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Tasks side pane: restore tree rail lines (├/└/│) so containment reads #1660
Description
What
The tasks side column draws no rail lines. Children indent two cells under their parent (strings.Repeat(" ", depth), internal/tui3/planrail.go:234) with no ├/└ connector and no │ stem, so on a multi-level run the family shape does not read, and a child's title floats ~5 cells right of its parent's title with nothing anchoring it.
The connectors were removed in #1494 (e94bb4f6a), which replaced stem tracking (railEntryRows with stems []bool) with bare indentation — the file's own comment says the column's "forest is gone".
Wanted
Restore the tree rails in the side column, matching the shape the manual and the plandb CLI tree (internal/plandb/cli.go:1462) already draw:
- a child row hangs off
├(or└when it is the last child), joined to its parent; - intermediate rows of a multi-level family carry a
│stem; - titles align under the connector instead of floating.
Constraints
- Rails follow containment only. A dependency never re-parents a row (the law in
internal/tui3/c246_tree_test.go:13); blocked rows keep theirqueued · waits: <task>wording. - The base 2-space row prefix (
internal/tui3/task.go:4267) and the mark/spinner glyph stay; the connector lives in the lead, not in the row text.
Acceptance
- A two-level family in the pane draws
└/├connectors and│stems for middle rows. - No dependency-based re-parenting;
waits:wording unchanged. -
go test ./internal/tui3/...green with exact-text tests updated to the rail shape.
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Activity
santoshkumarradha commentedon Sep 28, 2026
Scope addition (owner request): bring back the task's number on the side rows
Per the owner's report, the pane's rows previously showed the task's number, which let a person identify which task a row was — which one of several similarly named tasks, and what its record maps to. Today the rows show only the mark glyph, the title, the program spelling and the age — no number (
app.railEntryRow,internal/tui3/task.go).Add it back as part of this same rail work:
#123) so a person can tell rows apart and map a row to its task record at a glance;—
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tui3: tree rails back in the tasks side column
tui3: tree rails back in the tasks side column