el defines the separator face with :height 0.1.
These excerpts are not a complete compatibility review. I did not run the GNU oracle tests. The author reports that the GUI tests passed against both implementations.
The repository’s review guidance requires observable GNU compatibility and prefers oracle tests for compatibility bugs.
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## 1. Fundamental Principle: GNU Emacs Compatibility
Neomacs aims to preserve GNU Emacs's observable behavior, including:
- Elisp evaluation semantics.
- Return values and data types.
- Error conditions and error data.
- Side effects and mutation behavior.
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# AGENTS.md — Neomacs Contributor Guidelines
## 1. Fundamental Principle: GNU Emacs Compatibility
### Canonical GNU Emacs Oracle
The GNU Emacs checkout path is environment-specific. Do not hardcode a contributor's personal directory.
Two geometry mismatches measured at revision 6796eb24, compared with GNU Emacs 31.1, commit a360712c9d272d950d8d8255ef74570f7e90b7d9, pinned in parity-reference.toml. The oracle was built with the repository’s recipe and passed check-gnu-oracle.sh.
1. A small newline in a display-property string does not shrink its row.
On the GNU GTK frame, posn-at-point after redisplay measures a 3 px replacement row versus a 23 px normal row. Neomacs’s layout-engine GUI frame produces a 20 px replacement row, equal to its normal row. Both implementations shrink the buffer-face and overlay controls to 3 px, so differing default font metrics do not explain the discrepancy.
2. Cursor-only replay drops line spacing on a short newline row.
With line-spacing set to 5 and a :height 0.1 face on the empty line in "alpha\n\nbeta\n", GNU measures an 8 px row and an 8 px cursor. The cursor height was measured from red pixels in its Cairo frame export.
Neomacs’s layout engine produces an 8 px cursor during fresh rendering, but 3 px after point-only replay on the same 8 px row. A fresh engine restores the 8 px cursor.
The replay fallback retains the height without spacing when no text glyph covers point. GNU’s cursor calculation uses the full row height as its bound.
Scope: GNU was tested in a real GTK window; Neomacs was tested through its layout-engine GUI frame with FreeType metrics. The Neomacs application window and scroll-replay case were not exercised. The earlier overlay-newline concern is retracted: it is fixed.
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Summary
The command-loop change matches GNU Emacs 31.1 read_key_sequence: command_loop_1 passes fix_current_buffer, and the buffer is reconciled only when first_event is still nil, after the input method runs and before map lookup (keyboard.c around 11365–11378). Lisp readers stay on CurrentBuffer, which matches read_key_sequence_vs hardcoding that flag to false. The newline work correctly lets a smaller concrete-font newline shrink an otherwise empty row instead of treating the frame default as a minimum, and the cursor-only replay clip now uses full row height, including line spacing, as get_phys_cursor_geometry does (xdisp.ch = min(h, row->height)). The dominant residual risk is that the new height predicate is one-sided, so a newline-only line whose face is taller than the frame font still cannot grow.
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[suggestion]newline_requires_height_resolution opts in only when the newline ascent or descent is strictly smaller than the frame default (or the policy is not Default). GNU append_space_for_newline does not treat the frame font as a minimum on an empty row: when n == 0 it replaces it->ascent/it->descent from the newline face's font and line-height property, then zeros glyph_row->height so compute_line_metrics rebuilds from those values (xdisp.c around 24245–24316). A newline-only line with a larger face (for example :height 2.0 on the sole newline) therefore still keeps the seeded frame row height. Mixed rows are fine, because a taller glyph already grows the row through ordinary accumulation; the hole is the empty-line case this predicate was added to handle.
Suggestion: Treat any concrete-font newline whose ascent or descent differs from the frame default as requiring resolution, not only a smaller one. resolve_line_height already maxes the newline font with visible content, so a taller empty line grows and a short newline beside normal text does not shrink that text.
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Addressed in follow-up #707. The shared predicate now checks any differing ascent/descent, with controls for tall buffer newlines and regressions for tall overlay/replacement newlines. Broader verification also exposed a logical raise/lower extent bug; the finalizer now follows GNU’s directional enlargement rule rather than shrinking the opposite extent. All 11 native/selector checks pass on the final Neomacs executable and the pinned GNU reference; the body records the unchanged 32 baseline layout failures.
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[suggestion]ReadKeySequenceOptions::for_command_loop is the only caller that sets KeySequenceBufferSelection::SelectedWindow. GNU also passes fix_current_buffer = true from read_menu_command (keyboard.c:1700), not only from command_loop_1. Neomacs popup navigation still goes through read_popup_menu_key_sequence → read_key_sequence() (crates/neovm-core/src/emacs_core/display/display/mod.rs), which uses Default and therefore CurrentBuffer. A timer or process filter that displays another buffer and restores the old current buffer during a menu read can still bind the next menu key in the previous map. The same gap exists for the interrupted-tty and "read_char returned a buffer" replays in keyboard.c (around 11288 and 11321); those are not represented here.
Suggestion: Give the popup-menu reader for_command_loop() (or an equivalent SelectedWindow option). Keep Lisp read-key-sequence on CurrentBuffer.
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Addressed in follow-up #707: the existing popup reader explicitly opts into SelectedWindow, while Lisp readers keep CurrentBuffer. A timer-driven real-reader regression failed with the old local command and now passes; the existing Lisp-current-buffer controls remain intact (263 broader input/menu checks passed). GNU’s interrupted-terminal/buffer-sentinel machinery has no corresponding existing Neomacs path; the PR explicitly documents that limitation instead of claiming those separate cases are implemented.
Follow-up PR #707 also fixes both geometry cases from the post-merge note: display-property replacement newlines now receive primary-font metrics and authoritative row extents; cursor-only replay resolves no-glyph newline cursors against the full spaced row. Native regressions fail before correction and pass on both the final Neomacs executable and pinned GNU 31.1. The PR includes full reproduction, source references, verification, and platform limitations.
