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fix(web): numbered composer lists nest and lift correctly#17138

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Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#17124

Tab on a numbered composer item now nests it under the item above at that item's Markdown content column. The child is numbered from 1, or continues an existing nested sibling, and the caret stays on its text. In the plain composer, Shift+Enter on an empty nested item moves it out one level and renumbers the parent list; a further press leaves the list. The earlier description's verification and evidence sections describe older heads and committed fixtures that are gone, so the description is kept below and in full.

Original description by @michal-billtech

Problem

Typing 1. first, Shift+Enter, Tab, and nested in either web composer mode kept the outer item number and inserted only two spaces. The sent Markdown rendered as a flat list. Shift+Enter on an empty nested item in the plain composer also left the list instead of lifting one level.

Change

Tab aligns children with their parent's Markdown content column and starts or continues the child numbering while preserving the caret. Empty nested items lift one level before leaving the list. The backward scan respects multiline mention chips and tab-separated markers.

Reuses #17138, preserving @michal-billtech's commits and adapting the fix to current main's caret and renumbering helpers.

Scope and approval

Fixes https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/17124

Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. The change is confined to the shared web/desktop composer helper and its focused regressions. Shift+Tab retains its existing shortcut.

The original's Verification and Evidence sections: full original description.

Takeover

Taken over from @michal-billtech, whose first commit and approach (nest to the parent's content column, lift empty nested items) are kept.

  • Content columns now come from parseListMarker for every marker type, parent and sibling matching compares visual column width (tabs and spaces alike), and lifting into an ordered parent renumbers that list's later items with the existing renumberFollowingItems.
  • Tests cut to 7 cases in composer-list-continuation.test.ts, each failing on main; the user guide's Shift+Enter line now mentions the one-level lift.
  • Dropped the committed evidence fixtures scripts/fixtures/issue-17124/ and their knip entry; no test read them.

Evidence

A–N in plain/rich web composers. Before becf853def → After 643fca70b2. Captured at 643fca70b2; the final head 2adebedc7d only merges main, with no change to the helper, its tests, the key handler or the docs. A plain, B plain and I rich were recaptured after the first audit.

Linux; agent-browser 0.39.4 / Chrome for Testing 156.0.8078.47 headless; 1440×900 light; DPR/zoom/font scaling 1/100%/100%; interface/composer 16px/14px; reduced motion; browser/server clock 2026-10-27 02:00:00 UTC. Fresh synthetic RPC/app seeds, no live userdata or provider turn. A/I recordings are 10fps; CDP screenshots encoded afterward replace the unreliable live encoder except Before A.

Original index · Replacement steps, timestamps and pixel audit · Original scripts · Changed scripts and raw captures

A plain steps — Before: 00:03.9 1; 00:06.6 .; 00:09.3 Space; 00:11.9 parent; 00:16.1 Shift+Enter; 00:18.8 Tab; 00:21.5 child; 00:25.4 paste existing child/caret; 00:29.2 Tab; 00:31.9 X; 00:34.9 Backspace. After: 00:03.9 1; 00:06.7 .; 00:09.4 Space; 00:12.1 parent; 00:16.1 Shift+Enter; 00:18.9 Tab; 00:21.6 child; 00:25.5 paste existing child/caret; 00:29.4 Tab; 00:32.1 X; 00:35.0 Backspace. Each key state held ≥2.5s.
I rich list-ready times — Before: 00:04.1 middle lift; 00:18.3 paren parent; 00:32.6 delimiter stops renumber; 00:47.2 prose stops renumber; 01:01.5 shallower stops renumber; each: hold full list, Shift+Enter, hold, X. After: 00:04.2 middle lift; 00:18.4 paren parent; 00:32.4 delimiter stops renumber; 00:46.4 prose stops renumber; 01:00.4 shallower stops renumber; each: hold full list, Shift+Enter, hold, X. Composer max-height 420px keeps every full list visible. Rich uses the editor’s existing structural lift; all five input/output documents match.

Recording — 1440×900 lightBeforeAfter
A plain replacementBefore AAfter A
I rich replacement — structural parityBefore IAfter I
plain A–N; A superseded abovebefore-plain.mp4
becf853def		after-plain.mp4
643fca70b2
rich A–N; I superseded abovebefore-rich.mp4
becf853def		after-rich.mp4
643fca70b2

Sheets: whole-viewport Before/After, Diff0 ×16, DiffT (2% fuzz). New stills pass two screenshots 500ms apart with AE=0; mouse parked outside composer, focus off Send. B: AE0=380, AE2%=371, bbox (377,805)–(429,816); every changed pixel is composer text.

