[aakashns]

Four changes you asked for, plus closing #31 in favour of the three-way styling setting.

What changed

Markdown styling setting. Settings → Markdown styling: full (default, same as before), minimal (the markdown symbols are faded, italics and green code stay; no bold), or off (plain text). Shown as full | minimal | off. Links still open with Ctrl+click in every mode, and History uses the same styling.

Settings explain themselves. Each setting now has a faded line under it saying what the current value does (it changes when the value does), with a line between settings. A bar on the left marks the selected setting (no highlighted block). Settings with a few options show them all (on | off, full | minimal | off), with the current one highlighted: ←/→ or a click picks one, and Enter goes to the next.

full	minimal	off

Lists carry on. Enter in a list item starts the next one with the same bullet, the next number, or an empty [ ] task box. Quotes (> ) carry on too.

• Enter on an empty item ends the list. If the item is nested, it comes out one level instead.
• Shift+Enter (Option+Enter, or Shift+Enter with your Alacritty config) always gives a plain new line.
• With the cursor at the start of an item (up to the end of its bullet, number or task box), Tab nests it under the item above, lined up with that item's text, and Shift+Tab brings it back out. Anywhere else, Tab still types two spaces.
• A numbered item you nest restarts at 1, because markdown doesn't count a nested 3. as a list. Brought back out, it continues the numbering above it.

Cmd+C just works. Why nano is different: nano leaves the mouse to the terminal, so the terminal does the selecting, and its Cmd+C copies that. writui handles the mouse itself (that's what makes everything clickable), so the terminal has no selection to copy, and it never passes Cmd+C on. Now anything you select in writui goes on the clipboard right away, so Cmd+C has nothing left to do. To protect what you'd copied before:

• typing, deleting or pasting over a selection puts your earlier clipboard back
• Cmd+V over a selection pastes what you'd copied before, not the selection itself
• moving away from a selection (a click, an arrow key, Esc) leaves it on the clipboard, as if you'd pressed Cmd+C

Cmd+V already worked: it's the terminal's paste, which writui reads. It only seemed broken because Cmd+C hadn't copied anything. The README's terminal config for passing Cmd+C on to writui is gone, since nothing needs setting up now.

One trade-off: "select, Cmd+C, then type over the selection" leaves the clipboard as it was before you selected. Cmd+X is the way to cut. Also, if the clipboard held an image, selecting text replaces it.

Evidence

• cargo test: 160 pass, including new tests for list continuation, nesting and renumbering, the styling levels, the Settings layout and clicks, and the clipboard rules (tests use a fake clipboard).
• cargo clippy --all-targets and cargo fmt --check: clean.
• Checked in the real app in tmux against a throwaway vault, using the real macOS clipboard (saved first, restored afterwards):

  clipboard set to "a link"
  double-click "milk"          → clipboard: milk
  Cmd+V (bracketed paste)       → line reads "- a link"; clipboard: a link
  select a word, arrow away     → the word stays on the clipboard
  

• The site demo (site/demo.tape) typed - before every bullet, which would now give - - …. I updated it to type the first bullet only and re-recorded it.

Try it

gh pr checkout 32 && cargo run

(Debug builds use .dev-data/, password writui-dev.) Try a list with Enter, Tab and Shift+Tab. Press s for Settings and switch Markdown styling. Then double-click a word in a post and press Cmd+C in Alacritty, and paste somewhere else.

Version: 0.19.0.

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[aakashns]

Minimal now keeps code green. Only the faded symbols and green code remain; everything else is plain. The Settings line now reads "Plain text, but code is green and markdown symbols faded." I updated the README, spec and decisions to match. Tests, clippy and fmt pass.

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[aakashns]

Updated:

• Settings: a bar on the left marks the selected setting, with no highlighted block. Settings with options show them all (on | off, full | minimal | off), with the current one highlighted. ←/→ or a click picks one, and Enter goes to the next.
• Minimal styling keeps italics as well as green code (no bold).

161 tests pass; clippy and fmt are clean. Checked in the real app: → picks the next option, and a click on "on" switches Nerd Font.