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Problem
Fix two problems encountered while editing commit messages:
c casynchronously opens the commit buffer, the first character can still use the status buffer's local keymap (aopens Apply instead of inserting text).C-x v vcommit editor, the small inverse-video separator below the summary occupies a normal-height row, producing a thick white band.The reporter has tested the packaged macOS app with their normal configuration and confirmed that both fixes work as expected.
Reproduction
The input problem was reproduced both with real Magit/with-editor in a throwaway Git repository and without external packages: a timer selects a new buffer inside
save-current-buffer, then queues twoaevents. Before the fix, the first event invokes the old buffer's binding and only the second is inserted. GNU inserts both.The display problem was reproduced in a native GUI with
log-edit-modeand its small-font separator. Before the fix, the separator retains the default row height; GNU renders a thin separator.The committed GUI fixture provides both isolated reproductions:
GNU Emacs reference
Source and reference executables were built from GNU Emacs 31.1, commit
a360712c9d272d950d8d8255ef74570f7e90b7d9.Inspected:
src/keyboard.c: the command loop synchronizes the current buffer with the selected window before first-event keymap lookup, including after timers/process callbacks. Lisp-facing key readers retain their caller's current buffer.src/xdisp.c: newline font extents and independent ascent/descent maxima;get_phys_cursor_geometryclips against full row height, including line spacing.lisp/vc/log-edit.el: the separator intentionally uses a small, inverse-video, extended face.The same two native GUI probes pass against the pinned GNU executable.
Root cause and solution
Command input
Current-buffer synchronization occurred before waiting for input and after binding lookup, leaving a gap when an asynchronous callback displayed another buffer but restored the old current buffer. Introduce an explicit key-reader buffer-selection policy. Only the command-loop reader synchronizes before resolving its first event; ordinary Lisp readers preserve existing behavior.
Newline geometry
Row geometry was seeded with default font extents, while authoritative content/newline resolution was limited to explicit non-default line-height policies. A small newline face therefore could not shrink its row.
Resolve actual content/newline extents for concrete-font rows when the newline does not cover both default ascent and descent. Preserve the ordinary default-font fast path and logical-cell row behavior. Share the predicate with prepared worker finalization and reuse its resolved newline geometry rather than calculating it twice.
Broader tests exposed two consistency issues as smaller rows became possible:
These are general rendering-path corrections, not Magit/VC-specific workarounds. No existing regression assertions were weakened.
Regression tests
command_loop_uses_selected_buffers_map_after_async_switch: failed before the input fix, passes afterward.lisp_key_reader_preserves_current_buffer_after_async_display: protects Lisp-facing reader behavior.small_newline_face_shrinks_only_its_own_row: failed before the geometry fix ([13.0, 13.0, 13.0]row heights), passes afterward; also checks extension on/off and point movement.crates/neomacs-gui-tests/tests/commit_editing.rs, covering asynchronous input and actuallog-edit-modeseparator geometry.Verification (initial two commits)
Executed on an Apple Silicon Mac:
RUSTFLAGS='-C link-arg=-Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names' cargo xtask fresh-build --release: passed, including generated bytecode and dumps.cargo nextest run -p neomacs-layout-engine --no-fail-fast --test-threads 16: 3,338 run; 3,306 passed; 32 failed. Every remaining failure also failed when rerun with baseline production code. The suite is not fully green; there are no new failures in this comparison.cargo nextest run -p neomacs-gui-tests --test gui -E 'test(commit_editing::)' --test-threads 1: 2 passed using the pinned GNU executable, and 2 passed using the final packaged Neomacs executable viaNEOMACS_GUI_TEST_BINARY.acharacters. The old executable did not insert both.MACOS_APP_ONLY=1 MACOS_DISTRIBUTION_MODE=adhoc bash scripts/package-macos-app.sh --skip-build: passed, including bundle smoke test and bundled dump/archlib resolution.codesign --verify --deep --strict --verbose=2 dist/neomacs.app: passed.git diff --check, and GNU Lispcheck-parensfor the fixture: passed.approx_constant,eq_op, threeinvisible_characters, andnon_octal_unix_permissions). These were not suppressed or edited.An earlier suite run hit 45 stale-bytecode guards after a
--no-byte-compilerebuild regeneratedloaddefs.el. A complete fresh build repaired the generated tree; the final full-suite run has no stale-bytecode failures. No stale-bytecode checks were bypassed.Limitations
Review follow-up —
6796eb24c4Addressed the two CodeRabbit comments and the backend-selection note:
log-edit-modefrom checkout directory-local settings, which otherwise blocked the source-tree GUI probe.NEOMACS_GUI_TEST_BACKEND, including Wayland and X11 aliases, with native macOS and Linux X11 defaults. Add pure selector tests including unknown-value rejection.Follow-up verification
normal=14 separator=14.cargo build -p neomacs --features webview --release: passed.cargo xtask fresh-build --release --skip-buildafter that compile: passed, regenerating bytecode and matching dumps. Only the already-completed Cargo stage was skipped; byte compilation was not skipped.cargo nextest run -p neomacs-layout-engine --no-fail-fast --test-threads 16: 3,339 run; 3,307 passed; 32 failed. The failure set is exactly the same as the verified initial version; no new failures.cargo clippy -p neomacs-layout-engine -p neovm-core -p neomacs-gui-tests --lib: passed with warnings.check-parens: passed.The initially blocked GUI run was retained in the logs and fixed by isolating directory-local mode setup; the final complete runs above passed. Linux/Wayland and Windows runtime execution remain unverified on this macOS host. The previously packaged app was not replaced during this follow-up.