RowPlain sheetRich sheet
APlain ARich A
BPlain BRich B
CPlain CRich C
DPlain DRich D
EPlain ERich E
FPlain FRich F
GPlain GRich G
HPlain HRich H
IPlain IRich I
JPlain JRich J
KPlain KRich K
LPlain LRich L
MPlain MRich M
NPlain NRich N

Rich J: the rich composer lifts through its own structural list command, unchanged by this PR; Before and After match. Checked-task fixture retains nested items on both revisions; no task-parent exit claim. M retains the existing continuation-prose limitation on both revisions; this capture does not claim that limitation is fixed.

Additional sheets: plain-A-sent · plain-B-sent · rich-A-sent · rich-B-sent · harness-H · harness-L · harness-N

A sent — 390×844 dark responsive web; Narrow sheet. Before · After · Diff0 · DiffT
A/B sent evidence is RPC-seeded real renderer; Submit path not exercised, using exact edited snapshots with defer_start. H whitespace, L rich prefix and N unreachable/literal-answer states remain labelled harness-only. Native mobile is outside scope; desktop wraps web.

Verification log
  • Review round 1: reviewer A (Codex gpt-6.1-sol) MERGE, reviewer B (Claude Opus 5.5) MERGE; no confirmed bugs. Both asked for the tab-separated parent and multiline-chip Tab cases, which were added. Noted and left as on main: Tab stops at continuation prose or a blank line and falls back to two spaces; Tab does not renumber the outer list.
  • Tests: composer-list-continuation.test.ts 18 on main → 25 (7 takeover cases, all red against main's helper). vp run check:changed green on 2adebedc7d.
  • Proof audit: pass 1 matrix of 14 rows (matrix); pass 2 found A, B, I capture defects and a wrong J expectation; A, B, I recaptured and J reworded; the auditor's independent rebuild of rich A matched to zero pixels.
  • Not exercised: the ordinary Submit/provider turn for the sent-message rows (seeded through RPC into the real renderer). Native mobile does not use this helper; desktop wraps the same web code.
  • CI: fork head; GitHub CI may await approval.
  • Claude Opus 5.5 (lead, tests, implementation, reviewer B) and Codex gpt-6.1-sol (reviewer A, proof audit, captures), in T3 Code.

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Verdict: Approved at 0b4e119

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused composer bug fix that corrects Markdown list nesting and caret placement for Tab and nested empty-item handling. Runtime changes are confined to list editing, with targeted tests covering ordered, bullet, task, multi-level, and fallback cases.

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Walkthrough

The composer now uses preceding list markers to indent numbered items with Tab and to lift empty nested items with Enter. Tests cover nested numbering, parent-list renumbering, and caret placement.

Changes: Composer list editing

Layer / File(s)Summary
Empty nested-item continuation
apps/web/src/composer-list-continuation.ts, apps/web/src/composer-list-continuation.test.ts		List markers now record their content columns. Enter on an empty nested item replaces it with the parent-level marker and renumbers following ordered items when applicable. Tests check lifting behavior and caret placement.
Tab nesting and caret placement
apps/web/src/composer-list-continuation.ts, apps/web/src/composer-list-continuation.test.ts		Tab now derives nested indentation from preceding items and their content columns. Nested ordered items continue the matching sibling sequence or start at 1. Tests check indentation, numbering, and caret placement.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: saphid

Merge Risk: External image Low · previous review 9b9c0

Tab nesting remains incorrect when a numbered parent has a continuation line. This is a bounded limitation that can be accepted for merge or addressed before merging.

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Title checkPassedThe title clearly and concisely describes the main change: correcting numbered-list nesting and lifting in the web composer.
Linked Issues checkPassedWhole-PR diff (base becf853d to head 9b9c0c88) changes only apps/web/src/composer-list-continuation.ts and its test file. Requirements from #17124 and the code that meets them:

- Tab nests an ordered…
Out of Scope Changes checkPassedThe whole-PR diff contains two files: composer-list-continuation.ts and composer-list-continuation.test.ts. No fixture, Knip, README, or ChatComposer file appears in this diff. Earlier fixture-only co…
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Whole-PR diff (base becf853d to head 9b9c0c88) changes only apps/web/src/composer-list-continuation.ts and its test file. Requirements from #17124 and the code that meets them:

  • Tab nests an ordered item at the parent content column. listIndentForTab takes indent from the parent's contentColumn (computed in parseListMarker and contentColumn()). "1. " gives 3 columns and "10. " gives 4. Tests cover "1. parent\n2. child" to "1. parent\n 1. child" and "10. parent\n11. child" to "10. parent\n 1. child".
  • A first nested child starts at 1. nestedNumber() returns "1" when no previous child exists.
  • An existing nested sibling continues its numbering. previousChild logic plus nestedNumber() return "2" in the test "1. parent\n 1. first\n2. second".
  • Caret stays on the item text. cursorAfter is computed for both indent and marker cases. The test checks cursorAfter.
  • Shift+Enter on an empty nested item lifts one level. listContinuationForEnter() uses parentMarker() and nextMarkerText(parent). The test "1. parent\n 1. child\n 1. " yields " 2. ", then "2. ", then an empty line.
  • Top-level empty items still exit the list. With no parent, the replacement is empty, as before.
  • Parent numbering after a lift is corrected. renumberFollowingItems() is applied. The test "1. a\n 1. \n2. b" yields "1. a\n2. \n3. b" with the caret at the new marker. I traced this case by hand and it matches.
  • Fallback. When no parent exists, the two-space insertion is kept.
  • Both composer modes. The issue states both modes route Tab through listIndentForTab. That call path is outside this diff. The function signature is unchanged in the diff, so existing callers still apply.
  • Shift+Tab is a proposed option that the issue asks the maintainer to decide. The issue states that Shift+Enter gives the way out. The PR keeps the existing Shift+Tab shortcut, so this is not a required item.

Unresolved points (not issue requirements): the PR description cites regression tests for bullets, tasks, tab-separated markers, and multiline mention chips. The test diff at this head covers ordered cases only. Tab on a line that is already deeper than the item above falls back to two spaces. I did not run the test suite. Verdicts rest on code reading and the test expectations.

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The whole-PR diff contains two files: composer-list-continuation.ts and composer-list-continuation.test.ts. No fixture, Knip, README, or ChatComposer file appears in this diff. Earlier fixture-only commits were dropped, as shown by commit be140fe. The changes map to #17124:

  • parseListMarker and contentColumn(): compute content columns for Tab nesting. Task regex group indexes shift, but task matching is unchanged.
  • indentWidth(line, fromColumn): tab-stop handling used by contentColumn. The default call is unchanged.
  • listMarkersAbove, parentMarker, nestedNumber, listIndentForTab: Tab nesting and sibling numbering.
  • listContinuationForEnter and renumberFollowingItems: empty-item lift and parent renumbering.
  • Tests: cover the new Tab and Enter behavior.

Bullet and task items share the parser path. The issue states bullet indent is unaffected, and the fallback keeps two spaces for those cases. No unrelated file or behavior change appears in the diff. The earlier assessment cited ChatComposer cursor propagation and documentation changes. Neither appears in the reviewed whole-PR diff, so they do not count as changes here.

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The pull request description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification information. It explains the issue, implementation, linked issue, focused tests, observed results, UI evidence, limitations, and agent details. The description is lengthy and references preserved historical evidence, but it remains relevant and complete.

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JJulius Marminge13d ago

Taking over this one as maintainer. I will keep this focused on Tab producing real numbered-list nesting, preserve the contributor commits, integrate current main, and verify plain and rich composer caret behavior. Credit to @michal-billtech for the original fix.

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  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/composer-nested-ordered-list36b357b
  • fix(web): simplify numbered composer list nesting0666245
  • fix(web): keep caret before a nested list marker1f65f7f
  • test(web): reproduce numbered composer list nesting (#17124)b40c4d9
  • fix(web): Tab nests numbered composer items as real Markdown listse8a8f62
  • Merge preserved numbered-list fix after adapting it to main903b0e3
  • fix(web): Tab nests under tab-separated numbered parents at their content column1fc61c6
  • fix(web): list nesting ignores markers inside multiline mention chips53ba38b
  • test(web): add reusable composer list evidence fixtures03613cb
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-17124ae03808
  • fix(ci): register composer list browser fixture with knip7b595cb
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JJulius Marminge10d ago

The fixture portability finding is fixed in ac810c1f08: the runtime import is relative, the README accepts a checkout path, and thread creation receives that path explicitly. Syntax, lint, formatting, targeted Knip and path-resolution checks pass. Composer runtime bytes are unchanged. The continuation-line example uses the same two-space fallback on both this PR and main 044f07257c. That pre-existing limitation was reviewed and remains outside this focused nesting and empty-item lifting fix.

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  • chore: drop composer list evidence fixtures from the PRbe140fe
  • test(web): takeover tests for nested numbered lists in the composer0804c13
  • fix(web): nest numbered list items at the parent's content column1120874
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into pr-171389b9c0c8
  • test(web): cover tab-separated parents and multiline chips when nesting643fca7
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into pr-171382adebed
  • Merge branch 'main' into fix/composer-nested-ordered-list7259726